{"id":17820,"date":"2014-08-25T06:34:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T06:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/struth-is-this-the-worlds-most-remote-hotel\/"},"modified":"2015-08-10T08:21:54","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T08:21:54","slug":"struth-is-this-the-worlds-most-remote-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2014\/08\/struth-is-this-the-worlds-most-remote-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"Struth! Is this the world&#8217;s most remote hotel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-Wf_jB-xElLo\/U_rY4YVyduI\/AAAAAAAAovA\/QeuoE9nph20\/s1600\/Spain%2BCanary%2BIslands%2Bel%2BHierro%2BHotel.fell-walker.co.uk.RSX-746968.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-Wf_jB-xElLo\/U_rY4YVyduI\/AAAAAAAAovA\/QeuoE9nph20\/s320\/Spain%2BCanary%2BIslands%2Bel%2BHierro%2BHotel.fell-walker.co.uk.RSX-746968.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<br \/>IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says those looking to a holiday on which to get away from it all should look no further than Spain&#8217;s El Hierro Island in the middle of the Atlantic \u2013 \u00a0long considered &#8220;the end of the world&#8221; until Christopher Columbus did the unthinkable one day and sailed past it to discover America.<\/p>\n<p>The smallest and most south-western of the Canary Islands, El Hierro is a rocky outcrop regularly shaken by earth tremors and volcanic eruptions, and battered by regular Atlantic storms.<\/p>\n<p>But despite its isolation and weather, more-adventurous tourists flock to it for walking holidays, scuba diving and to enjoy its quietly peaceful crowd- \u00a0and traffic-free pleasures, the biggest town having fewer than 2000 residents.<\/p>\n<p>And those who can get in, opt for the tiny Punta Grande Hotel that has just four double rooms (none with phone or TV,) a breakfast room and lounge but no bar. Guests wanting a drink have to walk several hundred metres into town from where the tiny hotel \u2013 originally a circa-1800 Customs Office that checked ships arriving from America into Europe \u2013 clings to an exposed natural rock breakwater.<\/p>\n<p>And its unusual rustic d\u00e9cor comprises items salvaged largely from shipwrecks over the years: portholes, lanterns, old charts, a diver&#8217;s suit and hand-operated diver&#8217;s air-pump, compasses, ships&#8217; name-plates and ominously, lifebuoys.<\/p>\n<p>Friendly and welcoming \u2013 but just don&#8217;t expect to sit outside the day you&#8217;ve done your hair.<br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>PHOTO CAPTION:<\/p>\n<p>[] YOU won&#8217;t get much more remote than this \u2013 the tiny Punta Grande Hotel on the farthest tip of most south-western of the Canary Islands. (<a href=\"http:\/\/fell-walker.co.uk\/\">Fell-Walker.co.uk<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says those looking to a holiday on which to get away from it all should look no further than Spain&#8217;s El Hierro Island in the middle of the Atlantic \u2013 \u00a0long considered &#8220;the end of the world&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,240],"tags":[377],"class_list":["post-17820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-struth","category-struth-3","tag-struth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23027,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17820\/revisions\/23027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}