Basque Country

We've just arrived back from Bilbao. It was a really lovely trip. The
concert in the Euskaldi Theatre was just great. It's a magnificant venue,
designed to look like a ship being built. It's our second time playing
there, and the audience were great - luckily many of them could understand
me!

We were invited to do a radio program with the Basque radio station - Radio
Euskadi, - the name of the program was La Jungla Sonora - and it was a
pleasure to meet Joseba. Our escort for the short trip was Naiara - a very
beautiful girl from Bermeo. She translated all the questions from Joseba.
Naiara was a pleasure and looked after us very well. She drove us to our
first concert in Mungia. It was in a 200 year old building which had been
converted into an Arts theatre, as well as class rooms for music lessons.
Wonderful warm audience.

We were lucky to have an afternoon to browse around the Guggenheim Museum,
where there was a wonderful exhibition of Russian art and collections. I
could have stayed all day but work had to be done!

So our short trip was over and we headed off home to dismal Dublin - will
the weather ever be any good?