This past weekend, our director, Jaime, took us on a weekend excursion. We left Saturday morning and took a bus to a small town called Aseigu de Cabrales where we learned A LOT about the process of making goat cheese (we even saw the caves they keep it in). After our little tour of the Ruta de Queso, we went to an Espicha (a style of eating in Spain) and learned about the Sidra they make in that town. The sidra came from the ceiling and I think it is the best sidra I have had here. We ate a lot of really good food including the goat cheese we had learned about. After we got back on the bus and drove for another hour or so to a small town called Potes where we spent the night. We had dinner in the hotel and just hung out after dinner.
Sunday morning after breakfast, we took a short bus ride to the Monastery of St. Toribio de Liebana. At this monastery, the biggest piece of the Holy Cross is located and we got to touch it! The piece is from the left side of the cross and it is bigger than the piece of the cross at St. Peter's in Rome. It was moved to this monastery when the Christians were fighting the moors in order to protect it. After that awesome adventure, we headed to a mountain range (we spent the whole weekend in Picos de Europa) in Cantabria (the Spanish state next to the Asturias). We took a funicular up the side of the mountain (I was so scared!) but the view from the top was absolutely incredible. We hiked around for a bit and then had lunch on the top. After we started our bus ride back to Oviedo. At one point, when we were on the road that separated the mountains on the left and the beach on the right, Shannon turned to me and said "Mountains on the left, beach on the right, where are we?" and I responded "Paradise?"
It was such a wonderful weekend and it was so great that the whole group got to go. I'm not ready to leave Spain- I wish I had more time. Time has flown, I can't believe I have been here for four and half months.
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