You definitely don’t want to have to get up in the night !

What a gorgeous spot!

Not the nicest-looking water in which to swim or raise a family. Must be the low rent district of duckdom.

Could easily be. They call themselves My House Apartments, in a residential complex in a shopping alley off Corso Campi, about four blocks from the cathedral.

I think you two might be staying in the same building my ex and I stayed in four years ago. Nice area for walking.

I don’t doubt you enjoyed Bilbao. It’s really a lovely city. We’re ticketed to start our fall tour there this fall and are anxious to see it again.

What a different looking cathedral! Very cool.

Too much parmesan, too little pasta? But what a swell location!

We watched people in a few different areas in Bilbao parks, sidewalks etc we felt happy, rejuvenated and enlightened seeing multigenerational families chatting, playing and being together all while hanging out in areas with no cars. It was peaceful and fun.

I can see that. But unfortunately the farmer won’t be happy having wind and/or rain damaging his crop.

I was commenting to Lyle today how the poppies seem to be blooming forever. We left France in mid April and they were everywhere, we are now quite a bit south in Spain and we are still seeing fields of them. They really are pretty.

That possibility never occurred to me. Makes perfect sense.

Definitely a member of the fiddle family, whether violin, viola, or cello. The peg head's all wrong for it to be a guitar.

A couple decades ago, a man of similar intensity approached me at the site of President Kennedy's assassination in Dallas, TX. He led me around the grassy knoll and on to the Texas Book Depository building, explaining all kinds of interesting details along the way. Looking back, I don't know how much of his spiel was true or not. I should have expected what came next. He asked for a tip. And when I gave him a couple dollar bills, he actually said something like "is that all my guided tour was worth? How about another five bucks?" Odds are, the dude you encountered was about to do the same thing. You were smart to walk away. Smarter than me.

I once had a patient that I though I was having a great conversation with until suddenly he complained about the band he was hearing (first clue) I said something like he was hearing a different beat by the drummer. He said, oh the drummer was ok it was the rest of the band he didn't like.