I am ashamed that Spanish people are disrespectfull to Basque but I must say im a little affended by them. I mean in general Basques want nothing to do with me and my country(Spain) and I find that insulting.

I'm REALLY looking forward to seeing País Vasco for myself for the first time in April!!!

Speaking of Pais Vasco the February, 2003 edition of Condé Nast Traveler magazine, page 142, had a full page, glorious photograph from a room of the Hotel de Londres y de Inglaterra. It shows the view from room 322 of the beautiful Playa de la Concha in San Sebastian (Donostia in Basque). Here's a photo of the Hotel!


The view in the photo is truly stunning, facing the beach! The article is brief, a few paragraphs, the photo takes up most of the page. The Hotel is located at 2 Zubieta, San Sebastian 20007. Tel: 34-943-4407-70. Rates doubles range from 120 to 180.
Here is the hotel's Web site

MadridMan, I cannot wait for your report of Pais Vasco. My grandmother told me that she and her sisters spent part of the Summer months in San Sebastian. She said that in the 1920's it was the place to go in Spain in the summers, it had been made famous in the 1880's by Queen Maria Christina, who put in a casino, now the City Hall. The Queen was probably tring to emulate the success of Nice and Monaco during the Belle Epoque!

I was in the Basque Country in September last year and visited Bilbao (where I was based) Santander, San Sebastian and Vitoria. It was wonderful. On approaching the Basque coast on the flight from London the view was stunning; lots of steep hills and deep green valleys. I was wondering where we were going to land as the didn't seem to be anywhere flat enough for an airport! San Sebastian and Santander were both lovely with great beaches and both are very elegant and classy resorts. Vitoria was nice with a beautiful square near the station and a lovely medieval quarter. Apparently the tapas in San Sebastian are the best in the country.

Though Santander is a beautiful as San Sebastian and has the same northish style, it doesn't belong to the Basque Country. It is the capital of Cantabria

Fernando

Thanks Fernando, I'd forgotten that:) BTW, can anyone tell me how to add photos to the postings? I see Booklady's done so a little bit further up.

Hi Bricamb,

It's simple. Place your pointer on the image you wish to transfer ( or copy), then right click on your mouse, a menu appears, click on the action that says "properties", then a screen appears and it will give you the propreties of the image including the URL address of the image. You then copy that URL address.

Then when you post at MasdridMan's, at the bottom you will see a button named IMAGE. Push it and a screen will pop up, there you paste the URL of the image and that's all there is to it!

Enjoy!

My parents want to go to the Basque region next time we go to Spain I must say it is exciting but do you guys think we should keep the we are from Madrid saying down Any ways is it cooled up there during summer too.

Q: I wouldn't worry too much about divulging your big Madrileño secret in Bilbao. Half the city isn't from Euskadi either...and tourism is tourism.

Those who would seek to damage that tourism are the ones who go around with tales of horror having beset the out-of-towner who let slip that they were in from out of town. Of course the old M or B license plates were a dead giveaway. What most people fail to remember is that the regional castellano dialect is a "deader" giveaway.

Go to Bilbao and enjoy...!!!