wfudkn
cookout = blabbermouth?
So I'll be heading to Spain for two weeks in late August/Early September. My boi is getting married in San Sebastian on Monday, Sept 1, so my initial thought was to fly into Madrid on Saturday Sept 23, tool around Madrid for a few days, rent a car, hit one or two places on the way to San Sebastian (maybe in Rioja wine country), and then get to San Sebastian on Wed the 27th (I need to be there relatively early because wife and I comprise the entire wedding party and will be helping with shiz - and we've rented a villa for the week, so that's not going to suck either). So after the wedding we would either leave on Tuesday or Wednesday (the 2nd or 3rd, respectively) and then drive back towards Madrid, stopping somewhere on the way for a day or two, and then fly out of Madrid on Saturday the 6th.
So my questions for all you worldly travelers are these:
[1] If we stick with the plan above, what places have people been along that general route that would be worthwhile? We've looked at Burgos, Valladolid, Zaragoza, Pamplona and Logrono as potential stops, but I can't get a good feel if any would be worth spending any time in.
[2] Should I skip Madrid and instead fly in and out of Barcelona? I've been to Barca before, and while it's awesome, I've never been elsewhere in Spain, so I though Madrid would be better because it would be new. Don't know much about it though, and maybe Barca is just way better and I should go back there instead.
[3] Fly into Barca or Madrid and fly out of the other? My concern here is that we will have less time in either one than we would if we made just one of them our home base (since we would have nights there both before and after the wedding).
[4] Regardless of 1-3, since we may have a car in San Sebastian (don't know if we will turn it in when we get there and get a new one when we leave, or just keep it for the week), what are good day trips from San Sebastian? Pamplona, Bilbao and Bayonne (France) are all really close, and Bordeaux seems to be only 2+ hours away by car, so that defs seems like something I want to do.
Appreciate any help. Spain is by far the country in western Europe I have the least familiarity with.
So my questions for all you worldly travelers are these:
[1] If we stick with the plan above, what places have people been along that general route that would be worthwhile? We've looked at Burgos, Valladolid, Zaragoza, Pamplona and Logrono as potential stops, but I can't get a good feel if any would be worth spending any time in.
[2] Should I skip Madrid and instead fly in and out of Barcelona? I've been to Barca before, and while it's awesome, I've never been elsewhere in Spain, so I though Madrid would be better because it would be new. Don't know much about it though, and maybe Barca is just way better and I should go back there instead.
[3] Fly into Barca or Madrid and fly out of the other? My concern here is that we will have less time in either one than we would if we made just one of them our home base (since we would have nights there both before and after the wedding).
[4] Regardless of 1-3, since we may have a car in San Sebastian (don't know if we will turn it in when we get there and get a new one when we leave, or just keep it for the week), what are good day trips from San Sebastian? Pamplona, Bilbao and Bayonne (France) are all really close, and Bordeaux seems to be only 2+ hours away by car, so that defs seems like something I want to do.
Appreciate any help. Spain is by far the country in western Europe I have the least familiarity with.
