¿Is free, is good, no?

An integral part of the student life is the enjoyment of free forms of entertainment. And an integral part of the enjoyment is the having of good friends and/or good foods with which to enjoy it. Okay, so my english is steadily going down the shitter, but no importa!!

Last Friday was Deidre (aka Dorothy) from Kansas's last day in Santander. Emja chucked her a big ol' shazoo at her place, including home-made pinchos (tapas). [Leanne, these included bacon, camembert and honey, and stuffed capsicums with brie, mmmm]. Here's Deidre with her very first (and last) home made tortilla española.

Not a bad view from Em's flat huh?After din-dins we headed to the local train station for a free concert of traditional Latin dance which included Peruvians in flannies with mortace boards on their heads and a very very flabby but extremely enthusiastic salsa instructor man. I got bumped and grounded all over the place.

Following the gorgement that was Friday night, we decided to move some of that flab by taking some bikes up to the lighthouse on the headland. The city hires these bikes out free as a tourism caper that really only gets utilised by the povvo student types, but it's an awesome thing nonetheless. Some people take them every Saturday to do their shopping at the hypermarket just out of town.

After winning chicken with the local drivers round some interesting coastal blind corners, we pushed those gearless mothers up the last hill to the lighthouse.

On the cliff is a monument to all the prisoners of war that both sides forced to jump off the cliff to their deaths during the Spanish Civil War. Mmmm, peaceful Spain...