sammi needham : cogitate

the flamenco in granada was the best. little cave like place and 3 dudes, one old guy singing, one awesome guitarist playing guitar and another dude dancing. he was unreal. got lots of photos.

from granada, we mvoed on to barcelona which is a great place. heaps of great shopping locations and the weather was fine fine fine. ate some good food and saw the gaudi sights before our final night on tour. Roxy found that one of the gaudi apartment buildings had a jazz concert on the rooftop for a cheap 12€ so that was our destination. It was brilliant, there were fireworks going off in the city and we were sitting back watching some amazing contemporary jazz on the inspiring roof of the Casa Milà with Sagrada Familia lit up in the distance. Picture perfect.

From there we did a cooking course in barcelona where we did a tour of the local market and then made a bunch of dishes including a delicious paella. And the next day hired a car and drove to san sebastian. It was about a 500km drive after getting lost a little bit and a stop-over in a little town for some lunch along the way.

San sebastian greeted us with an awesome beach (THAT HAS TABLE TENNIS TABLES  ON IT MILAN!). Drove around for a while and found the hotel pretty efficiently, then have spent the last few days, shopping, walking the beaches kicking the footy and throwing the frisbee, bar-hopping to find the best pintxos in town and walking up the big hill to see the jesus, which just happened to have an awesome bar that overlooked the beaches with an amazing view from very high up and also had incredibly cheap cervesas!. Today has been spend in town doing a bit of clothes washing and planning tomorrows drive to pamplona.

Probably won’t be online again for a little while as i’m sure pamplona will be massive. Dan is coming down for a day as he is going to be surfing in spain. Hutchy will be there for the second day too, so there will be lots of beer, running with bulls, bull fights, sky-rockets and jumping off fountains to certain death to come. Back on deck when we hit barcelona again on the night of the 8th. If i post on the 9th, you’ll know i haven’t died. If i don’t post on the 9th, maybe you will get a text from roxy letting you know that i might not be back at work/footy/home on time. Wish me luck.

over and out.