
18/02/2025
Thank you to some strong winds we needed to stay in La Gomera Marina so , even being really difficult, I managed to get the captain alway from Dora Mac enough time to get a bus ( Guagua ) and see just a small corner of the Gomera .
When Columbus left Palos / Huelva ( south of Spain ) to find a new route to India ( that’s how in those times people named : Indonesia , Japan , …) he first stopped in La Gomera . In those times was an island considered being the best for water and provisioning . After some weeks here , they left and everyone knows what happened ! . A new route to the indias opened ( only that it was a new continent right in the middle) ups ! .
Gomera is a very calm place where people comes to enjoy the forests and hikes . Less
Touristic but no less beautiful. Here is where Angela Merkel came for holidays and maybe that’s why we saw so many Germans . Who knows …. This is not a place for drinks and party . The only sound we listened during this short scape to the inside of the island were the birds . Local people here developed a language / whistle . Even is obligatory to study in the schools . Intrincate and old but very useful among the shepherds working isolated on the mountains in times with no phones . It was nice take our heads away from the crossing for a while . 🙂
Tomorrow we will be flying the asimetric on our way back to Las Palmas stopping first in Tenerife.