Hard Times for Some

As it happened our party day was also Election Day in Spain. Not much sign of it in Corralejo - some posters and a PP rally (the nasty ones!) - partly because of the Canarian parties. We had intended to locate a red rose to show our allegiances, but forgot - and that just makes worse the depression over the loss of the last significant socialist government in Europe!
Midweek we flew very, very cheaply to Las Palmas for the significant birthday! We stayed as before for three days near Canteras beach. They were preparing  the Belen sand sculpture for Christmas, but already in place was this magnificent opus for the elections. If you can interpret the precise message you have done better than us. Seemed in the right spirit, though!

 On the birthday itself we wandered down to the port area and saw that the Cunard "Queen Elizabeth" was visiting. Huge! Pleasingly it had deposited around the area - albeit for a very short time span - loads of pretty infirm pensioners! Greyrocks felt less decrepit!
We had some strong winds, but it was also frequently very hot. We checked out Galia :- the lovely French restaurant we had in mind for birthday dinner! It was closed and shuttered. Crisis and very sad! Later we came across the (former) owner, but couldn't ask the main question! He offered us a steak at another restaurant he is associated with. We declined and went instead to Triana at the other end of the city . Whilst wandering round looking for a place for lunchtime tapas we found La Travesia,,  saw its menu and booked for the evening. It is a charming old-style tapas bar, and treated us magnificently:- serving the craved duck magret beautifully cooked, and then bringing free flan with sparklers, and the punters sang Cumpleaños Feliz! And then half of Greyrocks was on a State Pension!
We atyed another day and then headed for Maspalomas.