After breakfast, you will make your way down to the beach where you will meet your surfing instructor. Following a short safety briefing, you will don wetsuits and hit the waves. A couple of hours later, having caught a few waves - or at least stood up - you will head back to your hotel to dry off in preparation for an evening spent poteo-ir-de-pintxos, literally 'searching out morsels on toothpicks' - an extremely civilised post work ritual in San Sebastian. This is no pint and pork scratchings affair, with an expert local guide you will visit the best pintxoterias in town, from back street haunts to tiny bars with three stools and three hundred wines, searching out the best bar snacks on offer, always accompanied by lashings of Rioja or txakoli (the local, and slightly fizzy, white wine), poured into tumblers from a great height.

As you chop, whisk and stir under the watchful eye of your expert chef tutor, you will learn just what it is about Basque cooking that draws in the epicurious from across the globe. Having devoured the fruits of your labour, and with trousers feeling rather tighter than this morning, it will be time to drive back along the coast to Bilbao for your flight home, which will leave late afternoon and land in London in the early evening.