What goes better with cider than more cider?!

Hold onto your hats and fasten your seatbelts* as this is a bumper edition blog as I think I'm kind of leading a bit of a bumper edition life.

So after an evening of watching figure skating and badly dubbed English films on TV I slept like a baby on Wednesday night and the majority of Thursday so my plan to go and register at uni was somewhat flawed when I woke just before the office closed at 2 because they're Spanish**.

A rather large barrel of cider

Thursday evening we went to Tierra Astur which is a Cider brewery, ciders pretty famous in Asturias, so we hopped on the free bus there for all the food you could eat and all the cider you could drink for 17 euros which was, let me tell you, wonderful. We then went out to B12 which to Hullians is a bit like Pozition, post-first year...but they give away free cocktails like they're water so you know, can't complain. 

Tierra Astur

Needless to say the next morning I didn't feel quite so wonderful as the night before, but I dragged my hungover self to a meeting at uni which mainly consisted of informing us of what to do upon arrival, okay so the whole hour and a half was basically 'you need to register at the International office' and a video of people having stereotypical Spanish fun. The irony being, the meeting ran on so long that by the time it had finished the International Office had closed and I still couldn't register. However I did walk up to the International office, courtesy of guidance from Aisling and saw the centre of town in all it's fountain and jetwashed pavement wonder. At this point I feel I should reveal the fact that Oviedo is the cleanest city in Europe according to some 'clean city award giving board'. This is because despite the fact it rains around 94% of the time, they still hose the streets every morning at about 3am. OH SPAIN.

Yesterday evening we went for a few farewell drinks on Ruta de los vinos*** before going to socially unacceptably wave at the bus station to Marcel who headed off back to Germany in the early hours of this morning. 

Today we ventured to el cine to see Frozen. It was wonderful and I managed to follow it in Spanish, the woman sat in front of us doing Audio Description to her child really helped...****

And that's the wild few days I've had, lot's of alcohol, a fair bit of Spanish and very little Uni. Wonderful.

*Once again, if you're reading this in the car, I commend you, however safety first and not while driving...
**standard excuse for most things including weird opening times.
***Yup, wine street.
****NB: sarcasm

Tierra Astur