Buenas Dias!

So clearly, I crossed the Atlantic a few days ago now, and there´s yet to have been an entry. But in my defense, it´s been suprisingly difficult to find a place to upload pictures. My adventure began in Bilbao. Honestly, I really had only one reason to go at all, which was the same reason every tourist goes to Bilbao.


And really. can you blame me? It really is jaw-droppingly beautiful.

But everything I´ve read and heard about the city said to get in, see the Guggenheim, and get the heck out as fast as you could. Everyone I´ve consulted touted it as a dingy, grimy, filthy one horse town with only the museum to recommend it. All I can say is... they must´ve been smokin´something awful.

I´m not sure whether I loved it so much because it was my first stop and I always tend to fall in love with the first place I see, or because it beat my expectations to a bloodly pulp, but either way I fell hard. Small enough to be charming, modern enough to be sofisticated, and overall an incredibly dignified place. I don´t think I saw one piece of trash on the ground, and I don´t really think they would have stood for it if there were.

(Please excuse the badness of these pictures... it´s been overcast and I haven´t had photoshop to do even a basic round of clean up. The quality gets better with the ones in Madrid, I swear.)

My time at this computer is almost up, but I´ll head back in later tonight because I´ve been snapping pictures here in Madrid all day, and I can´t wait to share them with yáll.

Hasta Luego!