THE GUG

The four adventurous students were pretty worn out from their long day in San Sebastian yet it did not stop them from waking early the next morning to tackle their next feat, BILBAO! Famous for the Guggenheim Museum, and, well not much else. That was what everyone told us before we went to Bilbao. They all said, well you won't see much other than Guggenheim, it may not really be worth your time. On the contrary, Bilbao was fantastic. It used to be an industrial city, but they have remade it to be more modern hence the theme the Guggenheim represents. We started our tour at the old part of the city. Again there were people and the colorful apartments lining the streets. We visited a huge meat and fish market. Brock kind of had to push me in there. I don't have a problem eating meat I just don't like to see what it looks like before it is ground up or grilled! There were full pig heads hanging, and little piglets curled up in glass windows. The aroma of fish floated up the stairs as I walked past, oh boy. The fish market was worse, they had octopus, squid, ugly fish with there big eyes staring up at you! I zoomed through there pretty quick! After the market we took a stroll by the river that runs through Bilbao. We found ourselves walking around this big park with green rolling hills. It was really beautiful. After subiring(spanglish for climbing) the mountain we took some photos and headed down to the museum. Good thing I had my chaco's because it was some serious hiking! haha no but it was mountainous! The Guggenheim was my favorite part! They offered free audio tours, so we actually ended up learning about the motives behind a lot of the modern art(this is actually really good because otherwise, it is just a green canvas!) After about 3 and a half hours in the museum we felt pretty artsy so we took some photos where we were the subject of the art. That was a favorite line among modern artists, "you are the subject of the art, it is what you make of it" Pretty surreal huh? ha The Guggenheim itself is very modern, it was designed by Frank Ghery and he got his inspiration from fish. That explains the undulating design!After two days of going going we weere pretty tired so we caught our flight and came back to Madrid!