so i spent this saturday making cider with my landlady's (Nathalie) family. Nathalie is french but has lived in Vigo for 30 years. It's a great situation for me because I get to live on my own, but have her support and company. Living and talking with her, is a babble of us conversing in spanish, english, and french. Her family is incredibly nice. They remind me of my own, with their gardens and fresh home-grown food.

making cider today, was a nice way to spend a saturday, since i am "ahem" still lacking in the friends department. the apples we actually got off someone else's property. gardens are really common here. the landscape is a pathwork of rockwalls filled with fruit trees, and grape vines, tons and tons of grape vines.

it was fun. seriously, who owns a cider press? even better, they make the fresh apple juice, and then some of it they ferment using a champagne process to make sparkling cider. amazing. in total we made 60 liters.

and on a side note, i'd like to say, i am addicted to mussels. i love them. every style, with garlic parsely and butter, wine sauce, cold with vinagrette peppers and onions. delicious. well that's all for now, tomorrow hiking on the same beach as pictured, hopefully to the 4 lighthouses.