{"id":3384,"date":"2024-02-18T22:31:36","date_gmt":"2024-02-18T22:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/?page_id=3384"},"modified":"2025-02-18T21:50:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T21:50:14","slug":"canary-islands","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/canary-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"Canary Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">GR131 &#8211; Transverse Route across the Islands<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Part 1. Lanzarote &#8211;<\/strong> <strong>19th to 24th February 2024<\/strong>. <br><br>This path across Lanzarote has the snappy name, Camino Natural de \u00d3rzola a Playa Blanca and is a trip to the top of and around the various volcanoes that make up the island. I will also be adding in the circumnavigation of a island of the North East coast called La Graciosa which is reached on a little ferry.<br>As usual started poorly, leaving my computer in the car again. This time I manged to get almost as far as the security counters before I noticed. A bit of a hike to the carpark and back again, but no matter, had time enough.<br>I&#8217;ve come to believe that toilets on a plane are a very bad idea. Somewhere that I can avoid for four and a half hours even though I&#8217;m bladderly challenged but overly frequented by those that don&#8217;t prepare. I&#8217;ll exclude people who need it on medical grounds but for God&#8217;s sake, some of the drunken scum that made the journey so pleasant for everyone were at it four or five times. And who the fuck shits on a plane!<br>The very camp air-steward did offer some amusement with his Peter Kay pronunciation of Lanzarote which he insisted on shouting out as if at a musical evening for the oldies &#8211; Lanzaarrot &#8211; tay.<br><br>This is the first part of my traverse of the Canary Islands and Grand Route 131, the completion of which will require five visits at least. Visits that I&#8217;m most unlikely to be able to make given the hideous outcomes inherent in a divorce. <br>Headquarters for this part is the Hotel Lancelot Playa in Arrecife. Buses are good so I&#8217;ll just to and fro it.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Part 2. Fuerteventura &#8211;<\/strong> <strong>18th to 26th February 2024<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Almost a year to the day and I made it back to complete the 2nd part of the GR131.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GR131 &#8211; Transverse Route across the Islands Part 1. Lanzarote &#8211; 19th to 24th February 2024. This path across Lanzarote has the snappy name, Camino Natural de \u00d3rzola a Playa Blanca and is a trip to the top of and around the various volcanoes that make up the island. I will also be adding in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3384","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3384"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4849,"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3384\/revisions\/4849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}