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This is no ordinary teddy bear outside the Guggenheim Museum.

This teddy bear is made of flowers.

And it's enormous.

Birds and bees live in this teddy bear...

and gigantic spiders live outside the Guggenheim.

Time for some food in Bilbao - a bottle of wine but Fredrik's driving.

Ah well, Nai will have to help him out.

Happy Nai, hours later in Sotres in the mountains.

And Fredrik's making hay while the sunshines.

Sotres by night from our balcony.

Sotres in the morning, the mountain in the distance is where we want to be later that day.

Starting at the fern fields.

Nice and flat and picturesque. The mountains look so far away.

Fredrico looking gorgeous in his local hat (later worn as a scarf).

We look up to the snowline - hopefully we'll get there today.

Up in the mountains and the cloud closes in fast.

We're walking in the air...

Nearly at the snow 4 hours later - sweaty, tired, not much water left.

We get to the triangular rock, a short distance from the Refugio.

We've reached the snowline and turn around before we get stranded.

Thanks for a great walk, let's go home.

Next day, still aching, we ride the funicular to Bulnes and enter the valley...

into the cave...

up the waterfall.

Do I look like a tourist?

No, what makes you say that? We look just like the locals.

It's a bit cloudy in here.

But very pretty.

Mmm, tasty Magnum for the best climber in Bulnes today.

Now we leave the mountains, down the snake paths and drive to the civilised and picturesque Santiana del Mar.

On the drive back up the coast, Fredrik catches some rays at Las Comillas.

Pretty good view.

Excellent, we're in San Sebastian. We're ready for the Jazz Festival.

/Spain's answer to Brazil's Sugar Loaf Mountain. Fredrik wonders if the chicks will have the same beachwear as in Rio de Janeiro.

Climbing the mountain at 1pm in 30degrees heat -good plan!

But the view is sooo worth it.

And that's the beach we'll be on in an hour or so.

Wow, stunning.

But first to the top of the mountain. Jesus, how did they get him up here?

Nai makes Fredrik do his Samson pose.

And again.

Just once more darling.

Let's go to the beach now.

Through the forest.

And via some tasty tapas in San Sebastian.

Mmmm.

And then to the beach to do some bodysurfing.

And here's what we climbed earlier. Bye bye España.

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