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September 30, 2006
San Sebastian (Donostia)
Had an absolute blast for the whole week in San Sebastian, it's such a party town. In the beginning I hesitated to book more than 3 nights because I didn't know what to expect. I was thinking perhaps going to Biarritz then back to Vitoria to catch the plane if San Sebastian turn out to be a hole. I just want to surf since I don't think I'll be surfing anytime soon.
As it turned out there weren't much of a surf in San Sebastian, the waves were small but at least they were clean and some were makeable. There were much talk about the incoming swell on Wednesday, but it never arrived. Become friends with the friendly people on the surf school where you can rent boards, one time they give me free board rent because the waves were so small.
I was also lucky that the San Sebastian International Film Festival was on. This apparently (a girl in my dorm told me, she works for Sofia Film Festival and she was there for the film festival) either the second or third biggest film festival in Europe after Cannes and Venice. So I've also been watching some really good movies in the past week. Oh and I did a bit of celebrity spotting as well on the red carpet.
Also San Sebastian's old town boasted perhaps the highest concentration of bars per square metre in entire Spain (LP told me), maybe even Europe. Plus we had some really awesome group going in the hostel.
All these are deadly combination. So my typical day for the week look like this: wake up felling groggy from the night before, surf, lie on the beach for a while, more surf sometime, watch an awesome movie, bar hopping. Repeat for 4 days in a row ...
This morning I had the biggest headache in my life, and my 1.5 hour bus ride to Vitoria was excruciating. My head pounding and stomach feeling funny. I went all out last night since I knew I wasn't going to hit the surf and that will be my closing party for this travel. This saturday night in Vitoria will be a quite one I think.
And that's it. Tomorrow I will fly to London and that will be the end of the past 4 months of travel.
Posted by vhadiant at September 30, 2006 07:25 PM
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