Perfect Day

So the next day we had to go to the travel agency and get the car at 9:30am but we didn't really want to get up that early. We stayed in bed a bit longer, had breakfast and finally I was too German to wait longer and forced my boyfriend to get up. We left the appartment quickly - too quickly. Just when I had shut the door I got a bad feeling. My boyfriend told me to lock the door and I wanted to get the keys out of my bag, but there were no keys. I had left them in the appartment! 

It was quite bad luck - I had never ever before forgotten my keys inside the appartment, not even in Germany. And now, the last day I would live there I forgot the keys inside. The day it was the most important because I would have to move in the evening and I really hated myself, but as my boyfriend told me - I couldn't change anything right now and so we went to the travel agency to get the car. When we arrived the car wasn't there already (of course) and we had to wait 20 minutes. Finally, we had the car and brought it to the garage first, because I wanted to go to the real estate agency to ask if they could call the owner - I would need her key anyway. So we went there and she called the owner but she didn't reply. I signed the contract for the new appartment, paid the 900 euros and got the keys. She told me that she would continue calling the owner and we should enjoy our day - she would call me as soon as she had the keys. Furthermore it was Friday, so the office would stay open until 8pm - a lot of time to go somewhere and see something from the island. 

So we went to the supermarket, bought some water and fruits and went to the parking of our car. I wanted to go to the south with my boyfriend because the weather in Puerto de la Cruz was still not the best and usually in the south of the island it's better. He wanted to drive, so I looked for the direction in Google Maps and let my mobile phone direct us to El Médano, a very popular and nice beach. 

After 1,5 hours of driving we finally arrived in the small village next to the beach and found a parking quickly. We were hungry, so we had a coffee and a small snack and relaxed a bit in a café right next to the beach. After a while we left the café and started to explore the beach. At first, when we arrived it seemed very small and not quite spectacular. But when we went on for about 5 minutes we saw the real El Médano. It was beautiful! It was a large, wast beach with brown and golden sand and looked a bit like in the desert. At the beginning there were some caves where one could have a "private beach" a bit hidden from the others, but we didn't have any clothes for bathing so we just took off our shoes and went alongside the beach. 

When I wasn't able to forget the key-problem from the morning until now, from that moment on I forgot it. It was such a beautiful place with such a great person - it was a perfect day for me. We went along the water for 30 or 40 minutes, enjoyed the sun and the water, explored the beach and loved spending that time together. It was like entering into another world, away from all the problems with the appartment, the keys, the work to a place of peace with few people were we could forget everything. We took hundreds of pictures, laughed, walked for the whole afternoon. 

Finally, we decided to get back to the village and have a small dinner before we would return to Puerto de la Cruz. The walk back was shorter because we already knew the place and there was nothing left to discover, but it was still nice. Suddenly, it started to rain - a warm rain, and we went into a fish restaurant quickly. There, we had a small dinner and waited until it stopped raining. We decided to discover the village a bit before we would leave because there was still some time left and the agency hadn't called yet. So we walked around, saw a beautiful rainbow over the sea and saw the sunset (which was quite early because there was a mountain at the end of the beach). Finally, the woman from the agency called me and  told me that the owner had brought the keys. I was released and we went back to the car to drive back to Puerto.

While driving back there was a lot of traffic because it was friday evening, but we arrived at the agency in time and finally I had the keys of my appartment. But then the not-funny part of the day started: we had to move. I thought that I didn't have so many things but actually it was a lot. Clothes, food, household products, books, laptop, shoes etc. We had to pack everything in bags and my suitcase and bring it down into the car. Fortunately, everything fit into the car and we drove the 500 metres to the other appartment. Then, we had to bring everything upstairs and get back to the other appartment to make sure everything that was mine was in the new appartment. When we were about to leave it, we met an old lady next to the elevator and she had recognized that we were talking in French. She started to talk to us about her life, about her appartment, about her children and didn't stop for about one hour. I was quite impatient beacuse I wanted to finish the move and knew that  there was a lot to unpack and organize in the new appartment, but she simply didn't stop talking. 

After one hour we had convinced her that we really had to go now and went to my new appartment. My boyfriend watched TV and called a friend while I was organizing and unpacking all my things. After 1,5 hours I had finished and fell into bed - I was so incredibly tired. So we (or I) relaxed shortly and went a bit into the city centre afterwards. We had a cocktail and talked about plans for the next day. He wanted to go into the mountains but I was afraid that the weather wouldn't be good enough, so we planned to go to the big shopping centre next to Puerto and eat in the mountains in a restaurant called "Guachinche". When we came home I just took a shower and fell asleep quickly. 

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