Today the temps reached almost 20 (which is almost 70 for you Fahrenheit lovers), so we took a trip to Mundaka, a town about an hour from Bilbao by train.
I am happy to say I got sunburned in February. OK, now I need to get over that and start wearing sunscreen every day. But I digress.
The pros:
-Mundaka has one of the longest left-breaking waves in the world, which makes it really cool to watch the surfers, especially since there was a big swell today
-The town is the epitome of what a Basque seaside town should look like. Little old men in berets, charming buildings, ETA graffiti...the whole 9 yards
The cons:
-At the particular train station we got off at, there was no discernible beach (that we found, according to a local source, we may have just missed it) where you could do stereotypical beach activities, i.e., lay out, play football, watch the surfers.
As my friend Anna would say..."You win some, you lose most."
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| The swell and the surfers |
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| Basque architecture, complete with the "Send the Basque Prisoners Home" Flag |
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| Amy on our grassy knoll that most definitely was not a beach |
Originally published 2.5.11
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