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!!!
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| 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!
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| 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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