Last days in Spain

Yesterday was again such a long day that I didn't have any time to write. Today we've got a free afternoon, so I can tell you about the places we have visited during the past two days.

It took me about 30 minutes to upload all the photos :( But now I can finally tell you about yesterday.

When we were having breakfast, there was a strange accident in front of the hotel. One of the lamp posts fell over and hit two cars. Luckily, nobody got hurt.

 We went to San Sebastian yesterday. It's a beautiful beach town near the French border. We walked on the beach and enjoyed the sun.

As I was staring at the blue sea and listening to the waves, I remembered all the TEA fellows I met in Boone. I miss y'all :(

It was sunny and pretty warm - about 17 degrees in the sun. You can never see anything like that in November in Estonia. And we were really surprised to see some people swimming in the sea.

A huge statue of Christ gazing over the city and its people.

We also visited the Palacio del Mar (Aquarium) and learned about the life of Basque people who have always been keen fishermen and whale hunters (I felt really sorry for the whales, though).

They have a tunnel that goes through the huge fish tank. We could see different sharks, turtles, fish and other sea creatures. The students loved chasing the sharks.

Me enjoying the sunny weather. I actually got a bit sunburnt.

After the visit to the Aquarium we had lunch in a small cafe where they offered different kind of pintxos. As San Sebastian is very close to the French border, they also offered frog legs. I can't understand how people can eat something that disgusting.

Would you like a bite?

We had lunch at the main square that was used as a bullring years ago. The appartments on the square had numbers on them because in the past they were used for watching bullfighting.

After our visit to San Sebastian we went to a big shopping center in Vitoria. We had lots of trouble getting back to the hotel but we finally managed to make it on time for the dinner.

Here are all our teachers - Onur from Turkey, Monica from Spain, Marek and Linda and me from Estonia, Birnur from Turkey, Begoña from Spain and Fatma from Turkey.

Today we went to see the Salt Valley of Añana This was something completely new for me, I had never thought that salt could be made somewhere far from sea.

Salt Valley of Añana

We also visited a medieval castle but weren't able to enjoy the visit that much because it was awfully cold in the castle.

The Turkish group left a couple of hours ago. We're going to have dinner at 8.30 pm so I thought I'll sleep a bit as I got to bed really late yesterday. We're leaving at noon tomorrow. I'm not particularly happy about the fact that there are going to be two flights again as I've caught cold but I'll try to manage somehow.

Hugs and kisses to y'all. Take care :)