June Wanderings

I woke up on June 4 in a sleepy daze, the kind that comes after a night of much too little sleep, and glanced at my cell phone. It felt a little warm in the room, evidence that the sun had risen more than expected for my 7:30am wake-up time, but I wasn't too worried as I glanced at the clock on my cell phone. And then, suddenly, I was worried. It was 9:20am. I was going to miss my bus to the airport! Well, more specifically, I was going to miss the first of two (both necessary) buses that would transport me to the airport before my flight to Bilbao. After breathing heavily and frantically considering all of my options for a few minutes, I hurriedly packed all of my things and ran out the door to the bus station. I had certainly already missed my bus, but there was a chance, just a chance, that another bus would be driving the same route, even though it wasn't posted.

I arrived at the station and explained my situation to the lady at the counter. She looked skeptically at me, but found (to my incredible delight!) a bus that would take me to Marbella, where I could catch my second bus to the airport. Thus, my travels around the Iberian Peninsula began.



























(1)Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain
(2)Door on Juan de Bilbao Street, San Sebastian, Basque Country, Spain
(3)La Concha Bay, San Sebastian, Spain
(4)Oviedo Cathedral, Spain
(5)Bagpipes, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
(6)Botafumeiro, Santiago de Compostela Cathedral, Spain
(7)Santiago de Compostela, Spain
(8, 9, 10)Porto, Portugal
(11)Alfama District, Lisbon, Portugal
(12)Lisbon, Portugal
(13)Sintra, Portugal