La Casada Puerto

La Casada Puerto is a restaurant in the old town part of Puerto del Carmen. It is located in the Calle Roque Nublo and specialises in meat and fresh fish specialities. Next door to the restuarant they even have their own Bodega. They are open daily from 1pm until midnight.

And it must be good – because when we wanted to eat there, there were no free tables! We would have to wait a little bit, so we made the mistake of walking up the street a little bit. When we returned there was a queue to get into the restaurant, with about 10-15 people waiting for tables!

So I can only assume, that they are so good, that people are prepared to wait a considerable amount of time to get a table.

In case you want to book in advance, here is the telephone number: 928 512953.

The airport in Sucre

The airport in Sucre (SRE) is located outside the city. It is not equipped for international flights and only has a basic terminal building and runway. The runway can only be used in the daytime as there are no landing lights. I travelled there from Santa Cruz in a Boeing 727 from Lloyd Aero Boliviano (LAB).

Sucre Airport, July 2000

The picture shows the airport looking back from the car park. Our luggage was just being loaded onto the buses at this particular moment.

LAB are currently not flying to Sucre because of operating difficulties.

I have heard stories about cars, in particular taxis, being driven to the airport and parked either side of the runway to allow emergency landing of aeroplanes after dark.

If Sucre is to become the seat of Government then surely the airport will need to be upgraded to international standards.

Biofuel and the Royal Train

OK, not bio-ethanol today, but bio-diesel instead.

Reading the BBC News website I came across an interesting article – the Royal Train in Great Britain is running a trial with bio-diesel to see if it is suitable for normal services.

Yes, the Royal Family have their own train!  Well sort of, there are dedicated locomotives and vehicles that are used for Royal purposes.

And it is one of these locomotives that is now running on bio-diesel.  In September HRH the Prince of Wales used the converted train for the first time.

Read more at the BBC News website.

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