My name is Marion Vermazen. I am a traveler, hiker, reader, Sun alumnus, computer geek, YouTuber, Spanish and French language student, knitter, weaver and genealogist.
Today was a day of relaxation. We went down to the beach and went wading. Because of the wind the red flag was up, so no swimming.
We saw lots of kite surfers.
Then we went up to the pool and went swimming.
We spent the rest of the afternoon resting and relaxing. Then we had another great dinner. But the problem with buffets is the deserts! how do you choose?
This morning after breakfast at our hotel we went out for a drive. We headed towards the southern tip of Fuerteventura. We stopped in the town of Morro Jable and walked along the coast path.
We stopped at several viewpoints along the coast. Eventually the road became dirt. All of Fuerteventura that we have seen has been extremely arid.
Eventually we drove up over the crest to the west side of the island. The house in the picture below is Winter House. It was built by a German engineer Adolf Winter in the mid 1900’s. You can’t go inside. Winter House is where we turned around and headed back to the hotel.
On the way back we stopped at a grocery store and then had a picnic in our room.
Meals at the Melia are served buffet style. Staying here has been perfect for getting over jet lag.
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Saturday 3 February 2024.
Duke and I are at the start of another adventure. Tonight we are sitting on the balcony of our room in our hotel overlooking the Atlantic. We are on the island of Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands. It was a long trip to get here but we made it!
We left Reno Wednesday and drove to Walnut Creek. Thursday Allison and the kids drove us to BART where we caught a train to San Francisco airport.
Our flight from San Francisco to Paris was on French Bee Airlines, an airline that is new to us. We were a bit late leaving the gate and then sat waiting while 10 or more planes landed before finally we took off. Apparently there was only one runway open because of maintenance work.
We arrived at Orly airport and walked across the street to our hotel. We were each pretty tired after the red eye flight so we went to bed at 7pm and were immediately asleep.
Since our plane to Fuerteventura was at 6:30 the next morning it didn’t really matter that we woke up about 3am. We walked back to the airport, had croissants and coffee, then caught our flight to the island of Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands.
We rented a car and drove to the other end of the island where we are staying at a beautiful Meliā resort. After naps we went out exploring and checked out the pools and the beach.
We started our trip home from Chile with a flight that left Santiago at 11:55 pm. So we had a whole day to continue exploring Santiago before we left.
We started the day at our nearby coffee shop, The people there were incredibly friendly. They remembered us and the coffee and croissants were some of the best of the trip.
After we checked out of our hotel at noon and stored our bags we took the hop on hop off bus tour of the city. We got to see the newer and more modern eastern part of Santiago.
We got off the bus at Plaza de La Constitución and had a late lunch at a cafe called Blue Jar.
When we got back to the hotel and reclaimed our bags they arranged a car to take us to the airport. At the airport we killed time until we could check in at around 8pm. We had sandwiches and beer and finally right at midnight we were on our way.
I can’t say I would recommend American Airlines given the quality of their food and service but after a ten hour flight, a 6 hour layover in Dallas, and an almost 4 hour flight to Reno we arrived home safe and sound. We are recovering from our red eye flight and getting over our jet lag.
It was a wonderful trip. I uploaded our YouTube video of Iguazu Falls just before we left Santiago. I’ll be editing YouTube videos for a while so please watch Boomers Without Borders for more videos.
Today the weather was perfect in Santiago. This morning we had coffee at the same coffee shop where we had coffee yesterday.
Then we walked to the Nobel prize winning Chilean poet, Pablo Marisa’s home, La Chascona.
We took the audio tour. I enjoyed the tour. It was an interesting place but it also gave us a perspective of Chile’s recent history.
Next we took the funicular to the statue of the Virgin Mary that overlooks Santiago. From there we rode the cable down and back we had great views of Santiago and the surrounding mountains.
From the bottom of the funicular we went looking for a jazz club we might eat at tonight. The club we were looking for appeared to be closed so we walked back to our hotel.
We had a great dinner at Casaluz Restaurant not far from where we ate last night on Avenida Italia.
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