We are living in the north of spain about a half an hour from the French border. At the end of Auguest, we packed up the little green car with everything we could fit, and headed south with not much planned. Thanks to our new handy GPS, we arrived in Spain and found a camp site near the beach called Saturaan where we lived while looking for an apartment.
Upon arriving in Spain, the most daunting and amusing thing we found was the language. We are living in the Basque Country (Pais Vasco, or Euskadi), where although there is Spanish, the more often found language is Euskara or Basque. We both speak Spanish so we can get by perfectly fine, but it does get a little ridiculous when you are driving down the highway and the sign says: Atsedenleku (rest area), irteera (exit) or Legebiltzarrerako hauteskundeak departamenuarekin (who knows what that means :P).
It is really beautiful here. We found an apartment in a little town called Eibar. It takes only about 3 minutes to get out of the town and to be completely surrounded by nothing but mountains.
With only a 3 minute drive to the mountains, a 20 minutes drive to the beach, a five minute walk to the grocery store, and a 30 second walk to the bar there is never a lack of things to do.
Being located in the middle of the mountains, our little town of Eibar is small but high. In order to get to the city center from our apartment, you go down the stairs. To get back you can take an escalator back up. They are everywhere. You can take an escalator or the stairs to basically any part of town that you want.
These are the stairs/escators closest to our apartment. :)
That is all for now, but there is sure to be more news soon from Pais Vasco.
Those escalators are crazy looking. I couldn't imagine taking those stairs up everyday. That must have been why they installed escalators. I'm so glad everything is going well.That view of the mountain is beautiful! Say hi to your french partner in crime for me. Love you, Laura!
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