So, we are one week into our placements and after a busy time acclimatising to our new roles
we were invited to spend Sunday in the city of Oviedo. Oviedo, the capital city of Asturias, is a two-hour coach trip away from Leon.
It was a very hot but pleasant day and after a guided walking tour of the city we attended the annual cider (or sidre) festival which started at the crest of a steep street lined with numerous stalls showcasing 20 different kinds of cider and selling a variety of snacks. At this festival the cider is poured into your glass in a novel and extremely inefficient way where the gentleman serving your drink raises the cider bottle high above his head and pours the contents into a glass which is tilted at an angle and held in his lowered opposite hand all the while maintaining eye contact with you as he pours. Inevitably this results with more cider on the floor than in your glass. The cider has to be drunk swiftly - something about the oxygen content dissipating from the cider on contact and leaving an unpleasant taste behind. Of course, several glasses in and you can´t taste a great deal anyway. I managed to sample 11 of the 20 varieties of cider available before we negotiated our way down the street to a fantastic restaurant where we enjoyed easily the best meal of our trip so far.
After a late lunch we took a leisurely walk back to the bus station for the return journey home. All in all a great day out. We´re planning to go to Gijon next weekend...
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