The weekend in Lazkao

This weekend we stayed in the convent which is next door to the school. Some who know me may find it surprising that I, being the chain smoking, hard drinking, Lord´s name in vain taking kind of guy that I am, would elect to stay in a house of nuns. I only dealt with one, Encarna, who was elderly and kind. My room was small but had a great bathroom. I met the parish priest, Juan Mari, and he drove us up to one of the mountains and we hiked for a few hours early Sunday morning. But the xirimiri forced us to go back.

We walked one town over to Beasain and we were delighted to find that nothing was open. We walked up the highway to Lazkaomendi, which has one restaurant and other than that, is just farm houses. We walked to a small town past Lazkaomendi, Zaldibia.  We´re in beautiful country. We ate in the restaurant in Lazkaomendi and an old bertsolari sang to us.

This is by far a better ¨Basque Country¨ experience than you can enjoy in a big city like Bilbao or Donosti. Everybody speaks Basque and outside of this small city, it´s very rural. When not in class, all there is to do here is walk around, speak Basque, eat, drink and smoke cigarrettes. But, those are pretty much my favorite things to do anywhere, so what better place than here, eh?

4 thoughts on “The weekend in Lazkao

  1. Igor

    It seems you are starting to have good “Basque” experiences… any plans for next weekend already? do you need any suggestion?

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    1. Cody Beaudreau Post author

      Asteburu honetan Bilbon egongo gara, baina eskerrik asko for offering suggestions. I may ask you for some later on! Ondo pasa, agur!

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  2. Ken Beaudreau

    Hey Cody, Excellent blog…..sound like a lot of fun….Dan says hello..Gma loved the video…hope to hear from you soon……Dad

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    1. Cody Beaudreau Post author

      So because of that infamous video my popularity has risen. The Statesman got wind of it and now they want to interview us before Jai Aldi. Someone else from the Basque Country sent me a message and he´s going to study at BSU next year and he wants to talk to me about that. I think that´s pretty cool, eh? Well, today we´re off to Bilbao, I´m going to try to call you tomorrow or Sunday, talk to you then, bye!

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