Staying at an elderly woman's house...

Well, so far we have stayed in Barcelona, Spain for two nights; Cadaques, Spain for one night (on the way out of Cadaques I decided it would be a good idea to scrape the right side of the rental car along a stone building [for those of you who know us well, the "I" refers to Elizabeth Dennemann not Chris Welch... surprising, I know :)]  ... I guess we won't be getting that deposit back!!!!); Perpignan, France for one night; La Seu d'Urgell, Spain for one night; AND San Sebastian for two nights (last night and tonight).

Most of the places we have stayed, thus far, have been rather pleasant! That said, we are currently staying in an elderly womans home!!!!!!!!!! We knew San Sebastian was going to be an extremely busy town, but we did not realize that ever hotel, hostel, and camp ground was going to be booked. We arrived in San Sebastain in mid-evening, so the three of us decided to divide and conquer our immediate tasks at hand... find somewhere to park the car and find somewhere to sleep for the night. We decided Sean would find a place to park the car, while Welch and I tried to locate a place to lodge for the night.

Around our twentieth "there is no room in the inn", we began to feel a lot like Mary and Joseph on Christmas Eve. However, when we were seriously considering just crashing on the beach (even though it is only about 10 degrees celcius, which converts to about 50 degrees fahrenheit), we were approached by an elderly woman. She stated she rented rooms and wondered if we needed a room for the night. We took down her name and phone number, but continued our pilgrimage to find lodging. Finally, after our thirtieth "there is no room in the inn", we broke down and called Guillermaina (the elderly woman we previously met).

All three of us, and Guillermania, boarded a local bus and rode to her house. There she showed us a room that contained two twin beds and a private bathroom... she suggested we lash the two beds together with rope and then all three of us sleep in "one big bed".

Even though Welch was intrigued with the private bath and the private balcony AND Sean mentioned how "very cozy" we would be for the night, we asked Guillermania if she had any other rooms available. She then showed us another room that contained 4 beds, but no private bathroom. Discussing the fact that we had no desire to share two twin beds and we had no desire to freeze on the beach, we decided to take the room that contained 4 beds and share a bathroom with two guys from Finland!!!!!!!!

Right around this point, Sean told Welch and me that we had FAILED completing our task, and he had SUCCESFFULLY completed his task :)

Although it was not the best night of sleep any of us ever recevied, we were not huddling together on the beach trying to stay warm :)