{"id":3617,"date":"2026-03-18T18:07:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T18:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/?p=3617"},"modified":"2026-03-18T18:18:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T18:18:56","slug":"lanzaventura-day1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/?p=3617","title":{"rendered":"Lanzaventura day1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Arecife to Graciosa via Orzola.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nice meal last night near hotel and slept like the dead after a long day. Hotel was ok but notable absence of any Bentleys outside. The buffet breakfast was poor 5\/10 , machine coffee , artificial fruit juice , square bacon ,the whole nine yards of poor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lovely morning with a tailwind \ud83d\ude0c, cycle path all the way to Costa teguise . NMDDC take note. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then off road into a national park. A fully loaded gravel bike is a different beast when it gets gnarly and takes a while to get used to. Adds an extra level of respect for Doc L after his AMR<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stopped for coffee and carrot cake in what appears to have been a naturist resort. A lot of well tanned appendages, I could get crude with talk of toasted salami sandwiches but it\u2019s before the watershed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then komoot led us slightly astray having recommended a route through another bit of national park. It was very tricky , big bits of lava and soft sand. We nearly turned back but glad we didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then out onto a road with delicious tailwind for a downhill run into Orzola. the ferry was waiting for us with the gangplank down obviously Mr Harty had phoned the captain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Short trip across to La graciosa <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then the rain started \u2614\ufe0f\ud83e\udd28, dived straight into a restaurant for an omelette and a duo of cervezas . <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headed to apartment down main street I kid you not it\u2019s like cranfield strand. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dumped the panniers and headed off to explore the island. It\u2019s beautiful but would be even more beautiful if it wasn\u2019t lashing rain and blowing a gale. Road was paved in places but probably about 50 years ago . super rough in places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A lot of barriers to stop you going off road to protected areas but definitely worth the trip even in the rain<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Back to apartment via supermarket and now trying to dry clothes \u2026. Not likely to happen soon . Wine needs opened. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Great day. Fingers crossed for weather tomorrow as we head to Famara. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\ud83d\udea6Green mostly<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ASS 0\/5 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 minor navigational issue , no breakdowns but chains currently covered in sand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

COC <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Arecife to Graciosa via Orzola. Nice meal last night near hotel and slept like the dead after a long day. Hotel was ok but notable absence of any Bentleys outside. The buffet breakfast was poor 5\/10 , machine coffee , artificial fruit juice , square bacon ,the whole nine yards of poor. Lovely morning with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3617"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3623,"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3617\/revisions\/3623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notthesundayrun.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}