Canary Islands – Day 12 – Fuertaventura to La Palma

Another cool day here in the Canary Islands, but it’s a travel day – so all the better to wear your heaviest clothing! We had a double flight – one hop from Fuertaventura to Tenerife, then a second over to La Palma. Very impressive – we were just over 2 hours from arrival at FV airport to leaving the airport in LP!

However, finding the road into our BnB was another story. This is the steepest island in the world – and we fully believe that! The address for our accommodation was not unique, and we ended up climbing a seemingly endless maze of vertical roads before finally getting a better link from our hostess. In the end our place was not in such an inaccessible maze – although still tricky.

The effort was worth it. It is very different landscape here – lush and green. The AirBnB we are staying in is a finca (farmhouse) from 1898. Th animals lived down, the family up. But it has been very sympathetically modified with good electrics and plumbing. So much character in both the building and the contents. It would be a wonderful place to stay for a longer duration – especially if the weather was warmer. Michael thinks we should make a deal – he’ll work on improving the wifi reception in exchange for a discount long term stay. I can easily envision sitting poolside and enjoying the gardens. The fruit trees (not sure of the name!) have lychee like fruit but they are sweeter and orange coloured. We ate our share. Celia was very nice and extremely helpful – even when we needed to call her back to have the downstairs bathroom light repaired.

After settling in, we headed to the Parilla de las Nieves, the nearby restaurant around the church square, for a late lunch. I had grilled rabbit, M&D had goat; Dan’s with lots of garlic, Suz had calamari. We shared an avocado / tomato salad, manchego & ham and papas arugulas with mojo. All was quite good, but we were pushing their closing time for lunch so service was a bit off.

The plaza was very pretty with the church, Nuestra Senora de las Nieves (Our Lady of the Snows) providing a lovely backdrop. Inside the church were the carved wooden ceilings again as seems traditional here in the C.I.’s. It was also unique with red fabric wall hangings on the walls and over some of the windows. Not to mention the ‘house cat’; can’t say I’ve ever seen that before!

Then off to our mandatory HiperDino pit stop for the standards – this time including ice cream bars (that would be Michael!). So after the predictable card games and an non-conclusive discussion of what to do to tomorrow, that ended another day.

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