swimmingly (a word which lets us include ANOTHER beach picture from Saturday, the 11th). The 11th was another beautiful day and we spent most of it on the beach with poquito being spent in the rather frigid water – we’ve been told that people swim the bay sans wetsuit until December (muy loco, in our opinion). We sat on the fairly empty beach and kept repeating to ourselves that it was October and we were beach-bumming it – something that our State College nouveau-riche lifestyle has never allowed us to partake in.
Our town tours continue, with a walk around the Eastern side of the bay a week ago (the correct photo of the sculpture by Jorge Oteiza shown here along with a photo of the main surfing beach, Playa
Zurriola, where thanks to our visits, Kelsey and Audrey no longer need anatomy lessons, if you catch our drift). We continue to enjoy the exploring.But we assume that you are all tired of seeing multiple angles of some backwater European coastal city and figured this would be a good time to show you the pad, hangout, bunkhouse, domicile, residence, dwelling, manse, abode, address, heezie, building, etc., etc., etc. – a place we like to call La Casa GRANDE de los Linzells (phonetically en Espanol – “La Catha Grande de loth Lintttthhhhelllllllllttttthhhhsss). SOOOO – welcome to our Crib!!!!
As we said during the Week 2.5 report, we’re on the 4th floor (in Metric-speaking countries). Our apartment is one of four on that floor. It is a 2 BR unit that was refurbished right before we moved in (say goodbye to the deposit…). When you open the door to the apartment you see the main living area and kitchen, which includes a stovetop, oven, fridge/freezer and,
BEST OF ALL, a dishwasher!!! As you can see in the general entry pic and photo of the kitchen, everything is done in early Ikea. In addition to the 2 BRs (girls have a bunk and the ‘rents have a bed that is a king widthwise) we have a futon that will sleep 2 (so C’MON OVER – your retirement may be shot but the dollar continues to strengthen against the Euro, so it’s a great time for a trip). The futon pic, which shows 2 lovely ladies doing some homework, sits next to a crazy bean bag chair/albino candy-corn shaped thing that can become a bone of contention when 
watching Spanish TV (Is it??? Oh yes IT IS, the JoBros on a Spanish TV station last week – OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG!!!!!!! – seems they were in-country last week and (1) it’s obvious they speak about as much Spanish as Dan does and (2) no, they did not call us).
The rest of the apartment is some of your typical U.S. apartment stuff and one non-typical U.S. apartment item. The bathroom has a single basin, shower and commode (typical), we have a decent sized clothes washer in a utility room (typical) and the dryer is located to the right of the washer (to load and unload turn the window handle to your left, pull and lean out – definitely not typical). As the photo hopefully shows, you need to make sure you hang on tight to your threads while placing and 
removing because, should you drop one, it will fall 5 stories and it may take an international tribunal to get it back – we have only dropped a clothes pin so far.
removing because, should you drop one, it will fall 5 stories and it may take an international tribunal to get it back – we have only dropped a clothes pin so far.
Well that ends the tour of our Casa and – we do not have another 14 bedrooms, 18 bathrooms and combination indoor basketball court and bowling alley to show you. As they say on Cribs, peace-out.
We miss you one and all and hope you are doing well.
2 comments:
I didn't realize that the San Sebasian people had the Castillian lisp, which must make pronouncing your name interesting for the locals. (Don't feel bad though, even though the letters "ch" exist in the Spanish tounge, they always pronounced it "Merrr-theeee.") I hope you are sending lots of beach postcards back to the CE&E department to make them all jealous of your beach time!
-Kris
Cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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