Following the usual breakfast we packed our stuff, cameras, water bottles and maps and waited in the reception for the car to be delivered to the hotel as promised. By 11.15 no car had arrived and the phone number provided was not being answered, so what to do and then a guy arrived and saw me clutching the rentals docs and hurried over and said he had been waiting outside for us, but actually in the car rental place immediately across from our Hotel but with a different company name. Anyway it did not take long and we had the car and decided to Head to the South part of the Island and spend a few hours touring . The car was Ok but one where you cannot adjust the angle of the back rest and so after a few hours along came the back ache.
We headed down south to Playa Blanca which is pretty much at the bottom of the island and drove around the town a little bit then headed North in the direct of the Volcan Mountains or Parc Nacional al Timanfaya where the Volcanic area is based and it was quite busy en route with so many cyclist , most of them careless in their riding habit whilst a few people had the bikes where you lay on your back with the pedals in front of , see photo, and they are so low to the ground and with black or dark cycle gear virtually impossible to see. Why these cyclist insist on wearing dark clothes when the background is black volcanic rock beats me unless they really want to die?
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When we go to the national park it was quite busy with a queue and of course its not an easy walk and what with Noels knees etc we decided not to attempt but just carry on. We then arrived at an area called Club Le Santa which is a very large holiday complex which looked interesting but to big for our liking. From there we cam back of the mountains? in the direction of Arrecife and made a slight error with left and right turns and so ended up in the Airport complex, not really a problem but made us a little late back.
We arrived back in the Hotel around 1500 hrs and had a rest as tonight we are going to watch the Puerto Del Carmen Carnival which is due to start in Spanish time around 1700 at the other end of town and work its way along the sea front to close to our Hotel. But before leaving for the carnival we headed over the the Irish bar for some early food and beer, also watched some of the England Vs Wales Rugby, and then walked for about a couple of kilometres down the main road and then waited for the Carnival to start. Gosh it was much bigger and better than we excepted and we really enjoyed and Noel took at least 200 photos and loads of video which will need sorting. By 9pm it was pretty much finished but there were several hundred people involved with lovely costumes and event the audience was also dressed up to celebrate.
We fancied a quick drink on the way back to the Hotel and pooped in to the Irish bar for a Jack Daniels on ice. We then watched another couple of episodes of Drive to Survive on Netflix and then to bed, A nice and enjoyable yet tiring day.
