A Tandem Trip in Spain From Biarritz Through the Basque Provinces the Countr
A Tandem Trip in Spain From Biarritz Through the Basque Provinces the Countr
William Hill James
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Valmaseda is a most picturesque old town, some twenty miles from Bilbao, but easily accessible by a small shuttle railway from that place. * The curious houses, the twisting streets, and above all, the quaint old narrow bridges over the tumbling river to which many of the houses form a border, together with the surrounding mountain scenery, all combine to make it an artist's paradise. The rough wooden balcony of our Fonda overhung the stream, and a tributary rivulet gurgled underneath our bedro...om window on the other side of the house. Here we tasted green walnuts made into a conserve, and very good they were. The Basque sweets are generally good, so are their soups and fish ; but their mutton and beef are cooked in oil, white in colour, and utterly distasteful to eye and palate. At one village we were taken to call on the Alcalde, or Mayor, who lived on a flat on the second floor over a rough sort of druggist's shop. He was much gratified, very civil, and pressed us to have chocolate, which we declined hoping to get away soon, but the news of our visit had evidently spread to all his relations, for " his uncles, his cousins and his aunts, " came dropping in one after another at intervals so that at last we * The railway now runs from Bilbao to Ramales.
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