It's just on vacation.
we have arrived in Spain. Hey
We're currently walking along the coast to a site that Steven has always wanted to see
good morning everybody.
Welcome to Spain. It's so exciting that we are finally in this country
I swear when we're doing Portugal last year on our family holiday
So many of you said, why aren't you going to Spain? And here we are?
so we just went and ordered some breakfast in bed a bit of a cheeky coffee and
I'll sure excursions for the day of actually arrived, but we'll get to that
Nothing like having breakfast
So this actually isn't our first taste of Spain because yesterday
we stopped off for a few hours at the sleepy port town of La Coruna
and we spent the afternoon roaming through the cute little streets
And we have arrived
in Spain
And just like that. We look her in eye. You literally walk off the ship two minutes later
You're at the old town one thing we've just learned about Spain. Is that on a Monday?
Everyone just likes to take the day off. So
Nothing is really open today, which is actually quite nice
We just get to stroll through the streets and just kind of enjoy it quite peaceful at the moment
This is something super unique about this port stop is there's actually a Roman lighthouse
It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site
because this thing was built in the second century and it is still working today
It's always 2,000 years old imagine building it and thinking in 2,000 years. They'll still be using it
So towering over us when people would have seen this like in the second century coming through on their boats
This probably would have looked like the equivalent of maybe you know
the sky rising divided like this would have been such a marvel to look at and
It's still today all these thousands of years later
It still is a marvel now
but now we're here in Bilbao, and we've got a big day planned
So you've actually booked our shore excursions through the cruise
and we have so much fun stuff planned for you guys today
So we're just going to head down into the city of Bilbao and show you what to do around here
So we're starting our morning here and a little cafe
and we are trying our first tortilla for the very first time
it is basically like a Spanish omelets it's made of egg and potato
and we've got some coffees and it's been served up with some bread
It's kind of cool because when you go into the cafes, they have all the food just in front
so you just choose whatever you want and then they'll make your coffee or your drink
and then you just don't come to that meter. But I've always wanted to try one of these
Take a potato and egg
It's like a super thick potato we omelette that's really good and that will probably fill you up for the day
our first cheers in Spain
Cheers
So we're currently in the north of Spain and I did not realize how green and luscious it is here
We're currently walking along the coast to a site that Stephen has always
Wanted to see so not too sure if you guys know but I'm a huge Game of Thrones fan
We have done a few trips where we've gone to filming locations and in season seven
There was this episode and when it aired I swear the first thing I said to Jess was
we need to visit that spot and then we did some googling found out it was here in Spain and
York the beauty of it all is is that it's not all
CG there's this beautiful bridge that goes across to this island
and I think when you initially watch it, you're like, oh, yeah
That's probably a set
But it's not and we're right here at the spot
Welcome to Castle Rock or Dragonstone if you watch Game of Thrones
I've become a drifter with no limit I can too
So I think what I love so much about the scene is this bridge and everything is real of course
they've just added an epic Castle Dragonstone at the top but this whole walkway is real and it's
Amazing. I
literally feel like I'm in game occurrence right now. Like how many
And I say that calm your cries
No thunder rolling in your bones. No
We've made it to the top but no there is no dragon stone castle
But there is a church built in the 10th century and they say that if you ding this bell three times
Your wish will come true
It's gonna ding that Bell
That was not one easy feat
There's a church up here built for John the Baptist and and if you were to come to service up here
You were dedicated. That is a long walk every Sunday
So we've now come into the old quarter of Bilbao and this place is so cute
There's all these beautiful little narrow alleyways with balconies with flowers on them
and we love trying to pintxos this morning
So today for lunch, we've decided we're gonna go and try a lot more pintxos
whenever he comes in Europe
I can never get over the cobblestone walkways when you're just coming through the old quarters
Thank you
We just grabbed a bunch of pinpxos
Basically a bunch of seafood seeing as we're so close to the coastline and we found one that has camembert
And sun-dried tomato and quince and it looks amazing as I'm spending my favorite and we got sangria
We tried this one time in Portugal, but now we're actually in Spain turning sangria is basically like a cold fruity wine
Cheers Steve, I definitely feel like I'm insane now
So we grabbed a big plate of grilled prawns
These are called bruschetta and it's got thorns and octopus again more seafood. I think she said this was smoked Cod
We've drawn and this is the one I talked up before this is the one I've been most excited to try
This one
Hmm this is such good finger food
If you're just coming to a pub because it feels like we're currently in like a Spanish bar at the moment
It tastes like camembert cheese
With a little bit of chances like that sweet and cheese taste if you like that
Huh when you just look at what you've ordered and even though it's a bunch of finger food
It literally looks like an entire meal just in front of us. I realized why we love Pintxos so much
It's because you can order release food have a giant meal and literally try six or seven different things and the flavors are
amazing
I feel like this is like the only small little taste we've had a Spain so far
I'm sure there are so many more things that we need to do and see and learn about Spain
So make sure if you want us to come back, this is the last stop here in Spain
Make sure you comment below where we need to go what we need to do what we need to try
Yeah, we love this place. Some would say we've had a pintxos taste of Spain
Morning boss. Have you seen how flat the water is today, huh?
Like I did not expect it when the girls are in the Caribbean not like off the coast of the UK and France and stuff
but today
is a sea day and I'm starting to think that sea days are one of my favorite parts about a cruise because they are just
So relaxing and today we have big plans to relax
So at this spot on the South I princess called the sanctuary
And it's kind of like a retreat on the ship
So you can lock in for a morning or afternoon session. You just go in there relax
We may booked in some cheeky massages and they have like healthy foods and juices
I think they have our own private like pool area and spa
Yeah, and there's some saunas and thermal areas that we can go relax in so that that's today plans. That is literally today's plans
alrighty
starting off our
relaxing day with some fresh juices
Overlooking the sea this is the sanctuary just here. So this whole section on the front of the boat
The deck is actually well where they tried the boat is just below us
Which is kind of us just relaxing here. Yeah, there's like barely going around which is super nice downstairs
there's hot saunas a hot spa almost like a private pool cuz
no one is around
Yeah, which is so nice
That is just on vacation
We've just come into the steam room
Let me fix this way you guys
See you later. just about to have a nice little massage, but we'll see you guys on the other end
that was my first time I always sleep from my massage
oh my gosh
I was so tired you know
It was like a 50-minute. Did you pick the ginger? Did you pick the other one? I do them with the ginger
so it was like a body scrub and then I had a back in shoulder massage say
Yeah
15 minutes of almost like napping
Yes, I relaxing so seen as we're in the retreat side of the cruise
We thought let's go for a little bit healthy with our fresh juices
We got a bit of a dip with some different salads and then we've gone for a tuna salad
This is probably how we should have eaten for most of the cruise
We're probably gonna order a slice of pizza do this subway
Bonjour everybody
Welcome to France. Alrighty, we tried our red wine and now it's time to try it some French cuisine
in this beautiful chateau