This is an apology to SY and to the forums readers.
Have spent some time in the night thinking over this SY scenario ... and realising that I have missed some important points .... and was very probably wrong in my hasty assessment of the SY scenario of a guest walking back from the creche. In my early thoughts, and seemingly in the early thoughts of others, it seemed entirely the wrong direction
However, having thought it over well.
Let us consider.
1) Where did pertinent holiday makers place their children to be looked after during the day?
2) The alleyways. Would they be too complex for a person who didn't walk that way on a several times daily basis to a creche? They are like a rabbit warren and in three days I hadn't got them fully sorted and I was trying.
3) What would be the likely alternative route for someone who did NOT go to the reception /creche normally, so never travelled the rabbit warren?
The creches/kids clubs
There were three creches/kids Clubs that we know about.
i) The daytime creche for the very young. It would make sense that this was also the evening creche for all ages. Beds etc.
This was situated next to the main reception.
David Paynes daughter Scarlet used this club, so he knew the back, short cut route
The man in question was leaving this creche
ii) Kiddies Club for 2 - 3 year olds.
This was situated by the Tapas and tennis Courts.
If this mans child used a club, as a 2 year old, this would be the club
So this man would likely not know the back short cut route to Reception ' a veritable maze of alleyways!. Quite likely that after check in, when he arrived, he NEVER visited Reception again until his child stayed that one evening. .
iii) The older kiddies club for 4 year olds upwards. Madeleine, a few days short of 4 years old went there.
This was again situated by the main reception and the baby creche
Anyone with a child at either the baby creche or the older kiddies club, both next to the main reception would know the short cut there ... and this is the route that in an ill considered period, I rather foolishly thought this man would take.
However, there is no reason that he would consider it becos he had never had cause to go to that creche, before that evening. Sensibly he would almost certainly opt for the main road route which, by then, he would know. This is a distance of very approximately 600 metres. This would take him along up R. Primeoro de Maio and turning right into R Agostinho de Silva to exactly the spot of Jane Tanners sighting
The routes have been fairly comprehensively discussed in an earlier thread (gilet or John may be able to identify the thread)) IIRC from 5A gate to the Main Reception was 268 metres (or yards) via the warren of alleyways.
I think Anne said this man was going to 6B. The distance there would be about the same at about 268 metres.
Comparing 600 metres to 268 metres, one would not readily expect someone to take the longer route.
But having considered the likely facts, I now accept that I was very probably in error. I was too hasty.
It was an understandable error that I, and others, made. Never the less, I apologise both to SY for rejecting their theory and to the readers here.
sadie
