Some Highlights of Asturias

So you apparently have to pour the cider from as high as you can....spilling a lot in the process. And you have to drink it all at once. And you have to drink out of the same glasses. And you have to have so much fun with the parishioners while listening to the bagpipes play (yeah that's right, northern Spain is really Celtic.

Just a day at the beach...

And hikes through God's wonders...

(part of) the group...bunch of Americans and Brits.

At the brother's monastery: a unique blend of early Cictercian simplicity with the addition of typical Spanish Baroque altar. Oh yeah, and like more than a thousand youth from seriously everywhere packed in there too. (about 3 thousand total from the Community of St John, this is only half of us)