Next on the trip was Bilbao - the most important industrial city in Spain. When we arrived, it was freezing cold there, much colder than in San Sebastian. So we had to be strategic with our day planning to make sure that we used public transport to the fullest (tram, bus, metro).
Most of our visit was focused on the Guggenheim museum, and believe it or not, we were probably in the museum for about 6 hours total. If I remember correctly, there are 3 main floors in the museum, with more than 8 exhibition rooms on each floor. Outside of the museum there is a large flower sculpture of a Yorkshire Terrier, another metal sculpture of tulips, and others that we didn't walk to because it was too damn cold. The 2 main expositions were "300 years of Art in America" and "Surrealism". The permanent exposition is a bit difficult to describe without a picture -- it's humongous pieces of metal that are formed into spirals and other forms and you walk inside of them. Imagine that there are 12 foot high walls of metal all around you and you walk through the path to find that it's just a wavy path or it's a spiral and all of a sudden you are in the middle of it. Pretty cool.
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