Today we woke up early (10:00), in result of last night's bad weather. Still, the observatory premises were once again inside a cloud! We decided to go down to a supermarket, in Chio, for shopping, 60km West and 1800m below.
The supermarket was known to be there waiting for us because of Google Earth! But well, 60km in these roads has to be made in 1 hour! So the trip to the supermarket, the gas station, and back took 2 hours. As a result, we were not in time to reserve the dinner at the cantina (deadline for that is 15:00). Next time, I will take the TF-24 road towards East, back to near La Laguna, where there is a vast Cash & Carry, with all sort of stuff!
We decided to have lunch on the restaurant in front of the detour to the observatory at El Portillo. The day's menu was eatable but not as tasty as it sounded. The canary cuisine seems to combine the expertise in condiments and the pragmatism of frozen meat... (Ok, so we are at 2200m, and the closest retailers are at La Orotava, through the "scenicly" slow TF-21 road; we should understand). But Thomas' steak au champignon was very appealing!
Enough sight-seeing and eating, we had to go back to the observatory for preparatory work!
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