Bilbao

The drive to Bilbao was longer than expected, about 3 and ½ hours. We found parking right outside the Guggenheim museum of modern art. Everyone’s heard about the Guggenheim museums, but something that Julie and I learnt about it was there are five in the world. We both didn’t think the Guggenheim was in Spain, but our guide book said it was, now we know why. Something else Julie and I learnt about museums of modern art, was that we only truly enjoy modern art if we can laugh at it. Needless to say, we were quite happy to be on our way after completing the 3 floor museum. We did learn some facts along the way though, the art on display was the last 300 years of American art, and somewhere along the way they had a timeline of American history. Violent and racist fits what we learnt quite well and the war of 1812 was apparently against GB, not Canada, which I guess isn't entirely wrong considering we are still under the monarchy. Our next stop is Santiago de Compostela, though we don’t think we can make it today, so we plan to stop in Santander.