My most loved place in the island

[pagheca]

Yesterday I accidentally charged my bike 100%, so I had to take a little ride around the house in turbo mode. I went down to the sea to an almost deserted beach that I particularly love. The road is twisty, very steep and very narrow. At the bottom is a small beach, some "charco" (wave-filled pools of water where you can bathe safely) and a sweet little coastal village of just a few humble houses, one of them up in the volcanic cliff (see pic). It's a place I particularly love where it's hard to find anyone . Coming back in turbo mode was relaxing despite the incline. 52% battery consumed in just 18 km! Motor and brakes glowing. First uphill, second downhill...

A few photos in the following...

 

[Smaug]

Really pretty place, as long as you like volcanic rock, hehehe.
The beaches look great, and I like that little blue house, too.

 

[pagheca]

to be honest, black sand beaches are not as beautiful as white sand ones. But they have an advantage: people go there less....

 

[Chuy]

What island? I remember reading in another thread you resided on an island for work but I didn't catch which one. And Spanish is your primary language? I am not picky on sand color, they all look good to me.

 

[pagheca]

I live in La Palma*, a small island on the Canarian archipelago, that is part of "Macaronesia" (from greek: "good weather" - that is actually true!), a string of volcanic islands West of Africa, that includes the Azores, Madeira and Cape Verde. And my first language is Italian.

I'm not picky too for what concerns "sand color", though I am when it comes to... "beach overcrowding" .

However, I have to admit this kind of beaches are better:

I took both photos during a trip to northern Spain a few weeks ago. There I found one of the most beautiful and varied stretches of coastline I have ever visited in my life, although they lack the sense of remoteness, of "being thrown on a rock by the ocean", that I feel here...

* A lot of people confuse "the island of La Palma," with "Palma de Majorca", a Spanish Mediterranean island, and "Las Palmas", a town on the island of Gran Canaria, also part of the Canary Islands. Now, while I agree with the idea that imagination in toponymy was not one of the strong points of the Spanish conquerors, I urge people not to confuse the three...

 

[Chuy]

Es paradiso! Very pretty and scenic. The wife and I took our first post-retirement vacation to Italy last August. It was burning hot but we enjoyed it. We stayed three nights in Rome, then drove to Tuscany to stay three nights in a villa just south of Montefollonico. Lovely area.

 

[biknut]

Very enjoyable pictures, and commentary.

 

[pagheca]

Es paradiso! Very pretty and scenic. The wife and I took our first post-retirement vacation to Italy last August. It was burning hot but we enjoyed it. We stayed three nights in Rome, then drove to Tuscany to stay three nights in a villa just south of Montefollonico. Lovely area.

Yes, and I do not like high temperatures too. And I like to see the RAIN sometime. But Tuscany is extremely pretty. Everywhere. My parents spent all their postretirement in a tiny old village in Val D'Orcia, the prettiest of the pretty. Their home was built nobody knows when but before the 800 (without the apostrophe), as it was drawn in an old engraving of the period. The whole village was just Middle Age.

I mostly agree with this: https://mappingspain.com/comparing-...NwRmgpRLrI3hshAzpzDVJpZ3sPOxYc-2_t5HaR0bS7BEE Only one point: Italian bureaucracy is way worst than the Spanish one, although both are really bad.

And here we come back on topic: https://www.euronews.com/green/2024...rope-to-introduce-mandatory-bike-insurance-fo . Note that although I want nothing to do with that party, I agree that we need to ensure that whoever does damage can pay it back. But the insurance industry must be controlled and regulated, to avoid abuses and "cartels."

 

[Battery Powered]

What a beautiful place, we would love to retire somewhere like that.