My little trip to Spain with Tobi!

After not going home for the Christmas holidays, a part of home came to me! On December 28th, my 'little' brother came to visit and we explored Spain together!

Since he landed in Bilbao, we first explored the city together and then tried to find the hostel, which took us a while... We arrived soaking wet and took a break before going back into the city later (by bus, there could have been a direct connection!)

The next day, we took a boat trip in Bilbao and then we were already on our way to Madrid on a luxury bus - without booking it, we had a bus with movies, games, internet access, and time flew by!

Our room in Madrid wasn't great, but we didn't spend much time there anyway. We were good sightseeing tourists and explored many parts of the city. We accidentally passed by some places multiple times, but that's just me as a tour guide ;) Even though I had been there before, I saw a lot of new things as well. The Retiro Park that fascinated me in the fall wasn't as beautiful in the winter, but the city's Christmas lights were just gorgeous!

On December 31st, we continued to Valencia. My plan was to spend New Year's Eve by the sea, but we decided to celebrate in front of the town hall and try to eat grapes together with many others, but neither of us managed to eat them at that speed...

The next day, we wanted to explore the city with a tourist bus, but after waiting for a long time without a bus coming, we found out that there were no tours on January 1st, so we tried to explore on our own. We took the bus to the beach instead of the snow!

In Burgos, Tobi met my family here and of course, we also explored the city, which is by far the smallest of the 4 cities. I didn't know the monastery 'Las Huelgas' myself and somehow we ended up in a guided tour faster than we wanted - in Spanish, of course, so it wasn't that exciting for Tobi.

Despite that, everything would have been great if it hadn't been for Tobi's phone breaking on the last evening. At least we were able to solve everything for the flight....

On January 4th, we went back to Bilbao, where we arrived way too early, but we made ourselves comfortable at the small airport until Tobi boarded his flight and I drove back home.

The rest will be told by the (many) pictures, enjoy!