The Anit-Ad

Some of El Grupo decided to set out on the town for a Friday night Dinner. We were craving anything Italian or Mexican and happened upon a tiny pizzeria called Sal y Pimiento. It was super quaint and cute.  We were all starved and each of us got a personal size pizza. Along with the house vino de roja y vino de blanco. It hit the spot! I ordered the pizza americana, however it look like something I would never come across in America; pizza with ham and egg, breakfast pizza? It was delicious.

And the walls at the restaurant were decorated with what I would like to call the anti-ads. They were tiny pictures going for about 20-60 euros a piece! A mock on marketing....Take a look.

Play on Apple slogan. Upside down apple. Reads iCojones. Which means balls.

An activia yogurt top. Notice 48 Euros for just the 1st of the sequence. I'm not the best with Spanish slang but the first one says something along the lines of A yogurt that makes you shit. The second one is a rectal suppository that says Where Activia fails! haha.

Mock ad of Louis Vuitton.

There were SO many more that I wanted to take pictures of but the group was getting ready to sit down and I didn't want to be an obnoxious American in this local restaurante.

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Picos de Europa

First blog! My sister sent me on my travels with a notebook and the demand that I write about all my adventures. She also insisted that I send her constant email updates. Hopefully this blog will kill two birds with one stone. So here goes. I've been in Spain for about 3 weeks but I'll dive right in with the latest.

This morning we made the nearly 2 hour bus ride to Picos de Europa, "Peaks of Europe." It is a range of mountains about 20 km inland from the northern coast, forming part of the Cantabrian Mountains. The Picos span across three northern regions (Asturias, Cantabria, and Castilla y Leon).

We made our way through the  narrow and windy roads to the base of The Picos, in what was a very panic induced bus ride with a speedster Spaniard behind the wheel. On solid ground we stumbled out in awe at the scenery that lay before us. The group of us made it into the gondolas and survived the dangerously vertical climb to the top. We stood on top of the universe looking over the Spanish mountain ranges in one of the clearest and sunniest days.

After initial shock and awe- and coffee and bathroom breaks- los chicos began the 4 hour hike down the mountain. We encountered sheep, cows, horses, dogs, and not to mention the most picturesque scenery. We mostly had the happy trails to ourselves. Besides the two biker extremist that nearly took out Mary, Kristin, Whitney and Kim. If it hadn't been for my panic stricken yelp we would have lost some valuable members of our crew today. Things relaxed and about an hour and a half and a nice Heineken in, compliments of Mary, we found ourselves in more chaos. Towards the end of our trails we heard  a man shouting from a hill high. Then looked down to see two of our dear boys off the beaten trail in a valley below sneaking up to the cows and horses. The man kept screaming, "ES PELIGROSO!"(It's dangerous!). At first we believed that there must be a bull in the valley in close proximity to the boys. But after everyone was back on the trail it became apparent that it was actually hunting season and the boys had been wandering in shooting range. However I am happy to report that no one was mauled by bikers or shot by duck hunters! Overall success. S'all for now!