1 and 8 September: two unmissable days of racing in La Concha

Are you visiting San Sebastian in May and want to take the opportunity to learn some Basque words or phrases?

In San Sebastian we not only look to the sea when we want to admire the incomparable La Concha bay. Long before the sea became a source of fun and beauty, way back in the 16th century, the sturdy Basque fishermen, those strapping Northern lads, would set out into the wild Atlantic to hunt for whales in a rowboat that has evolved into what we know today as the trainera.

I’ve just met Sheila at the campus party. I spoke to her in Basque, thinking that she was around these parts, because by the look of her she could have come from Azpeitia, Vitoria-Gasteiz or the El Antiguo district. But as it happens, she doesn´t. She’s Sheila, the English friend of my flatmate who’s…