Exploring Playa Blanca

A lazy day in and around Playa Blanca. Up moderately late - 9ish, leisurely breakfast then a walk to the beach and along the front to find the local Ale Hop.
Our part of Playa Blanca is really quiet so it was quite a surprise to come onto a busy walkway and beach area. To be fair though it isn’t that busy compared to say Tenerife and it is all low rise white buildings so it looks rather more pleasant. Sadly the beach is closed for swimming due to fecal contamination ! 💩 so swimming will be elsewhere. We mooched along the front poking our heads into various shops and generally ambling. Eventually we turned off the walkwsy and up to Alehop. Nothing much new there - still had my little rucksack and other stuff but they did have a phone pouch so Sam bought one of those for swimming. Then to hyperdino where we found a little bottle of baileys and sundry other stuff. Then back on to the path along the shore where we noticed a woman hanging over the wall taking photos.
Turned out there were a load of crabs scuttling on the rocks, fabulous red ones that had slightly iridescent backs. I took so many photos.
After that we wandered to an icecream place and settled to people watch but before we had barely settled in to our seats two noisy blokes arrived on the walkway and started doing gymnastics and revving up the crowd - so we left. We walked on and found a little quiet courtyard at the princess yaiza that had a rather ‘nice’ clothes shop and a little gelateria so we sat there eating ice cream, listening to the birds and marvelling at how quiet it was compared to the gym bunny walkway. Eventually we felt like it was time to move on.
We continued ambling along the walkway and ended up at more ( extremely unbusy) shops down near the marina. But even for us there was a limit to the schmying around so back to the hotel to cool down and relax for a while. We scooted to the private pool and free snack area and had crisps and water - we could have had beer or cocktails too up till 5pm but we were planning on driving to Playa Flamingo to swim.
Suitably re- attired and fortified we did the 5 min drive over and then had a little fun parking but eventually out and to the beach.

A bit rocky and it felt freezing but once in it was great. Its very enclosed so very calm. We stayed in the water until we were thoroughly chilled then ambled back to the car and drove home. Dinner was fine - pork in beer sauce among other things. And that was about it dor thedayRead more