Nightmare in Bilbao

Bilbao, Spain is a very pleasant city, with lots of nice, new urban redevelopment in its city center (very typical of Spanish cities), a beautiful park promenade along the riverfront, and, of course the Frank Gehry designed Guggenheim Museum, with it's beautifully curving silver surfaces.

We parked along the riverfront promenade near the museum, with the bonus of free parking on Saturday afternoon.

We went to the museum and spent hours getting overwhelmed by their collections. The best pieces were the ones designed specifically for the spaces... Especially an installation of curved steel structures by Richard Sera (sp?) that you can walk through. The experience is a bit ruined by the security cameras on the ceiling though.

On coming back to our car, we noticed the glovebox was open. Bad sign. We always close and lock it before going anywhere.

Yes, it had happened. The camper was broken into. We lost our iPod, our computer, and various cables, chargers, etc. What we luckily did not lose, was our backup drive, so we will be able to recover our photos up to about three weeks ago, which is when we did our last backup. Unfortunately, we lost all of our photos of Spain and Portugal.

So now, we are in the rebuilding process, dealing with insurance and other fun things like that.

One good thing... The Spanish police are really nice!

-SK