There are some benches out there which have an iconic status.
Benches which emotionally, historically, location-wise, view-wise or in other terms stay for eternity in the memories and hearts of the people who had the pleasure to get to know such a bench.
The Casa Maria sundown bench at the beach of the Canarian Island La Gomera at the sea side end of the beautiful Valle Gran Rey is one of those iconic benches.
(In fact there are two benches, but since they are both placed in front of the Casa Maria (an evenly iconic bar) it makes them basically as one entity)
If this bench could talk, the tales would fill endless book shelfs with funny and sad, hilarious and serious, non-sense and save-the-world-talks and millions of all kind of colorful stories. Countless discussions took place here and evenly countless butts have polished that bench.
That this bench had a long life you can easily recognize when you have thorough look at the picture. The wrinkled seating treated over all the years by the blazing sun. The shore side winds and salty sea water done their part too. The left leg injured, tired from carrying all the weight for so long. (The bench would deserve for sure a better treatment then how it is currently fixed). Still, all the hardship is rewarded every day with a fantastic sundown scenery.
And I can tell you sitting on that bench, having a sundowner, listening to the drummers at the beach in front of you who are playing for the farewell to the sun for that particular day, and watching one of those extraordinary sunsets: There is nothing more you need.
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