I was about twelve years old. While they were building the Rontegi Bridge, their father explained to us, after eating, the benefits he was going to bring. I didn't know what it was or where it was, but something big had to be to get so much praise.

Our family is not from Bilbao, nor from Bizkaia, but it can be seen with what pride my father spoke to us of what he had done there. Surely that is why I will remember it.

The Rontegi bridge united the left and right margin of the Ibaizabal. Until then it was a great turn to go by road from one side to the other, so that we could go from Getxo to Barakaldo. Miles and a lot of time on complicated roads. Now we didn't look at it, but then there was a tremendous change.

My father didn't have a car, he didn't go to Bilbao, but he explained how important Rontegi's infrastructure was. The urgent thing for the Biscayan and Biscayan and, therefore, the good thing for everyone. His vision did not end at the door of his house, not even in Gipuzkoa. I never heard him talk about independence, the label would label him as a nationalist “warm”, but it seems to me that his view of Euskal Herria was more open than that of many supernationalists.

I realized it late, and today I feel like we're missing that spirit. We are said to live in a world without limits, we are all modern, but I would say that chopsticks predominate, and stronger and stronger. In Bilbao I do not know what they have done, in Donostia they have complained. Or the other way around. That one puts more money, that the other feels excluded, he does and I why not ... I would say that this is a deeply rooted attitude in society and in some politicians.

Modern yes, but we continue to pay tribute to our small world. An independent Basque Country would be too great for the Basques, soon each would begin to reclaim its own land. I would bet.

I pass through the Rontegi Bridge many times, and I think if it were for whom we could still spend an hour or more from Getxo to Barakaldo. If it were for some, we would have no bridge, no highway, no metro, no train. The little one had a lot of speed.