Yesterdays travel around the North part of the Island was thwart with challenges, loads of cars and thousands of cyclist all wish to die, it seems so it was not pleasant driving and we could not stop and take photos either and so today we thought we would repeat some, of not all, of the journey to try and get some good photos and enjoy the views. So following the usual breakfast we packed up and collected the car from the underground car park and headed North on the South side of the Island passing through the outskirts of Arrecife and up past Arrietta and finally arriving in Orzola which we did a better tour of. You can get a ferry to La Graciosa which is a small Island about 30 minutes away by boat with white sands and lovely clear water and apparently really worth a visit but unfortunately we did not have time fo this.
From here we took the road in the direction of Haria which was very quiet, almost deserted one might say and from there on the the historic capital of Lanzarote called Teguise which was also very quiet but the roads were most interesting with steep gradients where yesterdays cyclist were struggling and moving all over the place whereas there were only a few so we could stop when we wanted to take some photos of the particularly the stone walls made from volcanic rock which were built to protect plants and later on the journey the vines as there were a number of Bodegas you could visit which was not much use to Noel with his diet issues. From there we went on to Mozago also a quite place and toured around the small town looking for somewhere to get a cup of coffee but maybe because it was a Monday nothing was open although we did one full blown restaurant with a number of people there but I doubt that they would be happy just serving us coffee when they need the customers for the main restaurant.
By this time it was about 14.30 and so we slowly took the long way back to the Hotel to drop off the car but found the office not opening until 1600 so we parked again in the Hotel car park and then 90 minutes later returned the car and immediately afterwards visited the Irish bar for a pint. Next door to the pub was a shop selling all the usual tourist stuff but they had some nice leather sandals which Noel took a liking to and subsequently purchased as the current ones wont deal with his swollen left ankle which was result of his knee operation 18 months ago. We returned to the Hotel and checked out the swimming pool on the roof which is reserved for suite guests and it was quiet and so tomorrow morning after breakfast we shall check it out.
Having had an enjoyable salad last night in the room we decided to do the same again tonight and this time its smoked salmon and prawn salad and then we plan to watch a couple more episodes of the Netflix Drive to Survive again. So that's it for today
