Greetings from Pais Vasco

All jet-lagged from her East Coast trip a few days back, Wander Iggy's dainty feet started itching again. And it's not athlete's foot. :) Waking up on an early Saturday morning in Amsterdam, we trudged our heavy human-sized baggage and headed South er... North, in the land of pintxos, the Nervion river and Euskera.

Bilbao is the capital of the province of Biscay, an autonomous community in the Basque province. Formerly a heavy industrial town, this metropolitan area was transformed--revitalized, as they describe it. Usually associated with the 'Guggenheim Effect', the city delivered beyond the iconic structure's symbolic association by winning the Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize (reads: the Pritzker of Urban Planning) at the World Cities Summit in May 2010.

More Pictures, hopefully soon. :)

XOXO
Wander Iggy and the Becky

This city will be Wander Iggy's home por seis meses. 

El Museo de Guggenheim. This makes for Miss Iggy's second Guggenheim museum 

and second Gehry sighting. This picture was taken from the other side of the river. 

Can you see the Maman as well? 

Just across the Guggenheim is our new hang out: the University of Deusto. 

Oh my, that's a very big gracht. :)

'Gee, he's not a puppy anymore.' :) Or, as the Spanish call it, el perro. 

Miss Iggy at New York's Guggenheim Museum

Wander Iggy (formerly known as Singapurple Iggy) is currently in the Land of the Free and Cold Stone ice cream. Armed with a list of things to do, places to see and outlets to go to, one of her first stops is at the Solomon Guggenheim Museum (a.k.a. the Guggenheim) at Upper East side Manhattan. The Becky's brother upon seeing this picture can't help but point out the uncanny similarities of the building built in 1959,  with SM North Edsa's car park. Oh well, at least it pioneered on car park design. :)

Let's just say you wouldn't want to drop your coins from the highest level and chase it down the spiral ramp. 

Afterwards, wearing her special 'raincoat', Miss Iggy sauntered off at 5th Avenue. Special thanks for Panelomo for letting her hitch a ride. :)

Miss Iggy, being the art connoisseur that she is, can't wait to see the 'other' Guggenheims. In fact, she's booked a trip to another one in Bilbao (pictured below). Watch out for her museum-hopping in Spain's Basque Region soon.