The Iconic – “Casa Maria sunset bench”


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.

Casa Maria - Gomera
Casa Maria – Gomera

(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)

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View from Casa Maria – Gomera

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.

View from Casa Maria
View from Casa Maria

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.

Sun Set - Casa Maria - Gomera
Sun Set – Casa Maria – Gomera

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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One response to “The Iconic – “Casa Maria sunset bench””

  1. Joachim Avatar
    Joachim

    That is a great writing, I am getting more and more the desire to go back one day to Gomera. It is a pitty that the bar Maria is not operating at the moment anymore.

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