This past weekend Cassie and I went to Asturias, also known as Cider country! It's located in northwestern Spain making its climate very different from Madrid's. There was green (grass and trees) everywhere; I hadn't realized how much I really missed being surrounded by green. The Picos de Europa are also located there so it was nice to be in the mountains for a bit. We did do some hiking one day which was nice, and we also got to relax on the beach another day! We tried some cider cheese from a market as well as drinking lots of cider from the bottle. Cider in Asturias is poured from extremely high up, and the glass is only filled a little so that you down the recently poured cider in one gulp. The cider tastes much better freshly poured :) We visited three towns in Asturias- Oviedo, Aviles, and Gijon. Our CS host in Oviedo is the tallest Spanish person I've ever seen; he's literally almost 7feet tall which made hearing him a bit difficult but he was really nice. Our CS host in Gijon was actually from South Carolina and made us corndogs for dinner! Similar to our CS host in Mallorca he also had lots of space so there were more couchsurfers there which was awesome!
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