We have a relatively pain-free visit to our hygienist for a change, but still glad it’s over for another six months! We decide to stay in the area and explore it for the first time.
Fañabé (say fan-nya-bay) is the name of a barranco or ravine coming down from the mountain. It lends its name to a beach and area on Costa Adeje, and also a cute little town just alongside the TF-1 motorway near Adeje town.
Most noticeable is the vast gently sloping plain which was previously cultivated, neatly divided by a gridiron of paths and irrigation channels – all left to ruin now. This entire area is supposed to be developed – there’s talk of what will be Europe’s largest film set, with 19 stages. A rough calculation gives me 550 acres which certainly validates the claim – Pinewood is 200 acres. Will it ever happen?
We walk up as far as the water-treatment plant, passing a stables which might just-about be in business, but is looking quite dishevelled. Clearly there’s a rough path beyond, but we are inappropriately shod to continue, so backtrack across the deserted fields.
We identify how to achieve one of our long-term goals – to walk up to the white building which is visible everywhere on the western slope of Roque del Conde – now we know for the next hygienist visit, if not before!
Today we settle for lunch here before returning to wander around the rest of town, and peer into the hill-top church we see regularly from the motorway.
