Today was our travel day to Bilbao. We caught the Flixbus three blocks from our apartment and had a comfortable five hour drive with a 40 minute lunch stop where we whipped out the leftovers from our market shopping and lunch experience the day before and had a lovely and relaxing picnic. The drive was long but comfortable. Our motor coach even had a toilet.
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| Let's hear it for leftovers. |
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| This duck was sooooo delish! |
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| Good hard sharp cheese. |
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| A milder cheese we purchased on our excursion with Kim our last full day in Bordeaux. |
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| Pretty nice picnic area at this rest stop. |
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| Our first late afternoon and evening in Bilbao, after dropping off our bags, was spent enjoying its 700 year old Old Quarter, gawking at the narrow apartments above the medieval streets. Many have been colorfully painted. |
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| Friday must be laundry day; lots of clothes hung on lines. |
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| The enclosed balconies allow light into what I presume could be an otherwise dark apartment. |
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| These connecting streets undulate like waves I'm guessing to drain rain water into the main streets. |
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| Cheesy fries. Hadn't eaten in 6 hours so this works. |
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| This artist had quite an audience in the square at the heart of the Old Quarter. He was amazing. |
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He reminds me of Animal from
"The Muppets".
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| The Puente del Ayuntamiento Bridge spans the Nervion River to Bilbao's City Hall. |
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| Bilbao's City Hall is relatively new, 1892. |
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| Looking up river to the Old Quarter. As you can see it was a lovely early fall evening. Today's high was 82F (27C), but we spent the hottest part of the day on a bus in route here, so by the time we were exploring the medieval Old Quarter and strolling along the river, it was a pleasant 70ish (21). |
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| A stop on the pilgrimage. |
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