My roots

Some posts before I talked about "real estate" in Bilbao, now I will try to show you something more. My roots. My home. What I will call home even if I live forever somewhere else. The places where I spent childhood and yet most of my life.

Bilbao is my hometown. Low density, 350,000 people. Low houses. Mild climate (9º-21º average). Quite rainny. Green. Surrounded by mountains and the sea just some km Northwards. The landmark and main attraction is the Guggenheim museum. Before it was an industrial city but after the crisis on the 80s it started to transform to a service oriented city. The museum's project was the starting point and since then the city has transformed, from a grey, dusty city to nowadays, when it is becoming nicer and nicer (more green areas, cleaner, best public transportation...).

Urdaibai, a biosphere reserve of Biscay, the place where we used to spend weekends and summers. Kanala is my mother's parents' town. Where they have a typical Basque country house. Mountains, beaches, one of the best waves in the world, little castle, the old meeting place of Basque people...

And some more pictures from around (Gaztelugatxe, Gorbea, Urkiola...) everything in less than 40km radius. Where I spend almost 100% of my time till I was 23 years old.

I recorded the video and took the pictures last time there, September 2007. I have taken some extra pictures from Flickr (1, 2, 3, 4 ...). The music, just extemporizing (some errors with the scale) above a base of an old song that I will record some day.