We know that late summer and post-holiday depression are tough, but these tips will help you get through it in a better mood.
There are no more sunbeds on the beach of San Lorenzo, the tourists have left with the last rays of the sun and the cold is here to stay. We Gijonese and Gijonese have already forgotten the beach, except for the regulars of the tostaderu who live there all year round, as can be seen in the sixth principle of Gijonomia. Time to change the towel for the coat and the mojitos for the cañas or culinos de sidra in the bars of Gijón. We know late summer and post-holiday depression are tough, but these tips will help you get through it in a better mood.
1. Make the wardrobe change
Autumn has come strongly in Asturias and thermometers are already noticing it. Here the temperatures have already dropped and the rains have already dropped, so it’s time to put away bikinis and sarongs, which are already asking for sweaters. It’s lazy, yes, but one plan for this weekend now that the holidays are over is to change your wardrobe, unless yours is as big as Kylie Jenner’s, then you’re in luck. If your clothes take up a lot of space, we recommend that you buy a vacuum cleaner container or make your own with a garbage bag and vacuum cleaner hose.
2. Recover old clothes
If you are from the 60s and 70s generation, search through the clothes of when you were young and find some garments, because fashion always comes back. Same if you are young, you can search the wardrobe of your parents, grandparents, uncles and uncles and get yourself clothes that are now trendy and unique, because no one will have one like yours. This season leather jackets, suits from the 90s and 2000s, shirts and men’s suits are back. The nostalgic will return to the fashion of their youth and today’s young people will make their parents happy by seeing them dressed at their age. If you don’t have Diogenes syndrome and you are not one of those people who keeps everything for when it is worn again, in Gijón you have vintage clothing shops where you can buy these clothes.
3. Put the quilt on
If you are cold and one of those who sleeps with the duvet until August, you can skip this step. If, on the other hand, you’ve slept all summer with the sheet on to prevent monsters from rubbing you at night, it’s time to retrieve the duvet from the closet. And, is there a better feeling than lying in bed after a long day and curling up in a well-padded and comfy duvet?
4. Beware of heating
Cold and autumn require warmth in the house and it’s time to turn on the heat, but be careful, don’t set it higher than 21-22ºC. Experts recommend maintaining this average temperature and not letting the house cool below 19ºC. If you have a temperature controller or can program the heating, you can keep the house with that heat and, when you go out, keep it from falling below 18-19 degrees, so when you return you don’t have to turn on the heating again and take less to get a comfortable temperature. Continuous switching on and off is what you spend the most and there is no oven for sandwiches with current prices.
5. Swap the gazpacho for the soup
Gazpacho is one of the typical foods of summer and heat and, even if you don’t eat it in Gijón, surely if you go on vacation, more than one falls. It’s time to say goodbye until next year and get started with noodle soups, which help fight the cold. Who doesn’t like to eat hot soup with flannel pajamas or, failing that, a tasty blanket? Mafalda did not know the good things in life.
There are many types of broth, but here we leave you a recipe for homemade chicken broth soup. You will only need a chicken carcass (or half a chicken if you want to add the pieces of meat to the soup), carrot, leek, onion, salt and noodles or stars, letters … whatever you like best. Boil the vegetables and add the chicken and water to cover everything, season with salt and cook for an hour in a traditional pot or ten minutes in a pressure cooker. Then you taste it, fix the salt, drain it and you already have your soup ready. Try making it yourself and don’t buy broth brick at the supermarket, which we know is tempting.
6. Prepare the chestnuts
The arrival of autumn means that Magüestu is around the corner. Soon the streets, houses and schools will start to smell of chestnuts and sweet cider and you have to get ready. The supermarket is close at hand for everyone, we advise you to go and collect chestnuts in one of the places in our natural paradise. The chestnut season begins in October, with the fall of the leaves from the trees, and lasts until winter. Later, you can prepare them at home by roasting them in the oven and accompanying them with a culín of sweet cider. An Asturian delicacy.
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