Racism in the Basque Region

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Hola a todos. En San Sebastián, Gipuzkoa, España, tengo un apartamento en venta en primera línea con vistas al mar (79 m cuadrados) con mirador desde el salón y un balcón francés que va desde la cocina hasta el dormitorio. Está en el borde del casco antiguo (parte vieja), muy céntrico, al lado de buenas escuelas, tiendas, el mercado y la vida nocturna. Allí también se ha abierto un nuevo centro médico, que se encuentra detrás del edificio. Todas las habitaciones tienen vistas al mar excepto el baño que es interior. El estado es muy bueno y actualmente es de 1 dormitorio, pero se puede convertir en 2 dormitorios/2 baños. Hay conserjería 24 horas y vistas al mar abierto y a la playa de surf de Zurriola. El rendimiento del alquiler es del 4% anual. Por favor envíame un whatsapp al +34 664882603 para más detalles y concertar una visita. El coste es de 650.000 euros para una venta rápida.

Excited to post my 5th Post on Racism in Spain and specifically on the Basque Region, soon. Watch this space!

Good morning everyone!

I can officially declare that Spain has the most difficult banking system in all the first world countries that I’ve lived in.

I have been twice now to Kutxa Bank in San Sebastián. They wouldn’t allow me to pay cash for my community expenses and the IBI for the town hall, where both accounts of those entities were in their bank.

Apparently, they no longer accept cash from people who don’t hold an account at their branch ( like Moi). A few months ago, they did.

Is this legal? I was told by a banker at Caixa Bank, that it isn’t. There must ALWAYS be a window of opportunity for non account holders of that bank, to pay for things in cash at the bank. Sabadell, Santander and other banks have it.

When I asked for the libro de reclamaciones, they wouldn’t give it to me. They also insisted they knew the law when I told them what they were doing is illegal. Any lawyers on here to clarify if what they’re doing is legal?

When I said I would open a bank account with Kutxa to make these payments easier, they said they only open accounts with a contract of employment. I am self employed so they wouldn’t accept that my incomes per month are different = impossible to open a bank account with them!? I have been to other banks and this is not an issue.....

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Our photos from Sunday October 18th, 2020.

On our next hike, we decided to do the beautiful, undulating coastline of The Flysch. Sounding Germanic in name, but all Female in Nature, this beautiful Goddess of a trail was also a scene stealer in the Netflix Series, Game of Thrones.

We had many mini adventures, new routes and discoveries along the way. It was a fun group with good camaderie and many topics of conversation along the way to keep us entertained.

A hike which we thought would take 4 hours ended up taking 6 because we climbed down steep cliffs with ropes and were distracted by the animals and the beauty of the rock formations that we met along the way.

Sea anemones, octopus, potokos, lazy cows, stray baby cats and a black accordion centipede with a yellow sting tail, made our day. Even a Moroccan member of our group was offered tea by other Moroccans while the rest of us had to wait, trying to figure out where we were on the map. Aupa, Aupa, Aupa, a word we kept repeating throughout the day as others passed us by.

The sun hit our thankful bodies the entire day, such gratitide for its existence, especially after we had endured days and weekends of constant rain. At the end of the hike we did some yoga inversions and were greeted by a wild surf beach where we happily shed our muddy clothing and ran into the sea - sans wetsuits.

The searing cold stung us for the first seconds but then we were slapped constantly by the tide and enveloped in its arms, and suddenly we were cold no more, warmed by the energy of her powerful waves. It became a fun game while we bobbed up and down, everyone else watching us from the beach and thinking we were crazy to go in, as we kept repeating that we were hot hot hot when we were actually cold cold cold.

When we came out, we suddenly realised how exhausted and hungry we were and left to the nearest hipster bar for a much needed and hearty, late lunch.

Then home. And a VERY good nights sleep.

Our photos of the hike to P***s de Aia on October 12th, 2020.

We started Basque Country Explorers with the intention of forming a Sport and The Arts Activities group for English speakers, where the focus of us being together did not involve alcohol and nightlife ( something very hard to achieve in Spain ).

We hope to see the group grow as more expats move to the Basque Country and join in our activities.

This hike was the wonderful P***s which we personally love as they are a mix of hiking and bouldering/scrambling - YES, you need to get on your hands and knees for much of it and the trail is full of hidden surprises and adventurous turns. This means that NO ONE comes back without serious mud on their clothes, hands and shoes.

We had a strong team. A good, sturdy, solid bunch of people who attacked the trail with much gusto and passion. It was a GREAT GROUP and the team work together was solid and supportive.

We had planned a Shamanistic practitioner/leader to take us on this hike, but it was a long holiday weekend and he disappeared after confirming plans with me on Friday - so we were left to our own devices on Monday morning, which was a shock to me. We guess he got lost in the mountains doing whatever it is that Shamans do, but we shouldn't have been so surprised, this being Spain. We do however admit, that people disappearing on you in the Basque Country rarely happens, as there is more reliability here than the rest of the country - but then we remembered that he was Argentinian. So, we couldn't apply our Spanish/Basque theories of punctuality or reliability on him. He was just someone in his own world that decided our trust was not important to him. Somebody then, ironically, that we cannot trust in the mountains.

Therefore, we had to assume the role of guide that Monday morning, only remembering parts of the trail as we had been around 4 times before, always with different people that walked it in different ways.

Luckily, some team members had an extra car, so even though the leader didn't show up with his, we managed to get everyone to the mountains. At the restaurant where we parked our cars and took a cortado, we calmly explained that our esoteric guide was MISSING, thereby throwing the arranged Shamanistic Rituals that we were looking forward to practicing with the group on the peaks, out the window. The group said that yes, let's go ahead. It was the only option we had.

The hike was beautiful. No one was out because we had gone through a week of constant rain in Gipuzkoa, so it was just us, a man in a very bright neon shirt ( good to spot if we got lost but he ended up following us ) and a bonafide French couple who didn't seem prepared for the climb and were content to follow us. We followed the cues that I remembered from previous hikes, and after briefly getting lost, and discovering a couple of caves along the way, we managed to mount all 3 peaks - leaving the last one to our imagination - as we had to think about safety first and the trail disappeared into nothingness beyond the third peak. If we had take a different route, it would have been easier, but the boys were off like mountain goats, finding the most tricky parts of the mountains for us to scramble up.

As we came down the mountain, it started to lightly drizzle - the kind of rain you love to run and swim in the sea with.

The Basque term for such a delight is Sirimiri - the fishermen named it this way because it is a constant drizzle at sea which never leaves you feeling quite dry.

Hiking back to the restaurant, we were hungry and found a new trail that we had never seen before, which the locals had created
- just for them. Such surprises every time - the P***s will always feel like new to us, everytime we hike them.