1995 Gran Canaria: In the Home Stretch

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1995

3 Months

NYC

A Jewel

Eivissa

Tree Abuse

ECO

Black Friday

Bocadillo

Danger!

Estofado

Sangria

Rave

Cannibis

Camino Viejo

Neutrinos

Weather

Roosters

JCS

The PM

Plongeé

Smila

Customs

O. J. Verdict

1995 Eivissa (Ibiza): Fish Monger

A Roar

MacWorld

Padinkos

Bye E, Hello GC

Gran Canaria

Where

A Tour

How

Food

Yumbo

Las Palmas

Playa

1995 Gran Canaria: Potpourri

Norteños

More Food

Irishmen

Heading Home

USA

With Dad

Back at Home

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1995 Gran Canaria: In the Home Stretch

I was almost back at the bus station. I crossed the wide promenade that parallels the water; a beautiful waterfront panorama greeted me.

Waterfront panorama

The view is east, toward "uptown" Las Palmas. I'm not sure how easy it is to discern in my low-resolution snapshots, but there are a dozen people wind-surfing in the breeze. I noticed the jetties didn't seem to be constructed of the same talus that I've seen in most ports. A closer look revealed that they weren't made up of crushed boulders, but rather cast concrete stars with four arms, much like a child's jacks.

Waterfront  blocks

I was almost back at the bus station. On a street corner I noticed large neon advertisments that would, in a few hours, be brightly lit. I always feel a little down when I see the relentless march of American products in foreign lands. A bus drove in front of me, and then I saw the bus station. My trip to Las Palmas was almost over. A block past the neon jungle was another park, within which was a beautiful little café.

Advert Cafe in park

The bus to Playa del Inglés was in its berth when I arrived; ten minutes later we were on our way. The last people I saw before I fell asleep was a group of ladies waiting (evidently) for another bus and a girl and boy, hand in hand, walking home.

Hispanica waiting   Lovers loving

As my eyes shut, I once again saw the many rows of houses made of "ticky tacky" that littered the hillsides around Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

ticky tacky

Zzzzzzzzz.

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