Oviedo, Day Three

 Wednesday, January 14, 2026

Slow start this morning.  It's after noon before everyone has made an appearance. The plan is to have lunch around two at The Black Sheep. Ole is walking to the post office and Barbara is walking to the restaurant while Jenny drives the rest of us in to town.  We'll all meet at La Oveja Negra (The Black Sheep).

Socks is large and in charge

While Boots is beating the fountain into submission!

Jenny drops us off and goes to find parking and by the time she gets back Ole and Barbara have joined us. We have a reservation so there is no problem finding a table for us outside. Those of us who get cold more easily (or haven't already walked a million miles) sit closest to the heaters and it is lovely.  Our waiter and Jenny have quite a discussion and I think basically he brings us what he thinks we should have to have the best experience of his restaurant.  Food keeps coming out and it isn't until we're elbow deep in the bread, tuna salad, ham, beef, veggies, and wine that we learn that this is just the appetizers!

Tuna salad

Can't eat here without having the ham if you want the full experience.

The tomato bread gets an olive oil bath.

So expressive!

Some sort of cow

Veggies with anchovies and tuna

Peppers

                                                 Stu passes judgement on the second wine.

Then there's the steak! He had suggested that we have it cooked medium and when he learned that we were from Florida he said that we definitely wanted it medium.  When it arrives we understand that he was absolutely right - their medium is our medium rare, which is what we said we wanted!!  And it goes with the second wine for which we get new, larger glasses.  Oh, and new, softer napkins.

                                                There were two of these meat-laden platters!

                                                                   Someone had to do it!

Then there's the cheese course with tiny little bread sticks and quince sticks, and flan with berries and cream - and a sparkling white wine that I get to approve.  

And then there's coffee and a green, unlabeled herbal liqueur! At this point another employee takes a picture of us and it winds up on the restaurant's Instagram page!

Jenny has to go to work and Ole drives the rest of us to the coast for sunset. There's a pretty treacherous climb down to the point and I go about a third of the way before deciding this is literally not the hill I want to die on! Everyone else makes it all the way to the cross with the tiny nativity scene underneath it.  I manage to make it back up without incident and play with photos of the lighthouse while waiting the the kids to come back.

                                                                     Here's where we went.

Amanda and Stu made sure I was okay before they took off after Ole and Barbara.

This is what Barbara could see from the end of the walk.

While this was my view of that part of the coast!

It's great to have a second photographer contributing!

Here's Stu checking on me!  And you can see the cross to the right, by Barbara.  My little camera didn't do too bad a job at this distance!

Sure looks scary from where I was!

I'm so glad I didn't do this!!

Thanks, Barbara!

We only sorta got a sunset!

When we're all satisfied with our nature experience Ole drives us back home, listening to the first Murderbot story.  We drop Barbara off in town so she can climb the Stairs of Doom and she gets home not much later than we do!!

These five photos are from Barbara's walk.

That's the stadium down there.

Meanwhile Boots snuggles in my lap.

No one wants to go back in to town, so Jenny stops on her way home from work to get bread and we'll have bread and cheese and jams and whatever for dinner. There is a perfectly ripe brie and a not-yet-blue blue cheese and an aged goat cheese and some Spanish cheese. There are several jams and frsh from the bakery bread and olives and pickles. And vermouth or sherry according to your taste.  Simply grand!

It has to be an early night because we have to back for the train ride to Madrid in the morning.  But my night will start a little later than I anticipated because I wound up wearing nearly a whole cup of hot tea and I'll need some of those clothes for tomorrow.  Laundry time!

Ole will take all the luggage and visitors to the train station while Jenny takes the local train to the station. That will leave their car at the station where it will be convenient for when they come home late Saturday night.