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The rain in spain stays mainly on the hills in Lanzarote

We are of course, allegedly, privileged to be experiencing wind and driving rain on holiday then stuck at home – but then again its quite disappointing to be on top of the best crag in Lanzarote soaked to the skin with a force ten gale driving the rain drops into your back like little cacti spines haha… it stopped being fun after about 20 minutes and looking at the black sky coming up the gorge over the hill we had to admit defeat and turn back to the car.by this time we were wet through to our pants – once down the ridge and more sheltered it wasn’t so cold but it wasn’t comfortable either.  

It was so wet I didn't bother taking any pictures!!!!

Of course as soon as we reached the car about a mile away the sun broke through the clouds and for a few moments it promised to be glorious – we were tempted passingly to retrace our steps and try again, until we looked up and across the hillside – grey almost black scudding clouds as far as the eye could see so we climbed in the car and headed for the coast where there would at least be a bar we could hide in for the next shower.!

Its been our last day on Lanzarote – and we were very late getting up as all we could hear was the rain on the skylight so we decided there was no hurry – we had a lazy breakfast at the nice pastelerie we had found in the village and the day started to look more inviting, the sun was up in the sky – surrounded by clouds but they were moving quick so we convinced ourselves any rain would be brief and pass over.

In truth we got well and truly soaked to the skin twice in the day and finally retreated home to laze about doing equations and reading holiday books -Guess who did what!!!
 
plant in our garden
We had at least had a good wander in the wilds – discovered some more amazing cacti – huge tree like structures we had watched kestrels circling the valley and got some fresh air! 
 
outside the apartment 

We are starting to get used to Spanish time keeping and soon enough it was late enough to go out and eat at the little restaurant down on the promenade.  We spotted this place the first day we were here while we were waiting for check in time to the apartment and we liked the look of it then.  By coincidence it is owned and run by our Air B&B hosts.  We treated ourselves to delicious home made pasta and stuff and even pushed the boat out having puddings.. a fitting almost end to a great holiday.  
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