Our excursion is to a little town called Gijón. Cider, or sidra as they call it, appears to be very popular here, because there are a lot of Sidra Bars and they've even built a huge sculpture out of empty cider bottles!
Wilson has promised to build a sculpture out of empty Ant Gin bottles in the garden when we get home.
We had a brief stroll around the town, which is very pretty and has a tiny Roman ruin, then on to the Universidad Laboral de Gijón, where there is a church built by the Spanish dictator Franco. He started it in 1946 and never finished it, which seems a bit… imprudent. Perhaps, as Wilson suggested, he had a short attention span.
Then back into the coach and off to Sidra Menéndez, a family-run cider factory in the countryside. Wilson is looking forward to this!
It is still raining.
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