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elleng

(136,071 posts) Sat May 23, 2015, 09:42 AM May 2015

36 Hours in Bilbao, Spain

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36 Hours in Bilbao, Spain (Original Post) elleng May 2015 OP

Amazing city! I was there in 2008 and it was wonderful. The Guggenheim Museum is CTyankee May 2015 #1

It's one of the cities I've wanted to see, yank. elleng May 2015 #2

Time to go back, Ellen! It's all changed now... CTyankee May 2015 #3

It's nice to stop at Pamplona, also. It is a gracious, elegant town with very well CTyankee May 2015 #4

CTyankee

(65,032 posts)

1. Amazing city! I was there in 2008 and it was wonderful. The Guggenheim Museum is

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Sun May 24, 2015, 03:42 PM

May 2015

fabulous -- I saw Twombly's Ah! The Peonies there and was carried away by them. This was an old "rustbelt" city that was completely redone by art and architecture. It is now a tourist destination for people who want to experience something very different, yet the same in terms of great Spanish art, food and wine.

elleng

(136,071 posts)

2. It's one of the cities I've wanted to see, yank.

Reply to CTyankee (Reply #1)

Sun May 24, 2015, 03:49 PM

May 2015

We the family of 4, on our France trip 24 years ago, spent a couple of days in/around the Pays Basque, mostly in France. It's a fascinating place.

CTyankee

(65,032 posts)

3. Time to go back, Ellen! It's all changed now...

Reply to elleng (Reply #2)

Sun May 24, 2015, 04:20 PM

May 2015

Thanks to Gehry and Sir Norman Foster you've got a whole new Basque capital...You will rave about the Guggenheim. Trust me.

CTyankee

(65,032 posts)

4. It's nice to stop at Pamplona, also. It is a gracious, elegant town with very well

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Mon May 25, 2015, 06:50 AM

May 2015

dressed, polite people. You wouldn't know it by the photos we all see of the two running of the bulls on their way into the bullfighting arena, which look like real melees.

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