Our flight out wasn’t till 2 pm, so we had a lazy morning to enjoy the finca and surrounds. Mike & Dan choose to hike up the trail behind the finca while Suz and I headed back to the local square to check out the souvenir shop.
The cat was still guarding the church – this time hanging outside in the sun. There was a very large group of German cyclists on a tour. Suz is quite sure that some of the bikes were electric. I fully expect so as the hills are extreme and they didn’t look overly fit or young (even compared to me!). They were likely on a day tour from the German cruise ship in the nearby harbour.
Unfortunately, the souvenir shop turned out to be a religious artifacts shop, with nothing of particular interest. So we ventured behind the square and found a path up to the peak where we reached the cross that lights up the sky at night. Back down to the square we discovered that the museo for the church was open but it was by now too late for us to check it out. We missed our opportunity to check out the different outfits for the Lady of the Snows. Suz has a new retirement ambition – to take the job as the person who gets to change her outfits.
Once again our flight to Tenerife was very efficient and finding our place was a bit rough. But we managed to find it finally although parking was a challenge as it was Saturday and the street parking was at a premium with all the great restaurants in full swing. It was another great find in a cute little village with amazing waves and 4 restaurants in a 5 minute walk. Unfortunately it was Saturday, so doing our shopping was a challenge. Jorge sent us directions to the nearest open supermercado which was a bit of a disaster. I think I misentered it into google and after much searching, a tour of the surrounds and many more hills we finally found a place to pick up our necessities. Together with the BnB supplied wine and fruit basket of apples, pears, clementines, bananas and papaya and we were all set!
Back home we had dinner next door at Casa de mi Madre in our little village of Las Aguas. It was the only one open despite it being Sat evening – lunchtime is the big meal on the weekends here. It was spectacular. We sat on the open rooftop patio overlooking the ocean and could see our BnB balcony. We have learnt better how to order and scaled back on the volumes to ensure room for dessert! Our waiter brought us fresh fish to select from, and we rounded out with papas arrugadas, salad, calamari as well as cervezas and agua (we bounce between still – D&S choice – and sparkling – M&A choice. The fish was prepared with almonds and done on the grill – it was superb. For dessert Suz and I had the ferrero roche-like choc with ice cream and Dan & Mike had the cheese cake; all with coffee. All amazing. Our dinner came in at 73 Euro (or about $55 Cdn per couple). Yeah, I could do this for a winter getaway….
