Parador de la Gomera, La Gomera

La Gomera - love it, hate it. Judge for yourself

Advantages: Hot, beautiful
Disadvantages: long journey, not much to do

approx 40 minutes to cross. On the boat was a bar and plenty of places to sit inside and out on deck. It was quite a nice crossing and if you are lucky, which we were, you'll see Dolphins. We then arrived in La Gomera. If you think of the island as being like a clock and the port - San Sebastian de la Gomera is at 4 o'clock, where we were going - Playa de Santiago is at 6 o'clock, but to get there we had to go right to the middle of the island - through a rain forest, up a mountain and back down to the 6 o'clock position. Basically there is no coast road. So it took 1 1/2 hours to reach our resort. This is my next negative about the island. Everywhere we wanted to go, we had to go up the mountain in the middle and then back down the other side. The roads on the island take quite abit of getting used to. There are some quite scary ...

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Review of La Gomera

La Gomera - refuge from Tenerife

Advantages: Quiet, scenic, fine weather
Disadvantages: Cabin-fever

La Gomera is a smaller Canary island which can clearly be seen from the coast of Tenerife. It can be reached by roll-on car ferry from Los Christianos, and the journey is similar to a Channel crossing in length, only the water's bit deeper, since both of the islands are effectively dormant/extinct volcanos rising from the Atlantic floor. Along with nearby Tenerife, it was the last re-victualling point for Columbus' many trips to the New World. The island's shepherds and hill-farmers have developed a unique language of whistles for communicating with eachother on account of the rocky terrain and the depth of ravines, which make sharing the odd joke rather difficult. By the time you read this, the island may well have an airport, which could alter the character of the place. It is thought to be a short runway affair intended ...

BNibbles 16.12.2000 (08.03.2001) · Read full review
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Review of Gomera (Spain)

Creme de la Merde!

Advantages: This 'designer' cream will turn your bathroom shelf into a shrine.
Disadvantages: Your bank manager will none too pleased.

I have read nothing but rave reviews about Creme de la Mer, an A-list moisturiser with an A-list price tag attached. Magazines are forever gushing about this product, associating words such as 'miracle' and 'extraordinary' to it so naturally curiosity got the better of me. Now although I can be somewhat of a beauty product victim and quite impulsive, even I know that forking out around eighty-eight quid for an itsy tub (30ml!) of this wonder is just plain ridiculous. So I sought to foreign lands, the U S of A to be precise, with hope that I could purchase the product for a fraction of the price - this was roughly about a year ago folks, before recession, when the value of the pound was almost two dollars, and so I managed to get hold of it at just over a hundred dollars with postage and packaging which luckily worked out no more than ...

Koena 21.04.2009 (20.04.2009) · Read full review
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