Days 5-7: Proof-reading my Master's thesis

We started the day with a shopping walk along the beach promenade to the south, approaching Los Cristianos. It was rather windy, and we could watch some surfers. I had to pay “douchebag tax” several times during our holidays, as I didn’t manage to get a data tank for my digital photographs in time, and so I had to draw on the duties of various photo services to get some CDs or DVDs burnt with my pictures. Due to the wind, the beach wasn’t too inviting, and so we stood at our balcony. I had started to read through a printout of my Master’s thesis and wrote down some notes for correction. I felt comfortable with the content and didn’t have the impression that something important was missing. In the evening we had a gran paella at the restaurant La Gran Paella.

The next day we went earlier to the beach than usual. We had strong wind, nice waves, and watched several flying sunshades. At 15.15 we were ready to go with the Freebird One for our whale watching eco-tour, but unfortunately it was cancelled due to the weather, and so we had coffee and ice cream instead. Later we had dinner at an Italian.

On Friday morning we met our tour guide Gitti to defer the ship tour to Sunday. We also booked a visit to La Gomera for Monday and rent a car for Tuesday ‘til Thursday. After breakfast we had a parking space reserved in our hotel, as it would be rather difficult to find one in the “wilderness” of the city. We took a longer walk again, this time to the north, reaching the classy Playa del Duque. Later we went to the supermercado to buy bread, ham and wine for a home-made dinner. We went to bed earlier, as the Loro Parque was calling.