A Lady trip, Escaping the recession in style.
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Sun 25 Oct 2009 20:42
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THURSDAY 22nd October 2009
We spent most of the day on the boat, you know,
cleaning, tidying, moving things around trying to make space out of
nothing.
Thinking forward, we must have plenty of available
space for enough provisions to last at least 12/14 days at sea, and you
cannot store
fresh food that will last that long.
Our biggest worry about going to las palmas in "
Gran Canary " is that rats and cockroaches are everywhere,
The Boss is worried shitless before we ever get to
the feckin place, GOD help us, Cockies on the boat.......Ohhhhhhhhhh
no
WE WILL KEEP EVERYTHING LOCKED, so nothing gets on
board, not even broken wind.
Later we visited the " Gran Melia Volcan "
hotel , which is very close to the boat, A 5* hotel with beautifull indoor
planting, more akin to
a tropical garden. Later on we walked along the
coast path to the " Gran Castille " hotel, also a 5* hotel, but the old style
and a bit tired in
comparrison to the " Gran Melia
".....
That night we had dinner in the " El Mirrador
" restaurant in the port of Rubican, A great setting looking west over the
bay.
As we finished , we got talking to an Irish couple
sitting close to us, Tom and Emer COGHLAN, The spelling
here is very important,
because Aileen is a COGHLAN, ( they have the
nearest thing to blue blood, so were told. ) Anyway we had a real laugh with
them
and even came back to the beautifull " A Lady " for
more drink and extra laughs, We looked over photo's and discovered that Tom had
been in class
with SIMON COVENEY. small world. He works in City
Bank in Dublin.
Late night,
ZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
FRIDAY 23 October
Up early, S.H. went off and hired a Volvo " S 20 "
automatic, ( got it at half price ) By mid morning we were on our way to
GOLF at the old course,
This place was just north of Arricife, the capitol.
This time the golf ETTIQUETTE was a major problem, ( well it always is anyway )
a problem for
Stephen, ( went to the wrong school and doesent
have blue blood ) was driving the buggy close to the
fairway, Against their rules,
but, and there is always a but , everyone else was
driving on the fairways, but that did not matter, S.H was out of order, but the
best of all was
S.H was totally out of order,again referred to as
ETTIQUETTE over the way he marked the card,............. WOMEN ARE VERY CLEVER.
Stephen ( being ahead on the first nine
) LOST the match because he was out
ettiquetted..
Later we visited Costa Teguise and afterwards
went to the lovely Village of TEGUISE, The original capitol of
LANZAROTE..
We stopped off at the Restaurant " AMURA " for
dinner on our way back, where we met ADRIAN and MARY POWER, from
cork,
More drink, and he introduced us to Mr Calero , Who
built " Porto Colero " and where Adrian and Mary have a house.
Another Late night.
S.H. will never last the pace of all this. Women
thrive on it all, ( God bless them )
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