San Sebastian (December 2012)
Bay of Biscay
Situated on the northern coast of Spain on the Bay of Biscay, San Sebastian is one of the top tourist destinations in Spain, and I can see why. San Sebastian sits all around the edge of the Bay of Biscay on wooded cliffs above a beautiful horseshoe shaped sandy beach. The streets are lined with shops and restaurants and the town has a relaxed, artsy kind of feel. What we hadn't expected was that when we entered San Sebastian, all the signage was printed in a language that none of us recognized. I assumed there might be French spoken there, with the city's close proximity to France's southern border, but this was a language I had never seen before. We learned that the Basque Country has it's own language, called Euskara, and about a third of the inhabitants of the Basque region speak Euskara, rather than Spanish.
Euskara language
San Sebastian shops