Day 8 – Bilbao, Spain

As my brother put it, if you want to see what Sherri and I look like when we’re at at ATM machine, check out:
http://www.by-cam.com/byCam/SvVideo.do?id=en&nv=119ED1M08

In other news, there’s a reason I’m not on TV. Sherri looks lovely, as always.

Bilbao was great! I don’t know what I was expecting, but it was exceeded. It’s a crazy hilly shuttle bus trip from the port into downtown Bilbao. We endured more shuttle bus chaos at the pier. If the shuttle is half full and there are FOUR other buses parked, waiting… maybe we can go ahead and leave? Just askin’.

Here’s a photo near the port:

We get off in Bilbao and head immediately towards the Guggenheim:

Obviously I have no idea what to do with my hands.

The museum is down by the river, where they have an excellent river walk promenade(?). I firmly believe down by the river is the ideal place for a river walk promenade. So we strolled…

Along there…

For maybe…

An hour…

And then stopped for a sexy picture:

We left the river walk and strolled through town. There are two notable photos I want to bring to your attention.

You’ll need to click in to this photo to see it. It’s an electronics shop and they’re showing Family Guy as the demo. How great!

Finally we stopped for a late lunch. I had paella, forgetting they leave the shrimps intact, then snapped the following pic, which I really like:

Not much time left after lunch, plus a storm was a-brewin’, so we headed back to the ship. The stormy skies generated an arc or circle that exhibits in concentric bands the colors of the spectrum and that is formed opposite the sun by the refraction and reflection of the sun’s rays in raindrops , spray, or mist, as you can see here:

A bunch of locals were gathered to see the ship depart. Click in to this one and view either the Large or Original versions.

That was our day in Bilbao. I’ll go ahead and write about sea day #2: nothing happened. It’s a sea day.

Next stop: Lisbon, Portugal!