Food Blackout.... I left my heart in San Sebastian

So after our trip to Finland we came back to Madrid for a day before we were off again. This time we were off to Pais Vasco (north of Spain) and San Sebastian with our friend Rachel. We had three days in San Sebastian and might I say this may have been my favorite 3 days of all.


We arrived in San Sebastian late Thursday afternoon and found our quaint little hostel. The weather was kinda bad (rainy and cool) so we figured we would just walk around a little instead of going to the beach. We walked up this mountain where there was a giant Jesus figure (like the one in Brazil). I guess we found Jesus hahaha :) After that we went back to the hostel where we met these 3 boys from the UK, a boy from Florida, and 2 Turkish girls and decided to all get dinner together. San Sebastian is famous for their pintxos. These are small plates (more elaborate than the usual Spanish tapa) that you order at a bar and eat standing up. Luckily for us, the kid from Florida was actually living in San Sebastian and working as a chef so he knew exactly where to take us and what to order. That night we only made it to one bar but we ate plenty there with Sean telling us how each one was made. I'll put up pictures in a moment.

The next day we walked through the city and el paseo de la playa. San Sebastian has 3 beaches right in a row. A popular thing to do is to walk along the beaches from one end to another. At one end they have huge iron structures jutting out into the water which are pretty awesome. They also have a cable car which takes you up to the top of the mountain overlooking the city. The weather still sucked that day but we really didn't care at that point because we just absolutely loved the city. The city has a French influence in the architecture and is completely unique in Spain. Just everything about the city was gorgeous. I couldn't get enough of it. I really think it's one of Europe's secret treasures.

 in <3 with San Sebastian

That night we had pintxos again. As well as Saturday. Actually all we did Saturday was walk around and eat. We couldn't get enough of the pintxos. I think that was some of the best food I have ever eaten in my life and I barely spent 20euros a day! I would go back here in a heartbeat especially once the weather gets nicer.


and now for only a sampling of what we ate:
on the left is squid fried in it's own ink and battered
the middle is a kobe burger on a ketchup infused bun (i ate 4 of these in 3 days, they were incredible)
on the far right is rabbit
and the dessert is some caramel chocolate and licorice thing (i don't remember really)

other stuff we had was pig's ear, cow cheek, goat cheese and plum sauce, duck, chicken's hearts, risotto, cod, and more that I can't even remember, we ate so much (food blackout). It was all incredible.