Another taste of luxury, we walked into a restaurant last night, dictated by Lisa's superficial requirements for a nice tablecloth and big wine glasses, looking for a couple of salads. Well, it wasn't quite that sort of restuarant ! Avant-garde Basque cuisine, beautifully presented, served by fantastic waiters, and the wine by the glass was superb. Chargrilled baby vegetables with walnuts, followed by roasted octopus wih orange oil and powdered squid, followed by porcini risotto. Oh my god, we thought we'd died and gone to heaven. It's called Porrue, if anyone wants to know, and ranks 9th in the whole of Bilbao on TripAdvisor, a lucky choice by Lisa.
Today has been a massage, a haircut for me (all in Spanish so I'm pretty proud), and a wander around Bilbao, it's hot and humid so a rather short walk. The waterfront around the Guggenheim is amazing, a really good example of urban renewal and activation of a previously defunct space into a fun, lively, contemporary communal area.
Lisa admiring the spider sculpture
I don't know how to photograph the Guggenheim, it's massive and majestic, I think I'd need a much better camera to do any justice to it, so will just show a few views. We'll visit it tomorrow, it's meant to be a really hot day so hiding inside may be well advised.
El pupp, Spanish for 'The Puppy', he was a temporary display which the Bilboans decided they liked so much they'd keep - he's made of a wire frame and begonias, and has birds nesting in him. The joke in Bilbao is that they had the puppy, so they had to build a kennel for him, just behind him !
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