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Day two saw us walking in the National Park at Garajonay – almost entirely in forest and again always either steeply up or down - with a lunch stop at El Cedro for watercress soup and goat stew.

Amazing contrast from the arid landscape of the previous day and an introduction to the ‘horizontal rain’ which is caused by the mist and low cloud condensing on the leaves of the canopy and keeping the forest lush and green even though there had been no actual rain for months.

We returned to the hotel and our promised room change – room one had twin beds, room two had a double bed but nothing worked, we decided to accept a move to room three even though it had twin beds as it was the only thing they could offer. Unfortunately, the ceiling fan sounded like a Chinook helicopter taking off so within a couple of minutes we were on our way to room four. By this point we had had enough and decided to stay since it seems that the maintenance level in the whole hotel is fairly shabby.

While I can understand the challenges of maintaining all the basic systems of an old hotel, a place which charges these sort of prices could certainly do a lot better.

Still managed time for the pool and cold beer before dinner – which was again excellent – probably the best thing about the hotel.