Staying closer to the sea front at the Caybeach Meloneras – the Jet2 photos don’t flatter the Hotel, but it’s well laid out and more than acceptable. ‘mil ochento y dos’ is the only room with a JVC television and 7oclock is a bit of a bun fight for dinner but that’s just bad timing.
(MORE…) We enjoy the dunes walk…
On Monday we start with a 15.99km walk along the windy seashore to Playa del Ingles. Meloneras is modern and swanky where p-d-I is more, er, traditional? We have a €20ish salad and chips to share for a late lunch. We return to hear C3 has a cancer diagnosis. No guesses to coming weeks media coverage. Lucky we’re out of the country,.
(MORE…) It’s a small world Tuesday following the obligatory promenade run…
A start to the day with the promised warm weather training 4km run around Meloneras, and keeping in the spirit of running we arranged to meet ‘parkrun Aj & Kanny’ who know Wheelers Andrea & Min. Having found Ciao Ciao yesterday evening at the 80% empty shopping centre we return for our Caprese salad lunch with them. The mercadona 800m away sees us bump into our Finnish friend from day 1 at the alcohol aisle.
(MORE…) Wednesday is Fataga walk day…
We find wetterpanorama on the TV as a reminder of past things alpine then take a 20 min walk to the 09:30 #18 guagua to San Bartolome. It’s a 6km walk 600m descent to Fataga and a less than decent salad lunch. The bus ride is spectacular. The wind dies down for the afternoon and we see it brings the clouds down inland over the hills.
(MORE…) Playa de Mogan Thursday…
Again travelling by GuaGua, but not the late 32 direct, we catch the #1 service, completed in record time by a kamikaze driver taking no cyclists or hire car drivers prisoner. Route 32 is a circuit so returned via Playa del Ingles for coffee and tasty cake in a gilded cage. Nice to be able to give our parkrun friends a walking tour,
(MORE…) In bed by 10 after Flamenco Friday…
Time for another 5km run around the resort. In the evening the dancers did a non stop 45min slot and changed costumes for every dance. Full marks to the hotel for this one – really entertaining
(MORE…) Saturday at the Tony Gallardo nature reserve & the Six Nations…
the courting frogs and serenity of the reserve are just what we needed with a walk back to meloneras beach. Sadly the Scots couldn’t sneak past the French grenouilles with a last seconds grounding in the rugby.
(MORE…) You know that bit about it’s a small world, well it really is as we literally bump in to our Sri Lankan cycling buddies Peter & Angela in Las Palmas…
It’s a long bus journey as we have to pick up folk around Playa del Ingles, so although only 35 minutes or so up the road we add nearly an hour dropping people off and on, but it’s the only bus service that’s running more than a handful of trips on the Sunday so we couldn’t do the walks in Fataga we wanted. The capital of the island has a vibrant promenade & beach, so it is worth a trip, but it’s another long day and we need a holiday.
(MORE…) Monday’s final sun catching is a less windy paddle along the beach and back via CC Yumbo, Maspalomas Lago, Holiday World and Faro2 for lunch…
Having been exhausted but warm we return to miserable but 12 degrees rain drenched Bristol. Avoiding more puddles than there has any right to be we drive back in the dark to a welcome freezer food paneer and rice. Ah … simple food. Nothing much wrong with half board, but they were recycling the menu weekly, as well as the cabaret acts. Decent hotel and really friendly and helpful staff. The punters on the silver zone parking bus said never again – they are back to Lanzarote, but they were in Sonnenland which was miles out of the resort. Someone already wants to go back for winter sun
So the question remains do you book a month in an apartment in Telde, return to airbnb or stick with half board; maybe even try another Island – the girls on the Silver Zone bus came to change it up from 20 years going to Lanzarote – well they’re back off to what they know, but they were a way out in a hotel in Sonnenland. They didn’t look like they were interetsed in an easy access to cycling requirement …
