Dunes & Tunes
I could of course not write about our two week trip to Gran Canaria without mentioning our favourite bar ”Dunes & Tunes” – the Irish bar on the beach. Some of you might remember that I’ve mentioned it before…..
We did of course go back there this time as well. No, not every night, what do you think we are, pathetic? Out of 14 nights in Playa Del Ingles, we did manage to stay away two – 2 – nights!! One of those nights was when we stayed in to make sure we could get up and go to Las Palmas the next day, and the other night was when we went to Sioux City.
Coming back to Dunes & Tunes was great as every, though a bit on the quiet side this time. As was all of Playa Del Ingles for at least the first 10 days when we were there. Everywhere we went we hardly saw any people. Some might argue that this has something to do with the time of the year that we travelled to Playa Del Ingles, but we went there in June last year as well, and even though we did recognize that it was a bit quiet it was by far not as quiet as it was this year.
We did read some disturbing news in the Norwegian free newspaper “Dag og Natt” that the statistics show that during the first 4 months of this year, Gran Canaria has experienced a loss of 100 000 tourists compared to the same time last year. That’s a lot of people. I do hope this is a trend that won’t continue. Even though I’m not the kind of person who likes places to be completely loud and crowded, I still like there to be a bit more than on average 5 persons around except me.
Back to Dunes & Tunes. As I said, during the first 10 days not many people there, which caused them to close early compared to what we’re used to, sometime around midnight. And it also meant that they only had one of their singers on every night. The first couple of days the singer was Murphy, who we haven’t met before, but who turned out to be a really good guitar player as well as a singer. On our third or fourth night there, Archie came back, and on the fifth or sixth evening we finally got to here John sing as well. Archie was on every night after that, John would come in and sing when there were “enough” people – and we did miss him a lot on the evenings when he didn’t come. But, well, being an economist (yes, I do have the papers to prove it, even though I don’t like to talk about it!) I can understand why.
The last couple of nights of our vacation it seemed like people had finally started to discover Playa Del Ingles again and it seemed to be a lot more people everywhere, in Dunes & Tunes too. We can’t wait to go back this autumn! And I can still highly recommend to anyone to go there for some great music, good atmosphere – and really friendly and fun staff!
We did of course go back there this time as well. No, not every night, what do you think we are, pathetic? Out of 14 nights in Playa Del Ingles, we did manage to stay away two – 2 – nights!! One of those nights was when we stayed in to make sure we could get up and go to Las Palmas the next day, and the other night was when we went to Sioux City.
Coming back to Dunes & Tunes was great as every, though a bit on the quiet side this time. As was all of Playa Del Ingles for at least the first 10 days when we were there. Everywhere we went we hardly saw any people. Some might argue that this has something to do with the time of the year that we travelled to Playa Del Ingles, but we went there in June last year as well, and even though we did recognize that it was a bit quiet it was by far not as quiet as it was this year.
We did read some disturbing news in the Norwegian free newspaper “Dag og Natt” that the statistics show that during the first 4 months of this year, Gran Canaria has experienced a loss of 100 000 tourists compared to the same time last year. That’s a lot of people. I do hope this is a trend that won’t continue. Even though I’m not the kind of person who likes places to be completely loud and crowded, I still like there to be a bit more than on average 5 persons around except me.
Back to Dunes & Tunes. As I said, during the first 10 days not many people there, which caused them to close early compared to what we’re used to, sometime around midnight. And it also meant that they only had one of their singers on every night. The first couple of days the singer was Murphy, who we haven’t met before, but who turned out to be a really good guitar player as well as a singer. On our third or fourth night there, Archie came back, and on the fifth or sixth evening we finally got to here John sing as well. Archie was on every night after that, John would come in and sing when there were “enough” people – and we did miss him a lot on the evenings when he didn’t come. But, well, being an economist (yes, I do have the papers to prove it, even though I don’t like to talk about it!) I can understand why.
The last couple of nights of our vacation it seemed like people had finally started to discover Playa Del Ingles again and it seemed to be a lot more people everywhere, in Dunes & Tunes too. We can’t wait to go back this autumn! And I can still highly recommend to anyone to go there for some great music, good atmosphere – and really friendly and fun staff!
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