English // With our Skoda Fabia we start our first trip to San Lorenzo, to explore the island and find some fresh fruits on the local farmers market, which is always on Sunday there. Gran Canaria’s infrastructure is very well developed. You basically have one large autobahn going nearly around the whole Island. If you go more towards the centre of the island the hills-one might call them mountains- get larger and the streets smaller. After a forty minute drive we reached the small village of San Lorenzo. The market was made up of maybe five or six stalls, so it was small and cute. A traditional band was preparing to play some music (we didn’t wait for that, shame on us)but we went and bought the fruit and vegetable grown on the island instead. One particular fruit we should point out is a green pepper that is traditional here. In most cases not spicy only 10% of the fruits are spicy. It tastes a bit stronger than regular green pepper. We bought a large pack, but did not get any spicy one’s.
The village itself is small but has a nice playground which our kids loved. There was actually a wedding taking place in the local church, which is right next to the playground. Some of the bridesmaids even joined the little monsters on the playground, while we were there. One random woman even bought some chocolate and gifted it to our kids. This came with a little lesson of differences between Portuguese and Spanish, super nice.
On the way back we did a little loop and then back on the autobahn to San Agustin. As we realised that both kids were asleep we used the time to explore the South and drive trough the GC-1 until Puerto de Mogan. The whole South of Gran Canaria is very much touristically developed, which bears some advantages but is not really our cup of tea. So if you are like us and you want to explore the culture as well as the country, there will be not much you can find culturewise in the South. It consists of big hotels, holiday complexes, stores selling useless stuff and made up city centres. Puerto de Morgan is one of those places, its probably more high end than Maspalomas but still not the typical fisher mans’ village.
German // Als erstes wollten wir einen lokalen Markt besuchen um ein bisschen das Innere der Insel zu entdecken und uns mit leckeren Früchten zu versorgen. Am Sonntag is in San Lorenzo Markt. Es gibt 5-6 Stände und die Produkte fanden wir sehr gut. Nach dem Markt erkundeten wir noch den lokalen Spielplatz, welcher sich in Laufweite vom Markt befindet und unsere Kinder befanden auch diesen für gut. Nach dem Spielen drehten wir noch eine Runde, um dann zurück auf die GC-1 Autobahn zu kommen und den Rückweg anzutreten.
Kurz vor San Agustin schliefen beide Kinder ein, also entschlossen wir uns diese Situation auszunutzen und noch den gesamten Süden zu erkunden. Wir folgten der GC-1 bis Puerto de Mogan. Der Süden von Gran Canaria ist sehr touristisch erschlossen, man merkt das in nahezu jedem Ort, das hat natürlich Vorteile ist aber tendenziell nicht unser Ding. Jeder soll ja seine Reisen geniessen wie er möchte, aber uns waren diese Hotelburgen und touristischen Kunstkomplexe dann doch etwas zuviel. Eine Strasse war noch gesperrt, also verließ ich mich auf meinen untrüglichen Orientierungssinn und endete in dieser Schotterstrasse. Google Maps brachte uns dann nach Hause.
The End // Das Ende
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