Cheese and Sausages and Jam, oh my!

Tandil is known for a few things:

1) Modest but pretty sierras
2) Tasty sausages
3) Tasty cheeses
4) Tasty jams
5) Tasty dulce de leche
6) Giant rocks that balance improbably on top of tiny rocks, giving the impression that they might fall and crush you at any moment.

As you might imagine, I enjoyed all of these things, but most especially items 2-5. I brought home one sample of each specialty, and let me tell you that the picnic we had the day after our arrival was a splendid thing. Mama, the delicious fuet sausage reminded me of Spain-- yum yum yum!!!

Cathedral.

Crazy balancing rock.

Dimelza and Lauren with Bettina, our saintly organizer. That day, on top of that very mountain, we had a lunch of asado-- the full works. Starting with chorizo sausage and morcilla, blood sausage (which I tried, despite knowing what it's made of. Blood, obviously). Then various cuts of meat cooked to perfection and accompanied by delightfully roasted veggies. Pure, carnivorous heaven.

I couldn't quite decide if this faux-Andalusian building was pretty or tacky.

The cold-hearted Lauren fails to save me from certain death.