Our big adventure today was visiting the town of Puente Viesgo about a half hour from where we’re staying. Puente VIesgo is a beautiful little town built on a river in between some rolling hills. It’s famous for its cave paintings.. We were able to get tickets to tour two  of the caves. Cueva  de la  Moenda, Cueva El  Castillo . 
Before we hiked up to the caves we had a great lunch in a restaurant overlooking the river in town..   checkout gabes tounge after eating pasta with squid ink !

the town was really bustling because there was a bike race that started there this morning.. made it a little hard to drive around.. but it didn’t take away from our fun

 

 

After lunch, we walked up the mile or so to the caves. It was a nice climb through some really pretty countryside

The caves ha e some painintgs by ealry humans.. soem dating back as far as 40,000 years.. and many dating back to the last ice age 13,000 years ago.. there were cave paintings  deer, bison and many drawings of hands made by blowing pigment across a hand held to the wall. We werent allowed to take pictures in there.. but I’ll post some I can find on the web. 

THe caves were very cool to see.. great guides.. the tours were in spanish which was fun for me, becky and gabe  who all speak some  rusty spanish  

here are some pictures I found on the web of some of the stuff we saw

We ended the day with a great meal in a mexican restaurant.. which is hard to find in spain !

Max and becky headed back to bilbao to catch their plane tomorrow.. so we said goodbye to them .. Its been so nice having this time with them.. 

DDiane, Gabe and I headed back to Vega de Pas for one more night

nite all. nite sam

-me