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You can lose everything, but nobody will take away what you saw and what you experienced...
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Jan 12, 2022 10:00 PM Gomera - so different!
From the ferry approaching San Sebastian Gomera looks like huge muffin with high. Rocky coast on both sides. San Seba is a little, charming town with a breakwater protecting marina and two ferry docks. I was walking to the nice coastal promenade looking for reliable info, but the tourist office is far away - near the church. Columbus was here on his voyage to discover America!
They surprisede on the office - I got for free the road map of the island, 25 kms wide and a map of the walking trails. But the best news was that they have public guagua network. I will catch the linea 1 bus to reach my accommodation on the other side of the island - 49 kms away! Paying only 5 euro!
Linea 1 timetable shows 5 departures per day. If you go straight from the first ferry to the guagua station you will catch the first guagua at 10.30. I didn't, so I had enough time to photograph the best know monument of San Seba - stoney Conde Tower...
Just before midday I boarded green bus and we started to climb the mountains. If you sit just over the driver with the map such a 1,5 hours journey is like cheap excursion across the island. You will pass canyons, gorges, rain forest and little villages. The views are gorgeus! Gomera is so different! After almost 2 hours I reached my hostel Casa Escuela in Valle Gran Rey on the black coast. Very interesting day!
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Jan 11, 2022 10:00 PM Guagua to the ferry
Wake-up in the darkness. At 7 am I was alreadu marching to the guagua stop "Casablanca". For the historic reason Canarinos call the bus "guagua". So from the south airport area guaguas no. 111 and 450 goes to Christianos - a quite big city in the southwestern corner of Tenerife. I paid 2,20 euro to the driver for the 20-minute ride. He left me at the guagua station - quite far from the port and ferry dock. I was walking about half an hour with all my stuff - good morning exercise! Ferries (for foreigners) are expensive on Canary Islands. Imagine that for one- hour sail on the junk ship to Gomera I paid online 32 euro with a senior discount! Locals pay only 7 euro, and this is the honest price...
Sun was rising when I was embarking - they scanned only the number of my passport. The view from the deck was great: the port and Christianos town were bathing in the strong morning sun. Soon we departed enjoying the view of Mt Teide and jumping dolphins. Gomera was hardly visible in the mist on the horizon.
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Jan 10, 2022 10:00 PM Climbing Montana Roja
I started my long walk just after sunrise - at 8.15. Blue sky, no clouds! Using GPS I walked mostly on empty but bumpy gravel roads, passing many cacti and euphorbias. There were nice views of Mt Teide -the highest peak of Spain. On the southern side I saw Montana Roja - Red Mountain raising up to some 200 m just on the coast of the navy blue ocean. I reached the parking at the bottom at 10.30 and then the hike to the top took me another half an hour. What a view! Beaches on both sides. Looking east - coastal town of Medano - the capital of kitesurfers. Looking west - wide beach and fishng town of Abrigos. And the airport if looking inland.
I returned to my pension tired but happy (I did some 18 kms in total)
Great, sunny day!
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Jan 09, 2022 10:00 PM Tenerife Sur
The name of this pension is a bit strange: WiFi Tenerife Sur. It is inexpensive: 18 euro per room with shared bath and kitchenette. It is far from the beach but close to the Tenerife South Airport - walking distance 2,5 kms. So who stays here? Budget travellers like me, people who do not like the crowd and those from late arriving flights or departing early. But I met here also veterans: long-staying elderly, retired guys from Fance and Norway paying reduced rates.
The pension is located on the slope -with the nice view of the airport and the coastline. I can see many cacti covering the slope. There are other houses around - some of them surrounded by nice flowers.
What a difference comparing the snowy Europe! Today it is cloudy and about 19 deg Celsius. I expect sunny day tomorrow. :)
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Jan 08, 2022 10:00 PM Running to the gate
To fly to the Canarias on a cheap I bought two tickets 15 euro each for low-cost Wizz Air flights: Gdansk to London Luton and London Luton to Tenerife South. Before the covid wizz check-in was simple: you did it online, printing at home your boarding pass and in the airport you went straight to the security control. NOW you can check-in online, but to get boarding pass you still must go to checking counter. The line was not too long... But when I went onward -to the security control a Nightmare began: some 300 people was waiting there in the zig-zaging line!! I was waiting there almost an hour and then running to the gate 1. Lucky me - I reached the gate just before closing. After 2 hours flight we landed in Luton. Brits since 2 days do not require test from transit passengers, but on arrival I was waiting another hour or so to get to the border control (in Luton there is no shortcut for transit passengers directly to departure hall) Brits do not check any vaccinations or location forms on arrival - everything was checked before the flight.
