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La Gomera

Wednesday 29th December 2021

Coming into San Sebastian, the Capital

At breakfast, we sat next to David & Elizabeth, she (Swiss) not only remembering my talks in 2014 but my name. A perfectly blue sky for a change, which lasted all day. We went on an all-day tour, which coincided with our last one at first but we had more (& better ) chat from the native guide, explaining about the three levels of vegetation: the banana & pine level, the Heather Tree level & the Laurel level. The interesting fact that they had about enough water without the desalination plants elsewhere in the Canaries, owing to the rain & wet clouds that sit on top sometimes.

Teide on Tenerife seen over San Sebastian

Canary Pines with Aloes in the foreground

Valley up from San Sebastian

from Mirador Roques Agando

The Mirador de Igualero

Inside the Church

Back of the Church

From the Mirador de Igualero. Not my best panorama

Le Cercado

Le Cercado

Bar Restaurant Victoria - Le Cercado

Natural Volcanic terracingo

We stopped for coffees at El Cercado when we got to the top of the island, about the same height as Ben Nevis. Then, we went down to sea level through the Valle Gran Rey, the Great King being the last of the Guanches, who were wiped out by the Spanish invaders

Into the Valle Gran Rey

Terracing for vegetables

The Valle Gran Rey

St.Peter’s Herminatge

Behind the Hermitage

Facemasks compulsory in Spain

Back up the Val de Rey

The Prom at Val de Rey

Back up into the Laurel Jungle at the top, we stopped at a restaurant after a walk through the jungle. We had the fortune of being on a table with David, Elizabeth, Terry & Seamus. They gave us plenty of food, although the crayfish David & I had was a mistake. Avis had excellent veal. While waiting for pudding, I told the story of Teophanu introducing forks to Western Europe.

Where the pines give way to the Heather.

Laurel jungle

More laurel jungle

Then, the Guide Riccardo took us over the top to his valley & then, round to the port

Riccardo’s Valley

Parasitic plant

The road over the pass

Nearly back

Aloes

Canary Pine

Port 1 - A Coruņa

Port 2 - Cadiz

Xmas Day

Port 3 - Lanzarote

Port 4 - Gran Canaria

Port 5 - Tenerife

Port 7 - La Palma

Port 8 - Madeira


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