San Sebastian, Spain
Saturday, June 17, 2006
We take a 8.5hr train north to the coast of Spain. Totally worth it. We hadnt booked anything till the night before and got lucky finding a small place called ¨olgas place¨¨. So we get off the train and its plus 40 outside...just insane heat. And the streets and everything is soooooo clean. I had read the citys people kind of police the area and whatnot, but they actually scrub the sidewalks! After a bit of seacrhing we found our place...amazing. A nice cozy apartment type hostel....we stayed with 2 other canadians from t.o our first night...they were cool. San Sebastian is sooo safe too, we walk around at night, day whenever and dont worry about being mugged. Coming from
Barcelona it was a whole new world. That night it was plus 30 at midnight...insane...so we went out for some drinks. This place apparently invented the word bar hopping...there are 200 bars in 3 adjacent streets!! They want you business really bad to so they are constantly stuffing flyers in your face for 2 for 1 drinks and free shots. Needless to say we ahd a blast together..dancing etc. One bar gives you free hats with every pint of heineken so I got a couple. The next day I was feeling the effects of the night before!! I was hurting...I also seemed to come down with a virus...so at times felt sick to my stomach. We went to walk around but I just couldnt...so I had to go nap. Christine went shopping etc...haha. That night I took it easy and tried to sleep off my sickness. They have this huge mountain with a statue on it, its covered in vegetatian, we hiked to the top saw a great view of the beaches. San Sebastian has the most amazing beaches...google it. Its a GIGANTIC crescent beach that is gorgeous. We went down and hung out on the beach for a bit but the heat and sun was just too intense. That didnt seem to stop the other 3000 people out there though. Topless girls were abound. That night we had 3 new Canadian Divas show up in our room from north Van. They were the typcal girls that I hate so dearly. We were all going to go out that ngiht....buttttt they took 2.5hrs longer than everyone else to get ready1 Needless to say everyone was pissed...then we got to the bar and they just ditched! haha. DIdnt really bother me to much as I didnt even want to see them anyways. That night we came home a tad early, christine went to bed and I went off to a pay phone to listen to the oilers game (thanks again dad)...anyways apparently (because christine was still in the room)..they came in saying how they were happy we wernt there...haha...then they sawI wasnt there and started talking shit about how I mustve stayed out and partied while sending my girlfriend home and how that was fucked up. Christine was furious, but held it in. Anyways..that was our sign to take off and although we didnt want to leave San Sebastian we were happy to get away from those girls.
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