Now a bit of culture...

Thursday 19th May

Nomad in San Sebastian

Now in Getxco, which is at the mouth of the river going up to Bilbao.   Tomorrow we become culture vultures (off with the crocs/flipflops and on with the proper shoes) and head to the Guggenheim, a good lunch and a walk around the old town.   On the way here we spent last night at Getaria - small fishing village - and ate the best fish I have ever tasted roasted on open fires.   After we had dropped anchor the locals laid on some serious entertainment in the way of girls rowing races - 12 in a boat.    We had a lunch stop yesterday at San Sebastian which is lovely - Rich tried to winkle his way into the posh yacht club there, but got severely reprimanded by a very fierce signora - turned out he was trying to go in through the ladies changing rooms.    Our Spanish is still virtually non-existent and is matched by most Spaniards command of English.  We have learnt that when we say our boat is a ‘malo’ they think our boat is ‘bad’.  Handwaving and gesticulation seems to work well enough though.