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The Basque Country

Posted by paulymx | 13th November 2009

The next morning we were up and out by 8.30am. During the night a mist had settled over the land and it didn’t dissipate until well after 10. It was so dense that trucks and cars on the motorway were simply swallowed up in front of us. The morning’s drive was a little bit tense.

We were in a bit of a quandary about our next destination. We were unsure whether to go to Bilbao to see the Guggenheim Art Museum or the seaside resort town of San Sebastian. We decided to head towards Bilbao as it was slightly closer to us than San Sebastian. The drive though took us right through the heartland of old Castile & Leon and although we didn’t plan on making any detours we ended up popping into Leon for lunch. Leon was one of the many old Spanish kingdoms and the city has a few very old monuments from its glory days in the 10th century. Sadly for Leon it was merged with the Kingdom of Castile and it kind of lost its

Continued | Paul & Shelly's European Vacation 2009

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