Puerto de la Cruz

On Sunday I had a bit of a lazy day. I wandered around town and the botanical gardens for a few hours but also managed to sleep in. Much needed.

Puerto de la Cruz bay

The town

The gardens were ok but honestly I think there are better things to do in Puerto. They are by the road so not very peaceful and quite small. But if you have a few hours to killed, not bad and cheap.

Taking over

Big tree

After the gardens I tackled the stairs again. I hurt my knee earlier last week and it is now an interesting shade of blue and black. And stairs (and yesterday) did not help. It was killing me by the time I got to the bottom. But thankfully there was a ice-cream place at the bottom to cheer me up. Though it turned out a little bigger than I was expecting.

Enormous ice-cream

The beach is ok in Puerto. And popular with the surfers. Not sure I would try surfing there considering the number of rocks in the bay.

The beach

Because of said rocks, they also have a very nice looking pool area which was mostly deserted when I was there but then the wether was not really swimming/sunbathing weather. 

Pool

I walked/limped around for a bit, mainly trying to find the trim stop for Loro Parque for the next morning. It is pretty place and worth a visit.

And another beach

Feeling Christmassy now

I wimped out and got a taxi back to the apartments. And then begged the lovely lady at the pool bar for a bag of ice. I spent the set of the afternoon, reading on the balcony with the ice on my knee. I also managed to find real fresh milk! I have only been able to get long life which works in tea but is just not good to drink. I drank so much milk with weekend.  :)

Chilling out.