San Sebastian Memories

Just a rapid fire list of memories from our quick trip to San Sebastian this May 12-16.

• Berasetegui
• Foie, eel, apple, and onion sauce
• Ed dressed in jeans and a t-shirt, a mohawk, and mustache
• Luke deciding he wanted to wander around the restaurant
• Asking the chef to make Luke a puree (and getting a culinary dish that Luke puckered his face upon tasting)
• Vigonier that smelled like Luke's diaper
• Taryn almost yacking up the chef's signature dish and not being able to finish other fish dishes, causing a stir from the waiters
• Hake jowls
• Fried sole
• San Sebastian
• Luke face planting into the beach and emerging with sand all over his face
• Kalimotxo in the plaza at 11 pm while feeding Luke
• Potato sticks, poached egg, aioli pintxo
• Climbing to the top of the hill overlooking the city
• Jamon iberico - la paleta
• Mugaritz
• Hot stones
• Hot sommelier
• Coffee in the shade
• Bilbao
• Guggenheim!
• Churros, freshly fried, with hot chocolate
• Parking lots electronically track when a spot is taken so you can scan down an entire row to look for a green light signaling a free spot.
• Plaza Nueva as a playground, with parents standing around sipping wine and chatting, while the kids kicked soccer balls or jumped rope.
• Street party all over...except it's not a special occasion; just Friday.
• Luke crying desperately as we get lost trying to leave the city
• Pamplona
• Taryn trying desperately to figure out 5 important, non-obvious turns to get us from the highway to Etxauri
• Etxauri climbing!
• Taryn making it up a climb
• Ed thinking he was on a 6a when he was on a 7a+
• Searching for the orange bull shirt in vain in the few souvenir stores open
• Mari Jesus bar - great food, chill atmosphere, lots of kids around
• Comments from locals on Luke
• "Que moreno"
• "Que guapo"
• "Que bonito"
• Comments from locals on Ed's mustache/mohawk