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Puerto Rico - Gran Canaria
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 s I walked into the shopper's paradise of Gatwick Airport, I could at last
relax - a nightmare with travel agents and tour operators was over, and they
could harm me no more.
The only person who didn't appear to be full of spirits was Mark Stevens (Stevenage) who complained to me about the location of the airport being 1 hour away from Puerto Rico - as if I could do magically transform the motorway we were on into a beach and sea landscape! Puerto Rico was bigger than I had imagined, and had a magnificent new
beach - they shipped the sand in from the Sahara Desert. Several of us
ventured to the great sand dunes down the road where one could ride a camel,
and the interior of the island was very scenic with mountains and palm tree
valleys, and even a huge crocodile park where you could actually poke one's
tail if you fancied a quick game of 'Dare'. However, some things to this day puzzle me. For example, why do they give
you a receipt for going to the toilet? Or, why are there scales to weigh
yourself every 10 yards, chained down to the ground? And why put the foot
washing taps on the beach, tantalisingly out of reach of the pavement, so
that having washed your feet, you have to perform acrobatic manoeuvres to
actually keep the sand off? |
I decided to go snorkelling and look for fish. My sea entering strategy is
usually to wade in very slowly to get used to the chill factor. This usually
works, except on this occasion when a small boy ran in beside me splashing
cold sea all over me. Having got over the shock, I discovered that by
swimming out a little, there were several wonderful fish to be seen. Puerto Rico at Night 
The holiday of course had its moments - Chris Tillyard (St. Albans) bringing
his mother's passport, Paul Hudson (Stevenage) having to pay 1500 psetas
(£6) because a woman grabbed his arm and burned a wrist bracelet onto him,
Sharon Smith's waiter (Barnet) running round adjoining restaurants trying to
find her a chocolate mouse, and Lucy Smith's taxi driver (Watford) for
asking her to cover up, and for complaining about the sand on the back
seat - What do you expect when you choose to spend your life giving people
lifts home from the beach?Puerto Rico Sunset 
The weather was superb all week, and suddenly it was time to go home. No
more deciding which book to read on the beach, or whether to have coke or
beer by the pool. I am already looking forward to Kos 2001.
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