El Cotillo or bust!

El Cotillo is a smallish fishing village on the NW coast of the island. We have been a couple of times over the years but not recently. On Thursday we took the bus. There used to be three a day - now there are ten or so- each taking a rather circuitous route to serve the developing inland communities. Once there the feel is like Paleochora - still remote, small, a bit hippyish but with some well-run bars & resturants and both old and new harbours. Also some ghastly emergent complex/large hotel developments tho' - and these were not there on our last visit! We saw El Toston - the tower - of which we have a photo from 1992 with a toddling Chloe.

We saw the old harbour with its little restaurants that we remember - although our favourite seems long-derelict!

We also walked North towards - but not reaching - the lagoons, and we had a paddle!

It was a beautiful day and although there was an impressive surf there was not too much wind on this side of the island! Note the black volcanic rock which is part of our terrain!

An interesting event was seeing one of the Tiadhe service buses which had been wrecked by fire! When we saw it the bomberos were sweeping up and the bus was still just smoking. we don't know the story - but it looked pretty drastic!
Our return journey was unaffected!