A little bit more about Bilbao

Hello, everyone.

We stayed a couple of days in Bilbao, just to rest and recuperate a little, and since there have already been some posts about the city, this will be brief.

En route from Larrabetzu, a kind lady invited me to borrow her restroom. This was entirely unexpected, but very gratefully received. She was a true Camino Angel for me. After that, feeling somewhat unsettled, we took the train into the city.

 This is a baptistry, the place in the church where people are baptized into the faith. The Easter candle is there, convenient for use during the rite. (I think I remember this as being in the Church of St. Nicholas.) There is a sculpture of the First Luminous Mystery of the Rosary, Jesus being baptized in the river Jordan by His cousin St. John, in the niche behind the basin.

This is a very, very old tabernacle. It may be of white stone with bronze doors, but the people of that time beautified it with carvings.

This was my first time to eat the very traditional Spanish breakfast food called Pan con Tomate: toasted bread with fresh tomato (chopped or shredded) and olive oil. It was wonderful!

When we left Bilbao, we rode the metro over to Portugalete and began walking there.