Rioja is in the North Eastern portion of Spain. It is the most famous region of Spain for wine - it's basically the Napa of Spain, though they'd be insulted by such a comparison. They're also smack in the middle of Basque Country (Pais Vasco), which I am quickly falling in love with.
Today we are staying at the winery: Marques de Riscal. Keeping in tradition with Bilbao, we're still on our Frank Gehry kick. Only this time, we're staying in an actual building designed by him.
After a rather harrowing drive through the most amazing (but scary) Basque mountains (we were extremely lost), we finally managed to navigate ourselves (after hamfistedly asking for directions... they don't speak much Castillian up here, and my Basque is non-existant) - to the hotel. It was worth the effort. I am now comfortably relaxed, about two bottles of Tempranillo in. I ain't goin' anywhere for the next 24+ hours.
Man, I love Spain.
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