Tired in San Sebastian 3/29-3/30

3/30 I´m going to be a little behind on the updates. I have a lot I need to do today and internet here is a little pricey (1.80 euro' an hour). I need to book most of my hostels (esp. for easter week, if I´m not too late already), reserve my train for tomorrow night, find a place to do laundry, I´m almost out of clothes (normally I´d just hand wash, but I´´d like the sick clothes to have a deep clean)

3-29
took a slow train to Hendaye at noon (the ticket said it would be 22 minutes, it was about 40 minutes to an hour), and then a commuter train to San Sebastian. It was 2 when I got in and as I wandered out of the station I felt a bit off. I took off my boots and brushed out my hair and laid out in the square with the others taking advantage of the siesta time. Dropped off my stuff into my hostel (more of an apartment for surfers it seems) and put on my sandals.

Found a cheap underground supermarket and got a .18 euro 2 liter bottle of water and 1 euro strawberrys (I think I´m going to live on strawberrys here. They are ripe, cheap and everywhere.) Ate strawberrys and crossaints on the ocean wall. The bay around San Sebastian looks suprisingly small compared to the pictures and videos I´ve seen of it. Took off my sandals and walked on the oceans edge, then wandered through town on the pedestrian boulavards.

....more later

3-30 it is overcast today, and I was planning on hiking up the mountain, but my eyes are pretty watery, which concerns me.(edited: I just realized! everywhere I go there are flowers and greenery. It´s never been proven but I do get minor allergy symptoms in the spring (though usually I just get very dry eyes)... so maybe I´m not going blind after all) Watery eyes usually the one clear sign I have that I am being really stupid with my body. but I´ve been getting 8 or 9 hours of sleep. maybe 7. I don´t know. I´ll just have to be good and go to bed before 10 tonight. I´m just trying to ease into the 2 hour time change (daylights savings and going to europe jumped me ahead yet again) but I did get a lot of my notes copied down last night, so it wasn´t that I was just staying up till midnight for the heck of it. And I learned a lot about what australian beer is the best. Something I´m sure will enrichen my life for sometime to come as I shop for my michelle-friendly single-serving bottles of wine.