FUN-travel: Northern Spain – Hondarribia to Bilboa to Cangas de Onis, Spain
July 20, 2012 by Susan Clarke
Day 10 – Thursday, July 19 – Hondarribia to Bilboa to Cangas de Onis, Spain
Guggenheim Museum
What I LIKE
Atrium
- “Goldilocks Bed”
- my computer is still working
- 10 am depart for Bilbao
- Guggenheim Museum – designed by Frank Gehry is a work of art – limestone, titanium & glass – inspired by a silvery fish – evokes wind-filled sails heading out to sea
- only driving 3.5 hours before our next overnight stop
- pretty drive with mountains & lots of trees
- take “secret way” to Cangas de Onis – narrow, twisty, back roads
- see fox run across road
- drive past farms
- Cangas de Onis is 12th century monastery next to river – cows grazing across the street
Outside Sculpture
What I DON’T LIKE
- bed is a little on the hard side
- wake up to clouds & cooler temp
- my computer pop up warning saying “hard drive failure imminent”
- Garmin & Road Atlas have different exit ramp #’s to Cangas de Onis (first time this has happened)
- dinner starts @ 8:30 pm
- can’t open windows here – lots of bugs – where there’s cows there’s flies
FF (FUN-fact) – Main entrance to museum features Jeff Koons’ 42-ft-tall West Highland Terrier sculpture covered with 60,000 plants & flowers.