Winter in Berlin comes with heavy cold wind, cold showers of rain, snow, red frozen noses and sticky tongues on the metal handles of the doors. This might sound like a nice holiday time for..polar bears. But for me not so much.
So I jumped into an AirBerlin plane and told the pilot:
“Hey, coachman, take me to a hot and sunny place, bitte! Preferably Sahara.”
But the guy was nice and dropped me from the plane 500 km before reaching Sahara, on a gorgeous volcanic island: Gran Canaria!
This is the story in pictures of our first week in Granka!
After a 5 hours flight, I have set foot in Gran Canaria driven by one single thought:
I’m hungry! And so the chase for food began.
Very soon I have noticed there was a tough competition. Everybody on the island was searching for food.
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After a while, I found a beach bar. But the guy at the entrance seemed pretty dehydrated and underfed. So I didn’t take that risk.
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It was clear: I had no choice but hunt something myself. In the water:
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The hunger was stinging so hard that a medusa suddenly seemed a delicious option:
Everybody was laughing at me:
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Including Santa Claus dressed up as Fidel Castro:
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And his cow:
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And some aliens which disappeared quickly leaving behind just some small traces:
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A few days later I have finally found some food. For my thirst 🙂
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I emptied the bottles of beer in a blink of an eye which left some people in shock and Frieda Kahlo envious.
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They called the police and the bomberos.
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What shall I do?
I stole an old, shabby car and rushed through the city.
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We managed to escape to Santa Catalina Park:
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Where we have also found some bocatas
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Dare to live your own adventure!
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