We boarded the train in Madrid and arrived to the cool sea breezes of San Sebastain around 10pm. Realizing that the tourist info would be closed, we made our way without a map to Ss Surf-camp hostel. It is located here:

Paseo Colon 17 San Sebastian

And we found a nice room for two. It lacks windows, but other than that, is in a great location. A bit hungry for the rumored tapas, we walked down the main streets where we were surprised to find most things closed.Sure it was a Tuesday night, but come on..a beach town, closed? We settled on a place that still about 10 plates called Rojo & Negro and enjoyed a few before heading back and catching up on sleep.

Today we awoke and went in search of vegetarian food and to take in the sights by the light of day. After much searching, we found out from a woman working a natural food store in the centro comercial that we were not far from a place with vegi choices called Tendone. She had forgotten the name and exact location, so again we were at the mercy of our map and inquires in worse-than-I-remembered-Spanish, We luckily found it around 3pm and ate a sumptuous feasts for 15 euros each including soup, salad, bread, two entrees, wine and dessert. The have a traditional menu written in the language unique to this Basque area.To make it easier for you:

Tendone Jatetxea begetarianoa eta tradizional Corta 10 20001 donostai tel: 943 273 561

We then found our way to the beach (what else in a beach town?) and enjoyed the great waves famous for surfing. It was surprisingly less crowded than in Italy, and we stayed until the tide came in a chased us away. Later we plan to do some tapas—Txiquiteo (chih-kee-TAY-oh)is the word for hopping from bar to bar, enjoying small sandwiches and tiny snacks and glasses of wine and take in some more of the old city.