Category: Tenerife

Time for some pics.

Garachico

El Guincho

Our flat

Found a friend

And the contrast with back home makes it even better. The news is all about cold and snow (and the World Cup but strangely that seems to have suddenly stopped ….).

And for the first time ever I had my birthday dinner celebration outside!

It’s freezing at home and Eileen’s knee is recovering rapidly so 10 days in the sun beckons.

Travelling was ideal – everything worked efficiently, although Ryanair managed to allocate seats 24 rows apart! Car was upgraded to a Mercedes automatic and had to ask for help to locate the handbrake 😃.

More to follow but probably no adventures.

So this time tomorrow we’ll be saying this time yesterday ……

It’s a bit unexpected but this seems to be the holiday where we’re both the keenest to stay. Funny, because no adventures or hardcore sightseeing – just a great flat, lots of sun and some decent temperatures and quite a lot of decent fish (and I don’t really like fish!).

Nothing new ..

But a lovely view over a lovely lunch. What’s not to like?

But first a couple of (minor, and really not profound) thoughts :

1. If you have an induction hob with instructions in Spanish, it would really help not to include a load of saucepans that don’t work on an induction hob (took us over 24 hours to work that one out);

2. Forgotten what old cars are like – no remote locking, no beepers to guide parking, no cameras etc etc ….

Anyway, we haven’t been far but have found a few diverting places for coffee, lunch, dinner, or just general mooching :

Garachico

Icod

And the world-famous (sic) El Drago tree

La Caletta

Puerto de La Cruz and Orotava

So unmemorable didn’t take any photos!

El Teide

10,000 feet – maybe next time.

Our Village

Our Balcony

It’s nice here!

Our local village

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Coffee …

Walk ….

Lunch … (possibly one of the nicest fish ever – although the freshness and the view helped)

We’ve moved from Alcala to Icod

And this is the view from the apartment

I think it will do for a few days!

Had a trip up to Masca yesterday

That was just for fun on the way back – it was actually stunning.

Otherwise just a bit of mooching with the weather being warm but not always kind.

With a memorable fish dinner at Muelle Viejo

One of the many things I was looking forward to now I can see without glasses is swimming and seeing where I’m going.

No actual evidence exists, but it was fun!

And it’s a holiday so not a lot to report apart from filling in time between eating and sleeping.

And banana plantations must be one of the least attractive agricultural pictures – all concrete and plastic constructions. But banana blossom is weird.

As I write this, I could mention that it’s a bit hot, and not easy to find a place in the shade. Any effort to garner the sympathy vote might be futile!

Anyway, it’s lovely to get some sun and heat at the end of a cold and grey January. Only booked just over a week ago, and so far we have dodged COVID, completed all the right forms and everything went smoothly (even the car hire which is now always the most traumatic).