We’re back. Had a great weekend in Bilbao. The Guggenheim was fantastic, we spent 8 hours in there on Friday visiting the exhibition Art in the U.S.A.: Three Hundred Years of Innovation– which was brilliant and Surreal Things – which was very interesting. We left to do some exercise, use the Hammam in the hotel and then we returned for a lovely ‘degustation’ menu at the posh restaurant inside the gallery that evening.

Pretty much everything else in Bilbao paled after such a fabulous day…

The hotel was good. The Phillipe Starck designed bathtubs were brilliant. Long enough and deep enough to float in – I don’t think I’ve ever been so clean. The buffet breakfasts on the top floor were fab, and the view of the Guggenheim was superb – but the wine in the cocktail bar at apperitif hour was just so-so and the receptionist downstairs that kept getting everything wrong didn’t bode well for the hotels 5 star status.

I wouldn’t have changed a thing though. It was a great weekend, in a great city, with great company. Hopefully we’ll do it again soon in either Lisbon or Valencia.

Me, Michelle & Michel – our day at the Guggenheim