Family Sabbatical TravelSpain The time came to leave Barcelona and head into real Spain for some days. We began our trip by flying to Bilbao where we were met by this message at the airport ../../../Sabbat/Pics/07.14.00BilbaoAndSantillianaDelMar//P7140001 These people ../../../Sabbat/Pics/07.14.00BilbaoAndSantillianaDelMar//P7140002 were nice enough to give us this car ../../../Sabbat/Pics/07.14.00BilbaoAndSantillianaDelMar//P7140003 so that we could head to this main event ../../../Sabbat/Pics/07.14.00BilbaoAndSantillianaDelMar//P7140024 where from this car park ../../../Sabbat/Pics/07.14.00BilbaoAndSantillianaDelMar//P7140005 we could catch our first view ../../../Sabbat/Pics/07.14.00BilbaoAndSantillianaDelMar//P7140004 of a remarkable building. We also enjoyed the trilingual nature of things with the Basque translations of all of the signs.

We walked up these steps ../../../Sabbat/Pics/07.14.00BilbaoAndSantillianaDelMar//P7140006 to be greeted by this puppy dog ../../../Sabbat/Pics/07.14.00BilbaoAndSantillianaDelMar//P7140007 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/07.14.00BilbaoAndSantillianaDelMar//P7140009 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/07.14.00BilbaoAndSantillianaDelMar//P7140012 and then zoomed in ../../../Sabbat/Pics/07.14.00BilbaoAndSantillianaDelMar//P7140008 and even further ../../../Sabbat/Pics/07.14.00BilbaoAndSantillianaDelMar//P7140010 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/07.14.00BilbaoAndSantillianaDelMar//P7140027 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/07.14.00BilbaoAndSantillianaDelMar//P7140028 to try and figure it out.

Next we walked down the neighboring bridge ../../../Sabbat/Pics/07.14.00BilbaoAndSantillianaDelMar//P7140011 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/07.14.00BilbaoAndSantillianaDelMar//P7140013 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/07.14.00BilbaoAndSantillianaDelMar//P7140014 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/07.14.00BilbaoAndSantillianaDelMar//P7140015 to try and absorb the design of the museum. The lines and pieces were remarkable ../../../Sabbat/Pics/07.14.00BilbaoAndSantillianaDelMar//P7140016 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/07.14.00BilbaoAndSantillianaDelMar//P7140017 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/07.14.00BilbaoAndSantillianaDelMar//P7140018 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/07.14.00BilbaoAndSantillianaDelMar//P7140019 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/07.14.00BilbaoAndSantillianaDelMar//P7140021 as was the interaction with the river ../../../Sabbat/Pics/07.14.00BilbaoAndSantillianaDelMar//P7140020 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/07.14.00BilbaoAndSantillianaDelMar//P7140023 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/07.14.00BilbaoAndSantillianaDelMar//P7140025 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/07.14.00BilbaoAndSantillianaDelMar//P7140026 not to mention the cafe ../../../Sabbat/Pics/07.14.00BilbaoAndSantillianaDelMar//P7140022 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/07.14.00BilbaoAndSantillianaDelMar//P7140029

Although they wouldn't let us take photos inside the museum, we did manage to get this picture inside the men's room ../../../Sabbat/Pics/07.14.00BilbaoAndSantillianaDelMar//P7140030 and our obligatory phone booth picture ../../../Sabbat/Pics/07.14.00BilbaoAndSantillianaDelMar//P7140031

We fought the traffic out of Bilbao and then the maps into Santillana del Mar (town of 3 lies – not a holy place, not flat and not on the water) where we had a dinner of minestrone ../../../Sabbat/Pics/07.14.00BilbaoAndSantillianaDelMar//P7140032 tortilla (aka potato omelet) ../../../Sabbat/Pics/07.14.00BilbaoAndSantillianaDelMar//P7140033 pimento rellenos ../../../Sabbat/Pics/07.14.00BilbaoAndSantillianaDelMar//P7140034 shrimp ../../../Sabbat/Pics/07.14.00BilbaoAndSantillianaDelMar//P7140035 green beans ../../../Sabbat/Pics/07.14.00BilbaoAndSantillianaDelMar//P7140036 and chicken ../../../Sabbat/Pics/07.14.00BilbaoAndSantillianaDelMar//P7140038 that kept Benjamin going at a fast rate ../../../Sabbat/Pics/07.14.00BilbaoAndSantillianaDelMar//P7140037 All of the food served by this waitress ../../../Sabbat/Pics/07.14.00BilbaoAndSantillianaDelMar//P7140044 made us quite happy ../../../Sabbat/Pics/07.14.00BilbaoAndSantillianaDelMar//P7140039 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/07.14.00BilbaoAndSantillianaDelMar//P7140040 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/07.14.00BilbaoAndSantillianaDelMar//P7140041 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/07.14.00BilbaoAndSantillianaDelMar//P7140042 ../../../Sabbat/Pics/07.14.00BilbaoAndSantillianaDelMar//P7140043 but didn't keep us from taking this unintelligible picture ../../../Sabbat/Pics/07.14.00BilbaoAndSantillianaDelMar//P7140045 which we'll try to use in our Santillana By Blur series.