My foot was still painful in the morning, with no improvement in condition. Still, a "Go" decision was made and we proceeded to check out. We asked reception to call us a taxi to take us to Cascais airport and had to wait almost 30 minutes while lots of other taxis went past. Eventually, a stretched Mercedes 124 series limousine arrived, expecting to take us to Lisbon airport. To us, this was clearly a case of the concierge calling a buddy taxi in an effort to earn some extra bucks at our expense.
After navigating heavy rush hour traffic in Cascais, we arrived at Cascais airport somewhat late but still in time to meet our filed flightplan departure time of 10:00. Our on-time departure was made possible by friendly and efficient handling of both airport fee payment and refueling procedures.
The flight to Bordeaux was uneventful. After a standard instrument departure out of Cascais in fairly good weather we flew across Portugal and Spain on an almost direct routing to Bordeaux. The last half of the trip we were above a solid cloud cover with no more ground visibility. We performed an instrument approach into Bordeaux, breaking out of cloud at 2500 feet and landed in otherwise pleasant weather. We were greeted by a pleasant handling agent who took us from the aircraft into their facilities and from there to the Avis counter in the main terminal building.
The Bordeaux airport left a good impression and soon we were on our way to San Sebastian by rental car. The drive was pleasant, initially through flat terrain, later becoming hilly as we came closer to Spain. We arrived at our hotel at around 19:00 hours, pretty much as planned the day before. At least we were now closer to the required spanish dinner time. With my foot still causing me discomfort (dentist speak for pain), we set off to town by car to have dinner within close walking distance from our parking spot.
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