Yesterday evening, we waited for Amit to join us. He took a bus from the airport and was told to wait in one stop for another bus that never came, (or possibly came as he was devouring something in the nearby café'. Lucky that place had wifi and we got the distress call and sent him a cab.
We all went to dinner at a local bodega which is called the bodega. The chickpeas soup had meat with lots of fat, I just dug out some chick peas and left the fat alone. I tried some local dish, the name escapes me now, it's dough and some meet and beans and all mashed together. it has the texture of refried beans, it was so so. The fish was very good, cherne fish and good potatoes. The bread was good as well. Amit had a fried vegetable plate as he eats nothing that casts a shadow and Moti took some salad with lots of avocado and some local wine.
After this very nice local meal, we headed to a local pizza place\ pub and watched the 2nd half of Barcelona v.s Atletico and watched the surprise 2:0 Atletico much to the delight of the locals.
By 10, I was back at the room, with plans for breakfast at 8. am. Since I did not sleep the night before and struggled to keep myself awake all evening, I crashed…
8:30 am, we were awoken by knocks at the door. Moti says he knocked before, and I recall nothing. Amit said birds were chirping just outside the window ad dawn. I recall nothing.
We had a simple but quality breakfast of eggs, good bread, nice cheeses, fresh squeezed orange juice and pound cake. 30 minutes after we began our walks. We left the hotel and soon left the town after a minor mistake detour and went down a ravine, up the ravine, and down the sloping trails. There are lots of cacti types and flowers here and there, I took photos of many of them. We passed through a 2nd ravine and seeing the local agricultural life , farming by terrace. The day is amazing, blue skies, Blue Ocean, the mountain behind and various volcanic hills all around. The ground is mainly basalt and all the fauna includes a few lizards, birds and 3 hikers. We didn't see any other hiker all day. Agter an hour and a half we stopped in the mirrador restaurant- for views all over the hills and we could see three other canary islands in the distance. After a healthy sandwich of goat cheese and ping goat meat strips, we continues down for another hour or so to the village of aleda blanca, recharged our water supplied, disposed of nuts, fruit and almonds into our mouths and began the climb back up. This part was not super hard, but still arduous, we stopped occasionally for water or air under the guise of taking more photos. As we entered the village, the roads became steeper, the very last one was san Francisco appropriate street and after around 4 walking hours and 6 over all we reached the hotel.
Now I am back on the roof after a reviving shower and a minor feet treatment. The hot tub is cold… so am I am sitting in my robe in the shade. It was enough sun for one day.
We will have dinner in an hour and then catch a show, more on that tomorrow, c
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