Before we came on this holiday we had decided that we wouldn’t rent a car this time but use the local buses instead. They’re cheap and reliable and it would save having to drive around.
But before we got our first bus today we discovered that we could rent an Opel Corsa automatic from around £20 per day all in, so we decided that we’d have one for just 3 days so that we coild go to one or two other places that would be harder to reach by bus.
So we decided that we would go into Puerto del Carmen today.
Firstly we caught the bus that does a regular circular route of Playa Blanca
which took us to the bus station and which runs every 30 minutes at a flat fare
of €1.40 each. Unfortunately they wouldn’t accept our bus passes! We then caught the bus to Puerto. The journey
lasted about 40 minutes and cost €2.70 each - a bargain!
We got off the bus near the San Antonio Hotel and set off walking along the
prom at Pocillos beach until we eventually got to the Scirocco bar at the
commercial centre at Matagorda and stopped off for a drink and a browse round
some very familiar shops.
We then walked back being careful not to get run down by the electric scooters
and bike riders moving at speed. We called in at the Hotel Las Costas
where we will be staying in February and then kept walking until we got to our
old favourite restaurant - the Antica Trattoria - where we enjoyed an ice cream
and a beer.
By this time we had done 14000 steps but we carried on regardless past another
old favourite - the Golden Corner - and eventually reached the Los Fariones Hotel
where we believed we could get the bus back. It was true and luckily the bus
arrived within a few minutes. We were pretty tired by now.
When we got back to the hotel we decided to have a dip in the pool which was
very refreshing, then had a cocktail each, got changed and had dinner.
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| Manrique car! |
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| A Surrey with a fringe on top! |
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| The 5 star Lava Beach Hotel |
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| Golden Corner |
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| Camels! |
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