Tunas at the Final Party

We want to thank everyone for making this year's trip to Spain such a wonderful experience. Hopefully, you are all back home safe and sound - feel free to send an email letting us know you arrived :) Here are some pics from our final chocolate con churros get together.

All together now - tunas included

Churros!

Cameron with the tunas

Zipping Through the Trees

By the lighthouse to the north of the city center is a ropes and zip-line course. Yesterday, the group spent the afternoon there zipping through the air.

Learning the ropes

Oliver in the trees

Dancing Sevillanas

In addition to studying Spanish, the group has been learning to dance Sevillanas - a type of flamenco - after school ends on Tuesdays and Thursdays. They are quite talented, as you can see in the video below.

Altamira, Santillana del Mar and Comillas

On Sunday, the group travelled some 20,000 years back in time. Not only did we analyze the cave paintings, but the student went hunting for deer and bison using paleolithic technology. Afterwards, we wandered the cozy streets of Santillana del Mar to admire the impressive sandstone palaces the nobles built for themselves throughout the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. We ended the day in Comillas, enjoying Gaudi, the seaside and churros con chocolate.

In Altamira

Hunting for lunch in Altamira

This could take a while

Finally, lunch is served

In Santillana

In Comillas

The Peaks of Europe and Potes

Today, the group visited the village of Potes, which is tucked into the Peaks of Europe. Potes became famous in the ninth and ten centuries for the illustrated religious texts its monks produced. Nearby is the monastery of Santo Toribio de Liebana where we stopped to see its large fragment of the True Cross. Santo Toribio is one of the most important Roman Catholic pilgrimage sites in the world.

Outside Santo Toribio

Having lunch in front of the 15th century guard tower in Potes

In Potes

At the top of Cantabria, the Peaks of Europe

Ice Cream and Potter

On Thursday we met for ice cream at the Regma stand in the Sardinero. Regma is a local institution and the lines wind their way down the boardwalk at all hours of the day.

Ice cream by the sea

More "helado"

Nick seems to like Spanish ice cream

Friday was the world opening of the final Harry Potter movie. The group took a trip to the cinema and watched Potter speak Spanish.

Off to see Harry Potter y Las Reliquias de la Muerte

The Rain Rain Went Away

Tuesday was wet, but the sun came out this afternoon and it seemed the entire city gathered in the Sardinero area to celebrate. The students had a fun beach volleyball match against a group of Italians and learned the game of "pala."

Dragging Nick to the sea

Volleyball

Playa del Sardinero 

Playing Pala