Photographer Page

Slawek Kozdrasw

Grande Plage du Sillon beach, in Saint-Malo, with the spire of the city’s cathedral in the distance.

Café Bar Bilbao, which sits in one corner of the Old Town’s Plaza Nueva, prides itself on serving some of the best pintxos in the city.

Pintxos at Mercado de la Ribera, a riverside hall that’s the largest covered market in Europe. There’s a touristy element to it — local advice is to avoid eating in the style-over-substance bars within the market hall — but many of Bilbao’s leading chefs still stock up their restaurant larders right here.

Louise Bourgeois’ sculpture Maman, over 30ft high, sits outside the Guggenheim Musuem Bilbao.