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The sun-filled leafy plaza outside the Church of Sant Felip Neri, where Gaudi came to pray every day.
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Ancient and modern in the Barri Gotic.
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Good morning, Barcelona! Starting my culinary walking tour with a glass of cava and delicious botifarra sausage on a warm baguette.
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Catalan pride. And smoking.
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A plaque in the Gracia neighborhood commemorating an impressive castel last summer- the Catalan human tower.
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Home of the bomba croquet. A meat filled potato croquet in a pool of spicy sauce topped with a dollop of garlic aioli.
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Inviting
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My farewell meal in Spain was my regular cafe con leche but with a French raisin snail, just like my last breakfast in Paris. I will return!
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The neighboring cathedral.
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The Royal Palace is apparently the largest palace in Europe.
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One of the local utility covers I liked so much.
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Before leaving Spain, I took a quick morning walk around Madrid to see the Royal Palace.
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Sad to say goodbye to Donostia. I'll be back!
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Toasts and nests and glowing orbs and cones. It was overwhelming and beautiful. I can't imagine how they achieve that consistency of quality and precision at that high quantity.
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Sea urchins filled with a seafood cream!
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Bar Zeruko. My last pintxo bar before leaving the city, and it was the most impressive. The bar was lined with 40 (!!) plates of the most beautiful little artworks. I could have eaten there for days. I had 3 delicious basic pintxos, along with txakoli.
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The creamy crispy perfect Bric de Bacalao at Bar Haizea.
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These banners were seen around town because Donostia-San Sebastian was proudly chosen as the EU Cultural Capitol for 2016.
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No wonder this was a Victorian royal beach resort.
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By far the best cheesecake I've ever eaten, at La Viña. We were given the recipe on the tour so I'll have to try making it soon.
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The entrance to one of the prestigious Basque gastronomy clubs (txoko).
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Constitution Plaza used to host bull fights and the city owned everyone's balconies, which still are numbered consecutively. So a wealthy stranger paid the city to watch the bull fight from your balcony while you peeped over their shoulder.
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This was ethereal and delicious. A bowl of sliced green beans topped with potato foam, sliced cod, and black olive vinaigrette.
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I went on a fantastic pintxos hunting tour, where we visited six pintxo bars, all of which were delicious. Two of my favorite dishes were at Casa Urola Jatetxea (Restaurant). This was a scallop with its roe in a cod cream. Incredibly good!
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Bravely smiling at Bar Txepetxa, which is dedicated exclusively and lovingly to anchovies. I had two on slices of bread: one topped with a creamy crab sauce, and the other topped with a blueberry sauce of all things. I'm still standing.
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One of the many fascinating things about the Basque language is that they even have their own font, which you see on many business signs.
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Basque guindilla peppers
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Jesus watches over San Sebastian from the top of Monte Urgull.
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A handsome black slug!
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The water! Those mountains!
