Our last couple of days in Spain were pretty neat. After a lot of pretty mediocre cafe food, my standards got higher towards the end of the trip and we were a lot pickier about where we ate with much better results. In San Sebastian, we ate at the port twice and finally found some fabulous seafood. On a day trip to Hondarribia we found a little Basque cafe with no English on the menu where Austin was finally able to order fresh anchovies (that incidentally taste nothing like the anchovies that we think of). And in Avila for our last night we got to enjoy some amazing meat at a cook-to-order gourmet tapas bar (most tapas bars just put out sandwiches and other fried food for hours on the bar for quick food... I would definitely not dare to eat any of that stuff while pregnant). We also woke up in Avila to an amazing breakfast buffet with two kinds of Spanish omelettes, lots of chorizo and local cheeses and yogurts and surprisingly, even gluten free baked products (yay!).
But aside from the food, our last two days we visited a few really neat towns. The first was in the Basque country, Hondarribia, which is a little coastal town on the Spanish side of the coastal border between France and Spain. It felt truly Basque, and was just a delight to walk around in. The other big highlight was spending the night at a hotel in a renovated 16th century palace in Avila, the oldest and most complete walled city in Spain (the wall dates to 1100 or before). It was a real treat.
