La Goleta @ The Barcelo Castillo, Caleta de Fuste, Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, Spain

While exploring the Barceló Castillo Hotel complex in Caleta de Fuste, we enjoyed a walk along the sea front and ended up at the beach restaurants and bars of the Barceló Castillo Beach Resort.

The overall impression of the resort was inviting. It was contemporary, stylish and the grounds immaculately kept. Since we liked what we saw, we decided to maybe even stay at a Barceló in the future.

Our favorite outlet was La Goleta, serving around thirty different ice cream flavors, coffee, tea, alcoholic drinks and much more.

It is set up outdoors. All the furniture is white and there are different seating arrangements including comfortable sofas, bar tables and chairs and restaurant style seating.

We went three times on different days in February 2016 to La Goleta and enjoyed always ice cream and orange juice. Sometimes we had La Goleta's own creations or chose a cup with up to two scoops. Of course there was also the possibility to have three.

Most of La Goleta's ice cream creations contained alcohol. While he liked it, I didn't.

The Frappe Lattes come also highly recommended as well as the dulce de leche and coffee ice cream.

Depending what we ordered it cost between 14.90 Euro and 17.40 Euro (ca. 16.90 USD and 19.70 USD).

When returning to Fuerteventura we will be often seen at La Goleta and maybe even stay at the Barceló Castillo in our future.

©2016

Galician Contemporary Arts Center - Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporaneo, Santiago de Compostela Spain

The direct neighbor to the Museum of the Galician People is the Galician Contemporary Arts Center.

Entrance is free, and the building is modern - as expected - inside and out. The design is beautiful, understated and free flowing. I felt it let me breathe.

The entrance is small compared to the size of the building and leads either directly to the exhibition to the left or the restaurant/bar and gift shop to the right.

We were thirsty and a bit peckish, so we went to the restaurant. The space had white walls (like the rest of the museum) and contemporary furniture. Unfortunately our experience wasn't that good. A lot got lost in translation.

I went to the bar to order, only to find out there was a waiter service available, and I had to rush back to our table. It seemed we could only choose from a three course menu the waiter wrote up for us in English on a small note. Since we didn't have that much hunger, we decided to forgo it and take the brownies displayed at the bar. We also had a bottle of ice tea each. When I paid the bill, I thought the price paid was a bit high, costing over 10 Euro (ca. 13.20 USD). The brownie was good, though.
Feeling more refreshed and relaxed we went to the gift shop next. It has art books mostly in Spanish, but also a few in English. Room to move is a bit restrained.

We moved on finally to the exhibition. There are currently three different artists exhibiting. The shows run until October.

Victor Grippo was born in Junin and died in Buenos Aires. Ricardo Basbaum is Brazilian and Graham Gussin British.

All three were different approaches including video installations, prints, artwork with potatoes and marbles.

We liked it and thought it was inspiring.

We recommend the Contemporary Arts Center, but wouldn't go there to eat due to limited choices.

©2013