Don've never been in Ostia in particular, or the Basque in general. This weekend, taking advantage of the Festival of San Sebastian and the floor of a friend who kindly invited me, I can say I've been in both places.
De San Sebastian everyone always says is beautiful, and they're right. In my San Sebastian only 2 things I conjured up so far.
one hand, a bit of idol worship fan phenomenon, being the homeland (and current housing too) of Don Fernando Savater. I must say that I have few real idols, characters we truly admire your courage, intellectual prowess, humor or other number of reasons. Ferdinand is undoubtedly one of them, on the short list of my mind which is also another Fernando Arrabal, Chiquito de la Calzada, or Jesus Quintero. But Savater is special, I've read almost all his work (in book, newspaper articles are too numerous to keep track) and I love how he writes, as he thinks, as it is and as it says it all. So there I was walking along the Playa de la Concha or tapas in the bars of the Old Town, like to think that some of my footsteps coincided in space (not time, because that would be a full-fledged stamp) with the Master.
On the other hand, the second thing that made me remember San Sebastian was the subject of the "Basque conflict", or more clearly the bastard gunmen who kill people involved in cowardice, and that support, justify or simply silent. Anyway, one thing is seeing the demonstrations on TV and another to see your shirt borrokinis "Where's Waldo?" through the center of San Sebastian. And yet there is a small city, but there are little details that do not breathe in a normal climate. Another balcony with some flags for "Euskal Euskal Herrira Presoak, some menus in restaurants at all least in English language imaginable, etc. But also a bar where they placed the semifinals of Eurobasket, and the flag of Spain is now (I think that since the ruling PSOE thereabouts) presides over the balcony of City Hall in San Sebastian.
Surely a highly recommended place where I want to go back (with more time!)
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