![Pintxos in San Sebastian, Spain: Quail Egg on Blood Sausage, Shrimp on Salmon Loaf](https://yearlonghoneymoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/egg_blood_sausage-e1399477141183-470x140.jpg)
It may sound quite taxing to bring you this digest of pintxos in San Sebastian: Thirty-six hours Ten stops Twenty-five pintxos. Drinks? Quite a few….
![How to Pintxos Bar Hop](https://yearlonghoneymoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_0642-470x140.jpg)
Similar to tapas, pintxos are Spanish bar snacks, popular in Basque cities and the Navarra region, and taken to high culinary art in food-forward cities…
![Dazzled by the Guggenheim Effect: One Day in Bilbao](https://yearlonghoneymoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_0718-470x140.jpg)
As unlikely as a shimmering pearl nestled in a barnacle-encrusted oyster shell, the Guggenheim Museum, designed by architect Frank Gehry, has transformed the once distressed,…
![The Peak is Underground: Cave Paintings of Tito Bustillo](https://yearlonghoneymoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/titobustillo_ribadesella_t3_jpg_1306973099-470x140.jpg)
Pinnacles of experience don’t find words easily. But I will try. I must try. Let’s go together. Enter the cave. There are three doors, one…
![Semana Santa marchers hidden under capirote in Santiago de Compostela, Spain.](https://yearlonghoneymoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/featured_capirote-e1398971173881-470x140.jpg)
This week I am facing one of the good, right and hard aspects of travel: an unfamiliar culture is making me face my bias, my…
![Desayuno at La Corte de Pelayo Café](https://yearlonghoneymoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/IMG_2288-470x140.jpg)
At the intersection of Calle de Pelayo and Calle de Fruela where old town Oviedo meets new town, you are greeted the instant you set…
![A Ton of Tonics](https://yearlonghoneymoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/spanish_tonic_brands4-470x140.jpg)
I love gin. I love gin and tonic. The Spanish love gin and tonic even more than I do. As a person raised where juniper trees…
![Made in A Coruña: Zara's Fast Fashion Empire](https://yearlonghoneymoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/IMG_1773-470x140.jpg)
Galicia, like Portland, is known for its wet weather but the skies are blue and spring is in the air when we arrive in A…
![Queimada, the Cocktail that Fire and Witchcraft Made](https://yearlonghoneymoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/queimada_dish_aflame-470x140.jpg)
My spouse loves fire. She lights our dinner table with candles (Back in the days when we had a house and a dinner table. And…
![Walking (Slowly) in the Footsteps of Pilgrims](https://yearlonghoneymoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/IMG_1577-470x140.jpg)
Chris is holed up in our hotel room, his laptop open, his left foot elevated above his heart. We have been catering in. The Galician…
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