Second plane was only 25% full -what a comfort! I went to the long-leg emergency row...
After 4 hours in the air, at sunset we landed in the Tenerife South Airport. Warm -18 deg! They checked after immigration control if you have location form done in advance online.
It took me half an hour walk to get to the booked pension. I am happy, but I need a rest!
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Jan 07, 2022 10:00 PM First voyage in 2022!
I'm embarking on my first trip in 2022. I am flying to the Canary Islands, where daily temperatures still reach 20 degrees. I've been there before, but only on those big islands that are popular with tourists. And besides them, there are also small ones that I do not know, but which are waiting to be discovered. On one of them a volcano erupted recently. When I was preparing this voyage, it turned out that there are no direct connections between these small islands, which is why the itinerary shown on the map is so complicated. To jump island to island I will be forced to go around very often... Keep your fingers crossed, please! :)
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Dec 22, 2021 10:00 PM Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2022, dear friends all over the world! I wish you good health, success, a lot of personal happiness and, of course, many fascinating journeys to the most beautiful corners of our globe!
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Dec 17, 2021 10:00 PM Long-distance low-cost
Wizzair flight from Poland arrived with one-hour delay. What's happened later was a show of disorganization: waiting in front of the gate, waiting in the bus. waiting in front of the plane. Fortunately in this "bordello totale" nobody took care about my oversized luggage. The plane was cramp and full... We spent long 6 hours in the air, landing in Katowice airport at 4 am. I had all paperwork ready (vaccination pass plus 24 h PCR test recently introduced by Polish authorities) so half an hour later I we as already in the advance-bopked guesthouse near the terminal. ALDA - recommended!
Only 2,5 hours left to sleep, then city bus A3 took me to Katowice station. But where is the snow? Comfy express train meeds 5 hours to get to my Gda?sk - enough time to complete my travel notes... It was an iteresting and relaxing journey. I saw new landscapes and met interesting people. Now it is the time to think about the next one! :)
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Dec 16, 2021 10:00 PM Exotic Dubai after years
I have my flight home late in the evening. So I decided to book the tour, which terminates in the airport in the evening. In the morning I was still sunbathing on the deck 15 with the nice view of the Dubai skyline. Packing mu luggage didn' take me much time. Cruise line was so nice and organnized for all guests covid thests required now by all airlines.
At 1.30 pm I was ready to disembark.
Big bus took us to Jumeira quarter to see fajcy hotels and ine mosques. Then were driving to the oldest part of Dubai, to see old, mud- made houses with wind towers in the narrow streets. Dubai Creek with the souks (bazaars) was the highlite of the day. I liked like years ago noisy abra boats sailing with the people across the river. We sailed too - to see Gold Souq and other parts od the lively market. Picturesque sunset found me on the bank of the river - they were just calling from the minarets. Great moment! It was 7 pm when the driver drop me at the peripheral terminal 2 of Dubai airport. It is not very impressive, but it seems that only low cost airlines use it. I have 4 hours waiting for wizzair flight to the cold!
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Dec 15, 2021 10:00 PM Crawling World Expo in Dubai
In the night we were sailing to Dubai. I woke up early to be on the open deck at the sunrise, when we were entering the Dubai Harbour. I had a great view of Dubai skyline while we were approaching the new terminal.
OK - I never had opportunity to visit the world expo exhibition - what a chance I have today! I decided to maximize the period of the visit paying 12 plus 12 euro for the direct bus transfer from the ship to the EXPO Village.
30 min drive to the desert and... from the distance it is not impressive, but oce you get in (seniors have free entrance) you can be fascinated!
It is separated, elegant town with shady streets and pavilions of many countries presenting their culture, resourcers and landscapes. Often they offer also typical food, but you have to pay for it. Great architecture of different styles and really a lot to see. After two hours of walking I am a bit tired, but I will take the rest, eat my sandwiches and start again! :)
I returned to the ship after dark, there were nice dron - povered light spectacle in front of our ship.
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