Bilbao might be the place that I want to end up for the rest of my life. I realize that I say that about every place I get back from, but it was perfect! It had the french architecture that I LOVED in paris but people speak spanish!!!!!Its a perfect combination! I really do love everywhere we've been though, I don't have anything bad to say about any of the places we've traveled to this semester.
So the first day we got there it was pretty rainy, but it was ok. It made everything look so much greener, the amount of green here was incredible. I miss green. My impression of the city of Bilbao was immediately one of excitement. I was pumped to be on another vacation, but i was pumped to check out the Basque country. The next day we took a bus to the town of Guernica, the place that Picasso's painting was based off of. You would never know that during the civil war it was basically demolished in some parts. Its beautiful. I don't know how anyone could think to bombard such a place. It was even more beautiful with the sunny day, it was perfect. From there were drove to a tiny tiny town named Oma and climbed a mountain to find the Painted Forest. Which, was pretty cool. Theres just this section really hidden on the mountain where over 500 trees have different paintings on them. And it depends on how you view the tree too, like at what angle you look at the painting, because it could line up with other paintings on other trees to make other pitures. Like people running, or eyes, it was really really cool. After we climbed down we ate and the visited another little fishing town and then headed back to Bilbao.
The next day we went to the Guggenheim Museum...wierdest museum i've ever been to. It was cool, there was this one thing that was a HUGE hull of a ship that they dredged out of the ocean, and then broke porcelain plates all around it and in it, probably my favorite, there was also an exhibit by the same artist that made a lot of cool works with gun powder!! Very interesting. I'll remember what they all looked like perfectly, they were all just really different and awesome.
Next day we went to San Sebastien, absolutely breath taking! We climbed another mountain and could see most of the city. Then we had some free time to walk around and eat some lunch, then we all got back together to climb another mountain, but at the top there was a surprise little amusement park complete with bumper cars, flume, and haunted house. We had a really good time just chillin on the top of a mountain. It was a good way to just sort of end a great day. After that we got some pinchos and went back to Bilbao. It was nice to be able to just chill out and get on a bus to just go back and crash. It was sad the next day though, it was our last day on our last excursion.
We got back to Granada last night around 11:45ish, not too late, but then I got up for class this morning at 7:30am...boo!!
Now the next time I get on a plane is to go home in 19 days...it'll be my last time flying out of Spain for a while...I'm gonna miss it.
but i miss YOU so much!! come back to me, my dearest sister!
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