Trip to Bilbao
This Friday I went with 6 friends to the town of Bilboa. It was a two hour bus ride to the North in the heart of basque country. The Gugenheim museum is in this town and that´s about it.
I went to Teff from Ecuador, Emanuel from Germany, Aliah from Canada, Kath from New York, Fernanda from Bolivia, and Vanessa who is another german girl - Emanuels friend. It was a diverse group of people and we only wanted to get a Hostel for friday night. THis means we had to stay up all night on Saturday and take the 8 30am bus home on Sunday. It was a nice plan, but difficult.
We got there around 6 on Friday and walked forever to the museum. The Guggenheim museum has amazing architecture and is all silver and it is nuts. The creator also made the Wisemen art center in the cities near the u of m. The museum was closed but we went in for a tour of the building. We saw no art but the video about the guy was cool. THe creator is nuts but what artists aren´t.
After leaving we got some grub and tried to find out hostel. This city. Bilbao, has about 400,000 people so it is quite large. There are mountains around it and it is very green cause it rains a lot. It is very close to the coast. While walking to our hostel we had to go thru the town and the stores seemed much nicer there and they had really cool clothes styles. THe people looked very different because basque people inhanbit this town. THey are very dark and have the dark hair.
We made it to our hostel and settled in. Our hostel was really nice and my friends said it wasn´t like the typical hostel. I wouldn´t know. It had a shared bath and way to many blankets on the bed. I heard about bed bugs but i survived. The girls room was harrassed during the night but they were fine. It was on the 5th floor and it smelled aweful climbing these stairs but the place was nice and we paid 16 € each for the night.
AFter getting beautiful we went out on the town... not really though. We walked around and it was only 12 so no one really is out yet. They go out around 2 am and we arent that cool. We ate some pinchos and I had these weird ones. One had anchovies and i ate it but it was nasty. I make myself integrate these cultural differences in my life. After eating that weird meal i was full. We went to some bars but we were all kind of boring and went to bed around 2ish. Since we were in the old part I think we missed out on the nice clubs and bars. It was a nice experience though. All of our area was in Basque so we couldnt read anything and the people have a distinct look of them.
The next day we slept till 11 cause we knew we didnt have a room to sleep in the next night. We all showered and said goodbye to shelter and got lunch. We all ate huge sandwiches, but teff from ecuador decided that she needs to get something more Spanish. They were good and only 6 € for a sandwich and coffee. The coffee tastes better here. We then got some candy at the store like little kids and walked around. It was almost siesta time and we went to a museum which had works from Picasso, Monet, Goya, Dali and Greco. There were tons of other artists but Randolph doesn´t place much emphasis on art lol. My friends knew a lot so I get some nice tours.
We left there are all got huge bottles of water and relaxed for a long time maybe 3 hrs in the park. Kath and I - the fat americans as we call it- went to the market and got these massive pastries with creme inside. Picture a swiss cake roll times 10. It was only 1 € so we ate them. The non americans made fun of us but 5 minutes later they were eating one.. talk about hipocrits. The parks are always full of old people and dogs so we get looked at all day. Especially while scarfing down these massive pastries.
We then walked to our hostel and got our stuff and checked out. We had other friends from school staying in town and they let us put our bags in the place until later. The owner of the hostel got really bad, which is understandable, but we are young so hey. We then ate at burger kind... not my choice and walked around and went out that night.
We walked around the old city again but it was scary. We got to this plaza and there were tons of police wearing masks and holding shields. They all got scared but teff is from ecuador which makes her immune to this stuff and I didn´t care. There wasa protest i guess cause the basques are fighting for independence or just violence in my opinion. We left right away cause it was a scary thing to see all these armed police with masques on. While leaving the plaza the police stuck this old guy and his wife, but we didn´t know why. I am glad we don´t have these separations. This country is so divided it is terrible.
We got over the little riot and hung out in the park and played weird games. We then went to a club- which is not my choice cause clubs are expensive and evil.
On our way back from this club we were harrassed by people from Spain and they kept following us. It was 3 in the morning so it is hard to meet nice caring people. They kept following us and we finally ditched them. We walked a lot then and got to the bus station aroubnd 5 ish and relaxed and had some nice 5 in the morning talks. I didn´t know a lot about some of the people we traveld with but traveling brings out the best of us haha. We got on the bus then at 8 30. We looked really good. We got back in pamplona at 10 and all walked together thru the park and back to our pisos.
It was a nice trip, but expensive to do it all. The bus tickets were only 22€ but everything else adds up quickly. I just have to save more money this week because we are traveling to Zaragoza for this huge festival. We don´t have class friday so it will be nice.
