San Sebastian Spanish Port on the Bay of Biscay, a major sea trading port until the discovery of the Americas reduced it’s popularity is packed full of history, delightful architecture and fascinating stories. Here are just a few examples:

San Sebastian has more tapas bars than any place in the known world.

So many Tapas Bars so few veggies!

Somewhere in Spain there are farms with hundreds of pigs with no legs. This is because San Sebastian has more tapas bars than any place in the known world and they have hundreds, possibly thousands of pigs legs hanging from their ceilings.

Pigs Legs!

San Sebastian could be the only city in the world where you can buy a Tapas Cone “to go”. This is especially handy if you are lactose intolerant and out with your friends who are all enjoying a yummy Belgian chocolate waffle cone with nuts on top.

Mmmmmm! Pig leg, offal and bread sticks.

If you are hard up for cash, you can grab that old wok you haven’t used since you discovered you can’t cook worth a damn with it anyway, turn it upside down, whack it with leather covered finger pads harvested from an old pair of gardening gloves and sell home made CD’s of you’re recordings to enthusiastic yoga loving tourists at ten euros a pop.Whew what a sentence.

Enjoy Cathy!

At the base of the hill between two of San Sebastian’s lovely harbours you will find the first all stainless steel toilet in Spain built to compliment the outstanding sandstone architecture that artisans laboured over for centuries. Lets just hope this is the last all stainless steel toilet in Spain built to………

The following picture of some sort of sculpture, which no doubt has hidden meaning and I do mean hidden. It is defended by security cameras designed to stop unscrupulous scrap metal dealers from doing the locals a favour and cashing it in, or perhaps turning it in to a musical instrument to amuse tourists. Give me an hour with an angle grinder and a welder and I reckon I could make a half decent toolbox out of it.

But enough of this foolishness lets get serious. Atop the hill adjacent to the afore mentioned all chrome toilet stands a fort and it is an absolute architectural and engineering marvel (the Spanish are very good at both these things). They even thought to put a little chapel next to the gunpowder magazine so they could nick in and offer up a quick prayer before blasting the bejesus out of the opposition forces. As always when at war it’s best to have God and his family on side.

By the way, San Miguel Dorchester 9.1% there’s just nothing left to say………….