Close to San Sebastian, getting to this great seafood restaurant is half the fun
It’s even worth turning your attention away from the middle of the room, where there’s a large void and a rope pulley, a system for raising and lowering the net basket filled with live lobsters and crabs that rests in the water below. Because every now and then a ship enters or leaves the port of Pasaia nearby, and to do so it has to navigate the narrow passage that separates Donibane from San Pedro. When that happens, diners at riverside Casa Camara can reach out the window and almost touch the hull of the huge vessel chugging past.
- ▪It’s even worth turning your attention away from the middle of the room, where there’s a large void and a rope pulley, a system for raising and lowering the net basket filled with live lobsters and crabs that rests in the water below.
- ▪Because every now and then a ship enters or leaves the port of Pasaia nearby, and to do so it has to navigate the narrow passage that separates Donibane from San Pedro.
- ▪When that happens, diners at riverside Casa Camara can reach out the window and almost touch the hull of the huge vessel chugging past.
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