Our stop in san Sebastian was very short and wet. It wasn’t actually raining when we arrived, or when we left. Our original plan was to walk as a group down to the beach and old town. As we set off down a main road and large roundabout we decided to give it a miss and head back to the hotel for waterproofs, a good job we did because minutes latter it did start to rain.
Our hotel was right by the river and to get to the old town we just walked along the side of the river towards the sea.The top floor of the hotel gave quite a good view of the river, the main new town being on the far side. Most of the bridges over the river are modern but one of them nearer the mouth is older and quite ornate.
We wandered round the old town stopping in a bar for a drink, we would return there latter to eat, while we were there the rain eased and we were on our way again. We visited the old market now mainly retail but the old bidding clock is still there from when things were auctioned off and it doesn’t look that old.
Back outside and a walk through the gardens and down to above the beach, it was probably a 6mt drop to the beach and the chap doing the sand drawings had a cloth spread out to catch the coins.
Not sure what this building was but it faced the gardens and was at 90° to the beach.
You can see what the weather was like by the pavements so we took refuge in the church which was half way back to our hotel.
The next morning we only had a short time before departing on the next leg of the journey so we took a walk up stream, over the first bridge we came to, down the other side and back over the next bridge. There were several rowers out on the river getting a bit of exercise.
Our train didn’t depart until almost 11 am so no need to rush around and thankfully the rain had stopped as we sat on the station waiting its arrival, another trip on a 1 meter gauge line like most of them since we arrived in Spain.
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