Quick trip to San Sabastian

I have a couple of days holiday I have to use. So I took Friday off and we did a quick trip to San Sebastián in Spain. It is a bit over two hours away, we have been meaning to go for ages.

It is a lovely place with lots of excellent food and drink.

It is in the Basque Country, so they have Pintxos not tapas. Similar though.

The variety is amazing and there are hundreds of tiny little bars that vie with each other to be the best. The idea is to have a drink and a couple of Pintxos at each place, and then move on. You can't see from this photo how amazing they look, at this place we had a nido de bolete, which was a penny bun mushroom, fried in butter and served in a crispy potato nest with a quails egg on top. Was DELICIOUS! We also had a cheese cake at Las Vina which was sooooo amazing, on the whole I prefer savory, but this was the best desert EVER!

They have a local wine called Txacoli which is very lightly fizzy. Delicious also.

The Atlantic surf was very cold looking, quite a few surfers out despite that.

This is in the patisserie, yes these seem to be fish made out of sweet pastry there on the bottom!

The sea air is bracing for a hangover! It wears the dog out really well, and we had a great couple of days! The hotel was lovely too (yes they officially allow dogs!).

We left the dog alone in the hotel room while we went out eating Pintxos and drinking Txacoli, Rioja, and beer. Bit stressful as she had spent some time chewing everything she could lay her teeth on before we went out. But luckily she seems to deactivate when we go out and leave her. The room survived!