If you’ve ever traveled in Spain you’ve seen Bull Boards.  These are bill boards but in the shape of a big black bull.  They don’t advertise anything.  They just remind you that you are traveling in the land of El Toro.  My family loves Bull Boards, as I am sure all families do.  We shout out their existence at every turn.  Many are hard to photograph. They come and go quickly. They are often co-existing with other signage, and don’t often exist in pure form, which is why I was …

Here’s a belated quicky.  Drove through Avila en route from Salamanca to Segovia. Leslie keeps calling these three hill towns, and actually, I think Avila is one. (A hill town.) Lots of folks like this place and rhapsodize about it being the quintessential Castillian village. I can’t really say. It was about a million degrees that day and everyone was too heat-blasted to even get out of the car.  Managed to walk a few hundred feet, but after a short while it was too much.  There seems to be not …

Driving from San Sebastian to Sitges, down towards Zaragosa, there is little to see. It is a pretty flat land, some farms, and a lot of pradera.  To make the trip a little bit more interesting, there is the demarcation of the Greenwich Prime Meridian, which, surprisingly crosses through Spain in a town called Castellon de la Plana. Honestly, I had no idea.

Make sure to visit the local market in San Sebastian. There are two big ones; the one near our apartment is called Mercado de la Bretxa. I’ve never seen more pork, smoked, salted and raw, jammed into one location. Lots of cheese, fish, bread and pastries as well. Fruit. Vegetables (“Don’t touch”, the sign said in four different languages.) Really, it’s like any local market, but this one is in the basement of a shopping mall. I think it was there first and they put …

We’ve heard for months about what a great place San Sebastian is to eat, but most of the folks I heard that from don’t have kids and tend towards more, let’s say, “gourmet” experiences.  We’ve had our fair share of those, but tonight we ate at Va Bene, also known as “Disco Burger,” on San Sebastian’s “Boulevard.” These people serve great burgers which come in a wide variety of choices, including singles and doubles. Ask them to go easy on the mayonnaise, or just use a knife and fork. …