In the Pink at Teguise

If you find yourself in Lanzarote - and hopefully our blog might inspire you to go (Pedro is available for guiding) - be sure to visit the Teguise Sunday market. It is simply huge and, unlike most markets that we tend to go to - it actually sells things that we and our minders wanted to buy. We were simply spoiled for choice, and the prices were very reasonable. We spent a lot of money, but that was simply because we bought so much - wooly lambs skin slippers, earrings, scarves, lizard mugs, necklaces, hand made soaps, spices and more - not all for us though, we were present shopping as well.

There are too many stalls to visit them all without a break, so we stopped off in a lovely courtyard cafe for a refreshing cafe con leche grande.

Our only complaint was that it was a bit pink (the cafe not the coffee) - after all we are all boy bears. However, it was a lovely peaceful spot, even though just a few steps away from the bustling market. What's more, as you will see behind us, we had live music, from a talented Spanish guitarist. Pedro even recognised the songs he was playing and was able to put a suitable request in.

From the market we travelled north to do a walk which would take in a town, which the guide books said was rather charming - that of Haria. We shall report in the Friendly Planet Guide that the town was o.k. but not unmissable. As for our walk, this was quite exciting and not for the faint hearted or those who suffer from vertigo.

We did fail to recognise 'a breeze-block walled enclosure' which our walking guide told us to look out for, so there may have been an easier path, but the path we took was almost vertical and rather close to the edge of a very high cliff - plus it was very windy.  We therefore had rather more of an adventurous walk than we were expecting.

The descent, which you see in our next picture, was not quite so steep, but still steep enough for our female minder and her folks, who didn't look too much in their element as they teetered their way down.

We are very sure pawed and can bound down a steep hill just like mountain goats, so we gave the others a good head start and took in the terrific view that we got from being so high up.

We wanted to see as much of Lanzarote as we could in our week, so from Haria, we drove on to the view point at the northerly tip of the island, the Mirador del Rio. Sadly we can't show you much more than the car park, and this great piece of iron work which Pedro is climbing ...

... as it cost several euros to get in, which put us off, especially as it was quite late in the day and not good weather for lingering. We did walk back down the road for some good - and free - views of the island of Graciosa.  We did speak to someone later in the week who said that the entrance fee was worth it, so don't let our stinginess put you off, if you do visit, after reading this blog.

This really was a cracking day and finished off beautifully with good food and wine in the evening. The only downside was our male minder suffering from a nasty bug.

Lots of love

George, Yorkie and Pedro xxx