Piggie Diaries: Adventures in Spain: San Sebastian and Pamplona

We promise this is the last of our Spain posts (until our next trip). We’ve dragged on our trip to Spain for more than a month now and almost considered not posting the last entry, but we couldn’t bear to skip over our final glorious days in the Basque region!

I’m going to keep this brief because the photos will speak for themselves. We spent one day in the beautiful beach town of San Sebastian, known to have the best pintxos (that’s what they call tapas in the Basque region) and most Michelin star restaurants per capita in the world. Heavy rain that day prevented us from wandering the beach; however, we happily occupied our time exploring the pintxos bars of San Sebastian.

Yay we have arrived at San Sebastian!...but booo it's raining!

A Fuego Negro - Lumagorri pate, sourfoam, and corn

A Fuego Negro - Cod with pepper pips

A Fuego Negro - Cheese with tongue and polenta

A Fuego Negro - Mini Kobe beef burger

This pretty much sums up the entire trip

Our final stop was in Pamplona, the capital of Navarra and best known for the annual running of the bulls at the San Fermin Festival. We didn’t stick around Pamplona long enough to catch the running of the bulls (I’d prefer to stay far away from the half ton sized bulls) but did get a chance to walk the route of the bulls and those brave souls that run with them. You can probably guess what we did the rest of the time – pintxos crawl (Bar Gaucho was hands down our absolute favorite) and then an unforgettable dinner at Europa, known as one of the best restaurants in Pamplona.