Spain Day -1 Bilbao

We arrived in Bilbao Thursday which gives us one day to rest up and see the sites before the start of Day 1, pick-up at the airport by Thomson Tours and the start of the Cantabria Challenge. 

Today we went to the Guggenheim Museum, then to lunch with a customer of Craig´s (who left tickets for the Guggenheim at our hotel this am - typical Spaniard hospitality!).  We are staying at the Hotel Carlton, c. 1921.  Today there is a revolution according to a local.  Paris Hilton checks in.  Can´t wait. 

I read a very good bike book on the plane, It´s All About the Bike, by Robert Penn, a diary of putting together a custom bike.  VA, I will loan you my copy.  You should have written it when you were getting your IF! He even gets a headset from Chris King and Vanilla Bicycles gets a mention.  DT Swiss rims and Sapim spokes - you have to read the rest to find out what color he chooses.  

Mark told me not to whine.  OK, so can I buttache?  From the above mentioned book: 

Buttache - v.i. (slang) to complain, whining about saddle sore from riding a bicycle.