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Bus schedules in the Basque region

I am looking up bus schedules to connect places like Bilbao, Pamplona, San Jean Pied du Por, San Jean du Luz on: www.alsa.es monbus.es there is no English translation.
The same is true for euskotren.es
I tried .com for these websites without success.
Please advise.
Thanks
Pete Seattle

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In the top right corner of the ALSA web page there is the word "Español", hover over it with your mouse and the drop down menu of various languages should pop up.

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Correct, Euskotren is not in English but the PDF versions of the schedules at http://www.euskotren.eus/es/viaja/horarios/tren are pretty straightforward. Be aware of alternate town names or spellings, such as: Pamplona/Iruña (different from Irun), San Sebastian/Donostia, Hendaye/Hendaia.

Rick's guidebook lists some destination-specific bus web sites in the Connections section of each chapter. For crossing the border all the way from Bilbao, if you need to do that, ALSA and FlixBus may not run every day; I saw some services limited to weekends. Depending on your destination, PesaBus may have more service; they have one direct, daily 7:00 a.m. bus from Bilbao making multiple stops around Biarritz (including the airport) and Bayonne before returning.

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Pedro, que tengas un buen viaje, el País Vasco te va a encantar :)

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Enric, Eskerrik asko!

Carlos, Amare' a los vascos.

Laura, I have been using R Steves' Connections sections. Your comments were helpful. Since it is so early I cannot plan for next June's bus trips. Thanks

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You are right, many of the local bus companies for that region have websites that are only in Castilian and Basque. You can use Google Translate; it's built into the Chrome browser, or you can find it at https://translate.google.com/.

I found a fair number of English speakers in the region, but many of the restaurants do not have English menus, so (assuming you cannot read Basque) be prepared to deal with Castilian menu terms.