Donostia & Be Bop Bar

[22.8.-24.8. San Sebastian & Bilbao] Ok, it gets boring now if i tell you, that someone picked me up from the trainstation again, but this time it was completely different! Let me explain: Using a pre-paid-card for my mobile phone, i ran out of credit on my way from Zaragoza to San Sebastian. But in Vitoria i had an hour time before taking the next train and besides my telephone company wrote me a message, that i can even put money on my phone in spain (Lieber callya-Kunde ... blablabla). I thought: "Great, let´s do that." So i luckily found a shop in time, bought credit for 15 Euro, returned to the trainstation, got a seat and the train pulled out. Then i entered the code, worked perfect, the description was in english, i finished and waited for the response which came immediately: "Lieber callya-Kunde, vielen Dank für die Aufladung ihrer Vodafone-Karte. Wir werden ihrem Konto nun 0 Cent gutschreiben! Vielen Dank." (Do i have to translate that?) Let´s say i was pissed, a lot! I was not able to return to Vitoria, neither did i have lots of money left to buy another card. And i couldn´t tell Tomas when i will arrive ... But - to get back to the beginning - when i arrived in San Sebastian, i walked out of the trainstation and watched out for the next payphone, when suddenly a car stopped - with squeaking wheels. Tomas jumped out and said: "Hey man, sorry we are late, you tried to call me, right?" ... Öhm, no, but great!
Tomas has no drivers-license, so Goibel, a friend of him, was driving through the mountained streets of San Sebastian, which is btw called Donostia in the bask language.
The weather was great, so we decided to go to the beach (the only time i went to the beach during these 5 weeks), the water was really salty, so it´s pretty easy to swim without moving too much.
Later on we visited a small village called Deba with Tomas, Goibel and Xabi, ate some Tortilla-Baguettes and went back to San Sebastian to go to some bars. I don´t remember all places we have been, but i do pretty good remember ´Be Bop Bar´, which we left at three or four in the night (Tomas: "I need a taxi."). In the early morning Tomas´ alarmclock was quite bothering, but nobody wanted to move, until Tomas´ brother got really angry, entered the room, shaked Tomas ("Tomas! Conio!") until he switched it off...
In the afternoon Tomas and his dog showed me around in Donostia: There are three beaches, a small harbour, pretty nice Old Town and of course the fortress on Monte Urgull. We decided not to go to the Island Santa Clara, because the weather was not that good the second day, but some of Tomas friends work in bars in town, so we stopped by for a beer on the way back.


Donostia at Night
Xabi, Goibel and Tomas