People.

I think I am beginning to agree with my girls, I don't like people. Don't get me wrong friends are a different thing, they can be in mobs and noisy as they like. I know I have become city adverse over the past few years and I thought that I disliked airports because of the baffling security measures but Saturday morning's check in took 20 minutes from arriving at the airport to looking for breakfast the other side of security but I was still unhappy and then it came to me it was the hordes of strangers with bad personal hygiene getting in my way, invading my personal space, talking too loud and generally making me feel claustrophobic. OK that cleared the air now the good and bad news.
I booked airport parking and my hire car with TRIB at Ryanair, the parking was good but the price I paid for the hire car which looked fine at the time turned out to be a deposit only and the final cost was over double including the mandatory full cover insurance. I thought I was worldly wise to these scams but obviously not. All I can say is beware of any deals Ryanair offer and steer clear of CarTrawler.
The good news happened today. The reason for the jaunt to Gran Canaria was to offload my timeshare, I had been quoted fees of up to £6,000 by timeshare resolution companies but after half an hour of straight talking we have agreed that my contract will be put forward for resolution and in the meantime my week will be rented out to cover my maintenance fees  and believe it or not there will be a small cash some due after Spanish taxes, this is a far better rsult than i had ever hoped for.
Coming back to Gran Canaria without Jan has been very strange, especially as i am staying in our timeshare apartment where we spent our last Christmas together but it is other things like our favourite locals restaurant where they still remembered us or the cafe on the beach in Playa del Ingles where she bollocked the waiter for being rude or Puerto Mogan where we had strawberries and ice cream overlooking the marina. The memories are wonderful and more meaningful because I will probably not return here again.
The best thing about the Canaries is the weather, i have been enjoying temperatures in the mid twenties which is just right for me so it is shorts, T shirt and flipflops all day, which is a lovely change after all the rain.
There has been a big change in the four years since we were last here, then the Brits were in the majority followed by the Germans now it is all three of the Scandanavian countries followed by us Brits and Germans in joint fourth place, you only have to look at the restaurant menus to see this in fact in some places the menus are only in Norwegian, Swedish and Danish. From my memories of the sixties, Swedish and Scandanavian girls always had the reputation of being beautiful but from what I have seen here British girls beat them hands down I can't wait to get home.