To conclude my account of this amazing holiday here are the pictures of our other activities. We signed up for a 4 hour hike through "The Wild Northwest" of the island of La Gomera. It was brilliant.
Anahi Konrad was our excellent guide. The majority of the people on the walk were very fit Germans!
We enjoyed walking through the tiny communities hiding in the valleys.
Some of the paths ran through remote gorges.
Rosalind found the descents a bit challenging but true to form she did not complain.
The final reward was complementary refreshments at Vallehermoso. Anahi the guide told me that in all the times she had been guiding walks she had never seen the English and Germans mixing so well. She said they usually ignore each other. She was particularly impressed with the duets sung by me and a lovely German gentleman who I think was called Norman.
On our final day we went whale watching and we were really lucky as about a mile off shore we were surrounded by several pods of pilot whales. They circled around us for around half an hour. This does raise the question as to whether we had come to see them or they had come to see us?
Then we moved off and found the dolphins who did all the things that dolphins are meant to do. In fact they got so close to the boat you could almost touch them.
Then the boat anchored in a small bay opposite an abandoned tuna processing factory and we had a swim in the warm water and then a lovely lunch.
Tuna steaks were on the menue.
Then we headed back to Playa de Santiago and the hotel.
We were so blessed to have had such a brilliant trip thanks to www.excursions-tina.com
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