Tuesday, January 25, 2011
We decided to keep the rental car for one more day and use it to get to Grand Case in the evening, where they close off the main street on Tuesday and set up stalls with work from local artisans as well as numerous food purveyors. During the day we did some final purchases and did another drive around the island. I would like to depart on Wednesday and the weather forecast looks a lot better, yet Arita is still awaiting their package and I plan on heading south with them for the first stages of the trip. While I thought it might be rather early to head to Grand Case, we all drove up at 17:00 and were incredibly lucky and fortunate enough to get a parking space very close to the main drag; although we did have what looked like a power line lying across the back of the car which Rob assured me was only for telephone use but since he’s Australian and probably still uses a didgeridoo for distance communication I remained suspicious and stayed away from the cable insofar as possible. We were just in time to see many of the stands in daylight and had a nice meal at one of the outdoor tables before perusing the displayed wares on the street on our saunter back to the car. By the time we left, the city was packed with people and certainly there were no parking spaces to be had within a 2-km circle.
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