I went to Teff from Ecuador, Emanuel from Germany, Aliah from Canada, Kath from New York, Fernanda from Bolivia, and Vanessa who is another german girl - Emanuels friend. It was a diverse group of people and we only wanted to get a Hostel for friday night. THis means we had to stay up all night on Saturday and take the 8 30am bus home on Sunday. It was a nice plan, but difficult.
We got there around 6 on Friday and walked forever to the museum. The Guggenheim museum has amazing architecture and is all silver and it is nuts. The creator also made the Wisemen art center in the cities near the u of m. The museum was closed but we went in for a tour of the building. We saw no art but the video about the guy was cool. THe creator is nuts but what artists aren´t.
After leaving we got some grub and tried to find out hostel. This city. Bilbao, has about 400,000 people so it is quite large. There are mountains around it and it is very green cause it rains a lot. It is very close to the coast. While walking to our hostel we had to go thru the town and the stores seemed much nicer there and they had really cool clothes styles. THe people looked very different because basque people inhanbit this town. THey are very dark and have the dark hair.
We made it to our hostel and settled in. Our hostel was really nice and my friends said it wasn´t like the typical hostel. I wouldn´t know. It had a shared bath and way to many blankets on the bed. I heard about bed bugs but i survived. The girls room was harrassed during the night but they were fine. It was on the 5th floor and it smelled aweful climbing these stairs but the place was nice and we paid 16 € each for the night.
AFter getting beautiful we went out on the town... not really though. We walked around and it was only 12 so no one really is out yet. They go out around 2 am and we arent that cool. We ate some pinchos and I had these weird ones. One had anchovies and i ate it but it was nasty. I make myself integrate these cultural differences in my life. After eating that weird meal i was full. We went to some bars but we were all kind of boring and went to bed around 2ish. Since we were in the old part I think we missed out on the nice clubs and bars. It was a nice experience though. All of our area was in Basque so we couldnt read anything and the people have a distinct look of them.
The next day we slept till 11 cause we knew we didnt have a room to sleep in the next night. We all showered and said goodbye to shelter and got lunch. We all ate huge sandwiches, but teff from ecuador decided that she needs to get something more Spanish. They were good and only 6 € for a sandwich and coffee. The coffee tastes better here. We then got some candy at the store like little kids and walked around. It was almost siesta time and we went to a museum which had works from Picasso, Monet, Goya, Dali and Greco. There were tons of other artists but Randolph doesn´t place much emphasis on art lol. My friends knew a lot so I get some nice tours.
We left there are all got huge bottles of water and relaxed for a long time maybe 3 hrs in the park. Kath and I - the fat americans as we call it- went to the market and got these massive pastries with creme inside. Picture a swiss cake roll times 10. It was only 1 € so we ate them. The non americans made fun of us but 5 minutes later they were eating one.. talk about hipocrits. The parks are always full of old people and dogs so we get looked at all day. Especially while scarfing down these massive pastries.
We then walked to our hostel and got our stuff and checked out. We had other friends from school staying in town and they let us put our bags in the place until later. The owner of the hostel got really bad, which is understandable, but we are young so hey. We then ate at burger kind... not my choice and walked around and went out that night.
We walked around the old city again but it was scary. We got to this plaza and there were tons of police wearing masks and holding shields. They all got scared but teff is from ecuador which makes her immune to this stuff and I didn´t care. There wasa protest i guess cause the basques are fighting for independence or just violence in my opinion. We left right away cause it was a scary thing to see all these armed police with masques on. While leaving the plaza the police stuck this old guy and his wife, but we didn´t know why. I am glad we don´t have these separations. This country is so divided it is terrible.
We got over the little riot and hung out in the park and played weird games. We then went to a club- which is not my choice cause clubs are expensive and evil.
On our way back from this club we were harrassed by people from Spain and they kept following us. It was 3 in the morning so it is hard to meet nice caring people. They kept following us and we finally ditched them. We walked a lot then and got to the bus station aroubnd 5 ish and relaxed and had some nice 5 in the morning talks. I didn´t know a lot about some of the people we traveld with but traveling brings out the best of us haha. We got on the bus then at 8 30. We looked really good. We got back in pamplona at 10 and all walked together thru the park and back to our pisos.
It was a nice trip, but expensive to do it all. The bus tickets were only 22€ but everything else adds up quickly. I just have to save more money this week because we are traveling to Zaragoza for this huge festival. We don´t have class friday so it will be nice.
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