Back to San Sebastian

Thursday 18^th September

It was cold when we awoke. The walk to the shower was chilly. It was threatening rain as we emptied the tanks and made ready.

It was a fair trek to San Sebastian so we shared the driving, and were lucky on arrival that there was a space for us. We parked up next to a group of young German girls on one side, and a Spanish couple on the next. The French guy behind us was concerned that we left enough space for him to get his rear locker open.

It was very, very hot. Over thirty degrees in the van, which came as a shock after the temperatures in Salamanca. I got the solar panels out, and we put the fan on before biking it down to the beach for a bit of a sunbathe in the evening sun.

Friday 19^th September

My birthday! The weather was good again, so after breakfast we prepared a packed lunch and went to the beach for the day. One weird thing was that I was lying down and listening to a Raymond Chandler novel when suddenly my right ear cleared, and I was listening in stereo! I had both ears functioning again. We stayed on the beach all day, having drinks from the beach bar towards the end and then decided to ride the other way around the beach from the direction that we had ridden last time we were there. We found a funicular railway and some amazing rock formations at the edge of the bay which forms San Sebastian’s main beach area.

The ride back was quite quick, and we sat in the hot van watching the young things next door getting ready for a night on the town. They all went off by bike when ready, and we anticipated noise in the early morning on their return – but it never happened, and all was quiet.