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San Sebastian is a very small and quaint town.  When we arrived, Jose took us for a quick tour before dinner.  We drove a few miles from the hotel and took this elevator to take us up 

To this view!  

 And from this view you can see the border of France!!  San Sebastian is very near France already so it would have been nice to do a France and Spain tour 🙂  But anyway, for future it would be good to have both in the itinerary

There was an old parador which was turned into a hotel

 And going further inside is this!! It was so nice!!! So peaceful and so beautiful.  These are little homes

A small plaza

And this is what I like about Europe – their old buildings with so much character

Love the small narrow streets

 More homes

The next day we toured the city again and wow!  

Some guys catching something by the shore

yachts

Sculpture by the mountains and water!

We took a tram to the highest point in San Sebastian 

How beautiful is that? A view of the city of San Sebastian

Panoramic shot

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From Russia, we went to Spain to eat! 🙂  

We hired the services of Jose Macicior who was recommended by a friend of Tita Ina Dizon

I plotted every hotel we stayed in in googlemaps and this was our route for the trip in Northern Spain.  We were already in the border of France ( you will see Bordeaux nearby already )  so it would be nice to also have a trip which mixes both French and Spanish gastronomy

We hired Jose plus a bus to take us around Northern Spain

Of course the bus has to have a driver and his name was Felix 🙂  Jose told me that he likes working with Felix because he is very patient and knows how to deal with people since he used to be a direct salesman where he has to deal with clients.  We were lucky to have Felix 

Jose is married to a Filipina, Isabel Aspillera, so he knows a lot about our ways 🙂  So even if he is Spanish, he adapts very well to our needs and knows more or less how we want things and he is so easy to get along with.  They live in London now but they go to Manila once in awhile still and to Spain of course

Jose can design a tour for you depending on where you would like to go in Spain and France.  He can go with you and escort you the whole way or he can just make a plan for you to follow and he will give his recommendations on restaurants and accommodations

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On our last night in Moscow, Richard and Sasa invited us over again! 🙂  We were so sad to leave Moscow and them but happy to bring back lots of memories we will treasure forever!!!

We were so happy that Richard and Sasa invited their friend, Moje and Maria!  Moje runs the Starbucks stores of the Al Shaya group in the Middle East!  Maria is a Filipina 🙂

With their daughter Zara 🙂

Sasa prepared for us a whole table of Russian appetizers!

Fresh honey from the Farmer’s market!!

Richard on the other hand was preparing for the vodka tasting!!  

A different table setting this time 🙂

I told you this guy was so nice!! I was so shocked to see him helping out and preparing the dinner table for us!!

Our lovely homemade dinner!! Pancit, Hainanese chicken and grilled salmon! Yum!

Melon in season

Homemade brownies 🙂

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