Erki & Katrina hitch-hiking Europe: San Sebastian in Spain

Got to San Sebastian from Bordeaux on Saturday. We were trying to hitch-hike to South-West of France from Bordeaux, to stop in a town called Bayonne. We were picked up by two french girls heading to San Sebastian for the weekend, and as there wasn't anything certain planned for Bayonne, we decided to go all the way with them.

Once in town we took a walk around the center town to find a Touris Information point and got ourselves a map. After finding a map, we headed to the beach. To our surprise the sand area of the beach was fairly small, but later we saw that it was because of the high tide. Beach itself looked fairly nice, but the water was cold. To our misfortune, after staying on the beach for a bit the sky turned cloudy and it got bit chilly. So we decided to head back into town and find something to eat and perhaps a place to stay at.

For dinner we got two packs of chips and some sausages, from already closing Lidl shop. We enjoyed it well and started to look for a place to sleep at. As there were two train stations near by, we tried to see, if we could spend the night there. Unfortunately it was closed for the night, so we had to settle with some benches outside of it. After siting there for a while, decided to walk around a bit and find a place to lay down at. After trying to find a spot somewhere around the train station and the park there, we spoted a church tower nearby. As we had a recomendation at the start of our trip to spend a night near a church, if we had to sleep outside, then that's what we did.

It wasn't comfortable by no means, but we got some sleep, untill it started to rain early in the middle of the night. We quickly packed our stuff and walked away from the church. After walking for a while through the city to find a dry spot to lay down at, we eventually stopped next to the beach on a small area meant for people to enjoy the view over the beach. It was certainly the longest night of our trip so far, but we survived it =)

On Sunday, we decided to head on deeper into Spain. To our misfortune, the weather continued to be awfull and it rained almost all day, not really best time to hitch-hike. As sleeping outside with the rain wasn't an option, we had to settle with a hostel marked down on the map we got from the tourist office. Looking back, it was fairly expencive one, but atleast we got a warm and dry place to sleep at.

Monday the weather turned warm again, so we started heading out of San Sebastian. More about that in the next post ;)