Music, convivial conversation and a laconic revelry spills onto the pavements. Refreshments are served through windows, which have been converted into bars.
In the narrow streets traders hawk their wares. This one offering Cheeses, on a 'try before you buy' basis. Others bread and sweetmeats.
A busker strums her mandolin, perched solitary on a wall, beside the ferry steps.
Pasaia is an unreconstructed seaport town. Cargo ships constantly loading and unloading on its quays.
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Its waterfront only lightly gentrified.
Pleasure craft tolerated, but not pandered to.
Ships are the lifeblood of the town. Coming and going with a surprising frequency, given the narrow (if very deep) entrance to the ria and the close confines within.
Pasaia is also the most overtly Basque town, which Stargazer has so far visited. The default greeting here is the Basque "Kaixo," not the Spanish "Hola."
Murals, in support of the full independence of Euskal Herria (The Basque Country). adorn the stonework of the streets.
In the plaza there is bonhomie, drinking and dance. . . . .
. . . . .Before buildings hung about with banners, which protest (in the Basque tongue) the rights of Basque 'prisoners and fugitives.'
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