After an early morning run to the beach we packed the car and headed across the boarder to Spain.
SPAIN
Our first stop in Spain was San Sabastin were we found a camp site 6km out of town.....unfortunatly much too hilly to ride our bikes into town, so we took advantage of the very cheap bus and regular bus service.
The Basque cuisine is famous within Spain especialy there Pintxos. San Sabastians Old Quarter is well known for having the best Pintxos in Spain.
How To Eat Pintxos (Tapas)
Entering a Tapas bar can be an exciting but dunting experince if you are not familiar. With out being able to speak spanish the Tapas bar can be a confusing experince as Tom and I found out.
The first step is to decide what you would like to drink. The drinks avavlabile are ussaly writen on a board. Ask the bar man for you drink of chose then, time to eat.
If you wish to eat a few tapas, ask the barman for a plate, then take which ever tapas looks good. the confusing thing with tapas is there are no prices you will pay between about €2-4 each for cold tapas and around €5-6 for warm tapas. Warm Tapas must be ordered with the bar man who will heat it up or cook it for you. There is usaly a hot tapas menu on the wall. At some bars the prices are all the same for each tapas and others charge different prices for different pieces.When you have finished eating and drinking you ask the barman for the bill, and you have to tell him what you have had to drink or eaten or how many pieces depending on how the bar is run.
The tradition is not to eat too many pinox at the one bar, but to move on to another bar to enjoy the atmospher and some new flovours. Traditionally locals would start at Pintox bars in the early evening for a light snak and drink before going out to a resturant for dinner.
