2003 Gran Canaria: All over the place

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Gran Canaria

 

this trip's overview

(about the Islands)

SFO to LHR

stranded!

LHR to LHR

spending Iberia's money

baggage arrives

along the beachfront

visiting el Medico

Isaac's first haircut

R & R

Faro Maspalomas

cockroaches!

San Fernando

All over...

Puerto de Rico & Puerto de Mogán

el penultimo

on to London

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2003 Gran Canaria: All over the place

Wednesday 22 January 2003

We make it over to Gisela and Rainer's triplex in San Fernando. This is the view from their roof deck at around sunset. This is looking over to Playa del Inglés. We can see the parachutes dissapear into the skyline.

And here's looking towards the Faro Maspalomas, with a bit of zoom magification. We don't get to spend much time chatting with our hosts because the kids are so full of exploration energy. Omi Marga chats away.

The kids get up and request a snack of cream cheese by fingertip.

Breakfast, the next day, is at Paddy Murphy's. A good Irish breakfast (although not as good as The Fiddler's Green, back home).

Paddy Murphy's

Back on the beach Isaac masters the climbing structure. Yeah, Isaac! We're proud of you, big man!

Lila celebrates by falling face-first into the sand. It doesn't seem to bother her, and no sand gets into her eyes.

She face-plants several times more and then falls asleep. One of the hotel guests bought the kids that inflatable pool float on our first day there. What a nice thing to do. (We left all of our beach and pool toys for the guests who are yet to visit.)

This is how things look as we return home each day. First we stroll by the Supermercado Cordillo, in the front of the building. We buy some bottled agua, some frutas y verduras, some zumo de frutas, and sometimes pan y queso. Then we head upstairs.

This is the front entrance to the Apartamentos Atlantis 1 (there never was a 2). I have a photograph of me, as a very young boy, at this location while they were laying the stone. I remember playing in the dirt that was here before that improvement project.

Following the stone walkway, we enter, passing the gasthaus menu.

Inside we see Antonio at the counter. The guest at right was the one who bought the float. I have no idea why this picture is so dark.

Isaac heads out the back of the lobby, eschewing the ice-cold pool for a visit to Gisela and Rainer (to check on the gummy bear stash).

Here's Isaac tweaking my buttons by standing so close to the pool. By this time he knows how cold the water is, and there's only an appreciation for the idea of swimming (which is why our visits to the sunny and warm Maspalomas beach have become so popular.)

But from time to time we venture into the pool, to see if a hot day has warmed the water any. It doesn't. This is as far as Isaac gets.

We spend the afternoon on the Maspalomas beach. Nothing seems to tire the kids out as much as frolicking it the sand, surf, and tidepools. Here, at the Ristorante Escallantes (To the Stairs, Zum Treppchen (in German)) Isaac falls asleep in my arms as we await the chipparones (grilled tiny squid) and local jacket potatoes.

Lila's not much more awake herself. At least this meal will be quiet.

Even Rose is pretty wiped out and dusted with sand. She likes the chipparones even more than I, if that's possible.

Several times I've mentioned how things were in the old days. When I first visited Gran Canaria there were packs of wild dogs, fisherman plying their trade in boats and with beach-based nets, and few tourist facilities. At the restaurant I happen to see this picture, of the brothers Jesus and Angel on one of those boats, showing off a particularly special catch. We chat with the brothers each day we visit Maspalomas, and it's nice to be able to chat with them about this, a memory we all share.

Our next stop, the resort towns of Puerto de Rico & Puerto de Mogán.

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