Woke up to a nice leisurely breakfast at the farmhouse, and before leaving, we decided to take a walk around the accommodation.
As we were walking, we came across some horses in the pasture in the distance. They were ignoring us, until Thierry decided to entice them with grass on our side of the field. One came and then a couple others followed after about 5 mins.
I also got a chance to feed them on our return route back. I suppose we were trying to attract them with "the grass is tastier on the other side of the fence" 😂, which worked!
We then drove into Guernica to check out the museums - Cultural Musuem which focused on the Basque culture and towns, and the Guernica Museum which focused on the bombing on 26 April 1937.
Both museums were mostly in Spanish and Basque, with a separate translation available in English on the side.
However what impacted us most was watching the videos in Guernica Museum of individuals recalling their experience during the 26 April 1937 bombing - these people were kids the age of about 9 or 11 and now they are in their 70s or 80s, and the vividness of what they still recall after so many years is still heart wrenching.
While the weather was a little better today, we decided to do a picnic outside, so after heading to the supermarket to pick up a few items, we drove to Laida beach to have our picnic lunch, while enjoying the view of the sea and breeze.
The unique thing about this beach was that the waves comes in 2 different directions because of the water from the river meeting the water from the Bay of Biscay.
We then drove over to Laga Beach, a sandy beach with the rock cliff, before continuing on our way.
As we drove towards the town of Elantxobe we came across this goat! How cute!
Elantxobe is another cute little port town, although extremely quiet as there were hardly any visitors around and only 1 bar opened for drinks. We stopped briefly to have some coffee / hot chocolate before heading to Ea to check into the hotel.
The room we were assigned was in orange, and it was hilarious to see even the toilet paper was orange!
After quickly dropping our bags, we headed out towards Elantxobe again, as Thierry has a viewing scheduled with a property agent to visit 2 apartments in the area. The most amazing part of the apartments were the sea view, and they were selling at about €150,000 for a sizeable apartment with 3 bedrooms.
The only drawback was how quiet the area was outside of the summer season, and the possibly challenges in parking during summer. So I think Thierry is going to sit out on those apartments we saw.
We were considering doing dinner in Ea, but even the only restaurant that was opened in the town had already closed their kitchen at 8pm. Super rare for Spain since dinner is usually only after 8pm.
So we drove out to Lekeitio, the next biggest town and found a place to grab some food at Cafe Bar Triana, before driving back to Ea and calling it a night!
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