By Nellie Huang

Before visiting Asturias, I knew they were obsessed with ciders. But I didn’t know they were this obsessed: the Asturians alone consume over 79,500 litres of cider each year and in Asturias’s biggest city, Gijon.

I also knew that the Asturians had a peculiar (and rather fun) way of pouring cider from a great height to allow the cider to breathe. But the one thing that I’d last expected was that I would be taking on cider-pouring – which, of course, turned out to be a rather amusing sight for my fellow travel mates. Each time I stretched my right arm up to aim the... More...