One of my favorite things to do is going to concerts and discover new music. Since I’ve been here I haven’t had the chance to do so, until last weekend! Read more…
This weekend I had two guests in the Basque Country! Sander and Davy came to visit me. After we spent an evening and night in Bilbao, we visited San Sebastian.
Today we had our second class of Digital Journalism where we were divided into groups of three to work on a project. We got the assignment to make a comic using pictures we made ourselves.
We have been in the Basque Country for over a week now, but this Friday was our first weekend we were all together. Still being the students that we are, it would be really ridiculous to wait a day longer to go partying. Read more…
Me and my Dutch friend(see previous) wanted to lay back for a night, after a tiring one in Bilbao. Therefore we went home to Arrasate, cause what could happen there? Well, we discovered it’s not easy at all to avoid the fun here! After dinner, we got called by our Erasmus friends, who just happened to be a couple of minutes away. They just insisted that we came for a drink, just one they said.
My friend didn’t know anyone at the start of the night, but he felt like he met the whole town at the end of it! Cause of course this one drink turned in to a second, a third and so on.. Each time I looked at my friend, he was talking to a new person, Basque or Erasmus, who ever.
He discovered that Basques in Arrasate enjoy having a drink, a chat and a game of table football when they’re going out. So that’s exactly what we did. Luckily, my friend is a enthousiatic guy, who enjoys meeting new people, what a great introduction to the Basque social ways. Ongi etorri Holland!
Weekends here just seem to keep going.. If you’re lucky, you catch a good Thursday night out in a student town, like I had in Arrasate. On Fridays people take it fairly easy, by having dinner with their friends or family. The one I was invited to happened to be in Donostia, were some of my Basque friends are from. We had a lovely night, meeting lots of people and the next day I found myself enjoying pintxos, some cider and a few welcome sunbeams. The following day another Basque ‘laguna’(Basque friend), took me for some hiking in the mountains near Gasteiz. This all seems like a pretty good weekend, but then Gernika was mentioned.. A big farmers market filled with good, fresh food, followed by a party? That just sounded too good not to go!
The bus trip from my town Arrasate was interesting. I had to take three different busses to get there. But I had a great conversation in the bus with a guy who wrongly interpreted my question to speak slower, he just spoke louder.. Que fuerte!
In Gernika, I went strolling over the market, and what they said was true. People from all over the Basque Country(including Navarra and the French Basque Country) were there to sell own grown farm products such as fruits, vegetables, sheep cheese, cider and txakoli.
Still wonder where that damn tree is…
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