I took French in school and was overamused by the term of endearment "mon petit chou-chou" (my little cabbage). The bi-weekly paper in Lasarte has a section of birthday and anniversary greetings, which can be pretty entertaining. My favorites are "pitufina" (Spanish for Smurfette) "txokomarrubizko muxu" (chocolate strawberry kiss), "paaa" (the sound of a kiss, which you only say for children) and "txipiroiak" (squids). This morning someone brave was climbing alone on Santa Barbara. I also saw a txantxangorri -the European robin. I should also note that Lasarte is on one version of the
Camino de Santiago, which is a pilgrimage to the shrine of Saint James that runs
through hundreds of kilometers among several different paths that you can take through a big chunk of Europe, ending in Galicia. It's like a Catholic Appalachian trail-you can get a Compostela, or certificate of completion of
the pilgrimage, under certain circumstances. Near the sign for Camino de Santiago are a bunch of temporary billboards for the upcoming elections. Can you imagine how much money the U.S. would save if it would restrict campaigns to the 2 weeks before the election? Every couple hours cars with bullhorns drive by, playing pre-recorded messages about their political party. It's almost like the internet nev
er happened...until you get political party ads on your Facebook page.
And lastly there is pie. Maple hazelnut-because there was still some maple syrup left from my last trip here in 2008 and because there are no pecans, but a mountain of hazelnuts. Thinking of Thanksgiving-
I took French in school and was overamused by the term of endearment "mon petit chou-chou" (my little cabbage). The bi-weekly paper in Lasarte has a section of birthday and anniversary greetings, which can be pretty entertaining. My favorites are "pitufina" (Spanish for Smurfette) "txokomarrubizko muxu" (chocolate strawberry kiss), "paaa" (the sound of a kiss, which you only say for children) and "txipiroiak" (squids). This morning someone brave was climbing alone on Santa Barbara. I also saw a txantxangorri -the European robin. I should also note that Lasarte is on one version of the Camino de Santiago, which is a pilgrimage to the shrine of Saint James that runs 
through hundreds of kilometers among several different paths that you can take through a big chunk of Europe, ending in Galicia. It's like a Catholic Appalachian trail-you can get a Compostela, or certificate of completion of 
the pilgrimage, under certain circumstances. Near the sign for Camino de Santiago are a bunch of temporary billboards for the upcoming elections. Can you imagine how much money the U.S. would save if it would restrict campaigns to the 2 weeks before the election? Every couple hours cars with bullhorns drive by, playing pre-recorded messages about their political party. It's almost like the internet nev
er happened...until you get political party ads on your Facebook page. 
And lastly there is pie. Maple hazelnut-because there was still some maple syrup left from my last trip here in 2008 and because there are no pecans, but a mountain of hazelnuts. Thinking of Thanksgiving-
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