Day 13 - Goggling at the Guggenheim

Today we decided to take a trip to Bilbao for lunch and to see the famous Guggenheim. We had read that the collection inside was nothing to write home about and the best art was outside the building itself, so we had no intention of entering the museum. 

After eventually finding a car park (you may notice that this is a bit of a running theme, parking can be difficult at times) we walked the river front that felt very "un-Spanish", in that it was quite clean and modern. We circled the Guggenheim and found the giant "Puppy" sculpture out the front, a mammoth dog made out of beautiful flowering plants. We wandered through some of the streets of the Bilbao old town but being Saturday lunchtime the only places open were a few eating spots.

We drove back to Santander along the lovely road that followed the port and the peninsula. We walked the long harbour passing the stalls that were reminiscent of St Kilda Sunday market, before heading home to
our own beach side spot for the evening.