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We travelled in style, on the Brittany Line ferry Pont-Aven. Our base was the family-run Hotel-Restaurante Piedras at Piedras Blancas. High points of the trip included a visit to the mountain sanctuary of Covadonga and a tour of the Centro Niermeyer cultural complex at Aviles, whose innovative design was a gift from the 90-year-old architect Oscar Niermeyer to the province of Asturias. There were two official concerts – one at Pola de Siero and the second, shared with the male-voice fishermen’s choir Manin de Lastres, at Colunga – but these were supplemented by an impromptu recital in a square at Oviedo and another on the staircase of the hotel! The almost Alpine scenery of Asturias, the robust local cuisine and the friendliness of this proud and independent community added to the delights of the tour.

Lesley Chandler was our tireless organiser and Spanish-English interpreter. Pictures by kind permission of Peter Crumpler.