We made our way back to 📍Playa Blanca. Our first experience with the bus system on Lanzarote. We learned quickly that the schedule posted is a suggestion, no bus stop will be announced, and the driver will get out of the bus for a sneaky pee before continuing on his way. The last one really got us as the stop we wanted was 1km from the stop where everyone, including the driver, got off. As we crossed the street we saw our bus pull out and continue on its merry way.
We planned our day accordingly so the extra kilometre walk didn’t impact our schedule. We made our crossing from the southern tip of Lanzarote to the northern tip of 📍Feurteventura. The 20 minutes ferry ride was done on a large catamaran and on a calm ocean. It made the ride most comfortable with the ship barely swaying. The passenger cabin was deserted giving us our pick of seats. There was as much staff as passengers on the deck. The car compartment, on the other hand, seemed full so we can confirm there’s plenty of traffic between both Islands.
We had to cross the town 📍Corralejo to get from its port to our lodging for the night. That’s how we learned we were in a beach town focused on tourists. While I can’t blame people for finding the long and abundant fine sand beaches appealing, the town is clearly made to extract every penny out of its visitors. Every place you’ll meet along the beach or on the Main Street is either a restaurant with somebody trying to get you to come in and drink there, or a store with beach related wares.
Having rebuffed the assault of every “well intentioned” sales person on the main, we checked-in to our hotel, beelined to the grocery store for sparkling water and body wash (somehow we managed to find a hotel where body wash is not included) and made our way to the pool, not wanting to try and wrangle a pair of chairs from some random person on the beach.
Not knowing what we were getting into when we made the decision to stay one night in 📍Corralejo we still were wise enough to find a restaurant a little off the Main Street that served paella with crispy rice and the proper equipment 📍La arroceria. It made for a great meal until it came time to pay and we learned we had found our first cash only restaurant! We had to check we didn’t walk through a time vortex and ended up in the 90s by error. Either the ATM around the corner was on the right side of the time vortex or the restaurant decided to stay very retro; either way, we managed to get cash to pay our diner and were allowed to leave without making the dishes.
Places
La arroceria · Detrás del hiperdino, C. Pejín, 10, 35660 Corralejo, Las Palmas, Spain
★★★★☆ · Mediterranean restaurant
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