San Sebastian , La Gomera

After having some breakfast Sean, Dad and I went out of the marina gates in the tender to go and do some snorkelling we found an ideal spot just near a headland so we jumped off over the side and went in the water, we saw quite a few colourful fish swimming around us and I even saw a bigger fish eating one of the littler fish. After about forty minutes we decided to get out of the water and go back to the boat and when we got back to Invincible, we looked through the fish book which we have and we found out that some of the fish which we saw were cuckoo wrasse.



Sean and I then went for a walk around the town to try and find the super market and we were successful after a bit of walking about through the streets, whilst we were there we had to pick up some beers for the carpenters as we had to go back again and kindly ask for another piece because the first piece of wood he gave us was too small.

We then came back and had some dinner we had some mushroom spaghetti which is one of my favourite foods and we even had dessert and that was pineapple rings with condensed milk which was the first time that me and Sean had tried it and it was a treat that Dad used to have when he was a boy and he thought that we should try it and we were very impressed by it and that was before we set off on our massive walk to get to the top of the steep hill behind the marina to go to Parador hotel so we could get some of the best views of mount Tiede on Tenerife, the Parador is set in some beautiful gardens right on top of the cliff which overlooked most of the town.
The reason why we climbed all the way up the hill to the Parador was because Dad had realised that is where the Anne Hammick cover shot from the Atlantic islands book was taken so he wanted to go up and retake it for himself, but our picture did turn out a little differently as the palm tree had grown and wasn’t in the picture.



We then stopped of in the bar for some drinks before we went back down the hill to the cave bar were we had one more drink and it was as if we were regulars because the barman remembered our drinks and served them us straight away.

We walked around for a while trying to find somewhere to eat but there were not many restaurants they were all more like cafes, but we did find somewhere after a while it was like a traditional Spanish restaurant it had a courtyard with a tree growing in the middle of it and it used palm leaves to cover the roof for some shade.
For starters me and Dad each had one of the Gomerian specialities of cheese and spicy peppers which is called almogrote and Sean and Jo had garlic bread, for main meals I had tuna with Canarian Potatoes, Sean had Chicken and Dad and Jo each had a pizza, we even managed dessert as we wanted to try another Gomerian speciality which was a milk pudding with honey called leche asada however they had run out so we couldn’t try it so instead we tried the flan but that still was not as good as the one Jo had made the previous night for us all.

When we headed back to the boat we had a game of cards, which gets very competitive between us all to see who can win which Dad did and after a while of playing cards we all decided to call it a night and go to bed.

Alex Penney