Early start today as you are supposed to have your luggage downstairs by 8:00am for pickup. (Of course it wasn’t picked up till well after 11:00am). A four hour walk along the river, past the Guggenheim to Portugalete. All paved, so even though not a long day a little tough on the feet. Portugalete is an interesting place. First, go here by crossing the river on a carrier bridge, I have never seen this before and it might be the only one in the world. Basically a platform that carrys cars and people, suspended from wires, see photos. Then, the town is on a hillside sufficiently steep that it has moving sidewalks to take you up the hills. Very cool. I’m in an old school 4* hotel so no complaints there. The town has a great energy with lots of sidewalk tables and bars, tons of parents with children, a great waterfront promenade. In the smaller town category of places I have visited in Spain this would be tops with Gernika close by. In the bigger towns. San Sebastián and Sevilla get the nod, although Bilbao has substantially grown on me from an initial negative to now I quite like it. 27,291 steps.