Having arrived in Irun late from Bordeaux, we missed our connecting train to Barcelona on the Saturday afternoon and could not get on another train till Monday morning. This unexpected stopover led to us both being highly stressed, annoyed and having to forfeit 2 nights accomodation in Barcelona.
We exited Irun train station and checked into the first hotel we could find. For 35 euro a night we found the biggest dive! My bed had bloodstains on it and David's was filthy. Though, we did have our own bathroom and balcony that overlooked a small ghetto.
After having a quick rest, we decided to venture into town and see what the town had to offer us. After finding the tourist information centre we found out that there was a fiesta on tonight, unfortunately David had to return by himself as whilst we were having dinner. -(for entree - some very very tasty stuffed olives and then a beautiful seafood paella for 9.50 euro at Meson del Jamon I had a case of food poisoning from lunch).
After David arrived back to the Hotel around 12.30pm, it became evident that the Hotel was a "sexy-time" hotel - meaning that it grew very noisy and didn't settle down till about 7.30am. Doors opening and closing, ladies of the night, propositions out the front of the hotel, screams, knocks on our door - we were both fearing that we would not make it through the night alive.
After not much sleep and worrying about our safety we searched for another place to stay around 10am. We ended up checking out and moving into another hotel across the road. This one was such an improvement! Having solved our accomodation problem we decided to head into Hondarribia, a town about 5 minutes away from Irun.
It is an old medieval town near a bay, we spent about 1 hour walking around the "old town" and then headed into the "new town" for a bite to eat. We found "Bar Ondarribi", a delightful little tapas bar, where we got free prawns with our meal of Champinones (mushrooms); Sardines and Pulpo Gallega (Octupus with paprika and potatos).
It has been an interesting little stop-over, one that was unfortunately unplanned, but nice to see Hondarribia. don't think we will return at a later stage though.
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