We saw a flyer about a local restaurant that was celebrating its 3rd anniversary with a food festival over the weekend with the highlight being the cooking of a whole pig on a traditional open fire barbecue. What's more the entire "gastronomic weekend of pork tasting" was free - all you had to pay for was your drinks.
Sounds good we thought so early yesterday evening we set off on our bikes to find the restaurant which was about 6km away. The pork tasting was supposed to begin at 8.00 but we arrived about an hour early as we wanted to find the restaurant while it was still light. The pig was sizzling away nicely on the open fire and we settled down at a table outside with a drink. By 8.00 the effects of a couple of drinks and the smell of the pig cooking had made us really hungry. Must be ready soon we thought as the owner of the restaurant walked around the pig, prodding it, turning it and re-arranging the fires underneath.
9.00 came and still there was much deliberation about whether the pig was ready to eat or not. By 9.45 all the customers were getting so hungry there was a danger that some of them might hurl themselves on to the still-cooking pig and rip pieces off with their bare hands.
At 10.00 the carving began - hooray! It took a while for the platters of pork to make it round to all the tables but we eventually had our fill and at around 11.00 left to cycle home, full of the joys of free food and cheap alcohol.
I slept soundly but Julie unfortunately didn't. In case you are eating your lunch while you're reading this I will put it as delicately as possible - the speed with which the pork travelled through her digestive system would leave one to doubt whether her body had a chance to extract any nutritional benefit from it.
We're having a quiet day today, probably meat-free.
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