It doesn't have quite the wildness that Thoreau sought, but it has a touch of the wild, and it's exactly the kind of spot that invites a spontaneous afternoon trip.
Spiky hair, with upstanding cap peaks and mixes of lace with shiny silver leather, brought a touch of the wild from Simone Rocha.
The Love Story look was around, as was the groupie look, as was the Studio 54 look (with a touch of the Wild West thrown in – don't ask) at Diane von Furstenberg.
Also at the edge of this southern resort, you'll find a touch of the "wild west" at Sioux City (00 34 928 762 982; siouxcity-grancanaria.com ), a Western movie-set town populated by knife-throwing Indians, Mexican bandits and can-can dancing showgirls.
There is a rush to do just that, especially since CERs are changing hands for €7 or €8 and European allowances are heading for €30.Europe's carbon-trading markets have a touch of the Wild West about them.
Summer brings an emerald glow of samphire (poor man's asparagus); grey seals hang in the water, bringing a touch of the wild to a summer's day that is patterned with English beach paraphernalia windbreaks, deck chairs, plastic buckets and spades.In the autumn all changes again.
But underneath the stereotypical Swedish orderliness and calm, a touch of the wild still lurks.
There's even a touch of marketing: "Wild Pizza," "Cafe Ol " (for Mexican food) and " Bun Appetite" (for sandwiches).
But his foraging-first restaurant Girasol seems to be doing just fine, zapping arrangements of peaches, burrata and crisped lentils with a touch of bracingly bitter wild mugwort; flavoring the inevitable hamachi sashimi with wild sorrel instead of citrus; saucing the grilled prawns with a mole made with 19 different mountain-picked herbs.
Now internet giant TripAdvisor is launching a "no touching of wild animals" policy, whereby it will no longer sell tickets to attractions where travellers come into physical contact with captive, wild or endangered animals.
