Tenerife, Spain and Canary Islands Travel Blogs

Winter Sun
May 3, 2004

Tenerife 1999 For me the jury is still out on the canary islands. On two occasions we have travelled there after a miserable winter looking for a bit of sunshine to less the seasonal affective disorder. We went to Tenerife in 1999 and got a late deal to ...

Canary Islands
Jul 5, 2008

I'm back from a week-long trip to Tenerife, one of the islands that make up the Canaries. It wasn't exactly what I expected, mainly because the British have taken it over and put up all these tacky restaurants and karaoke bars. Despite that, there were ...

Madrid! ... or so we thought ...
Jan 9, 2009

... as one of the lucky ones.  In addition, Iberia gave us a taxi voucher to take us to Santa Cruz (capital city of Tenerife) and a voucher for the Hotel Taburiente for 2 nights (basically, until our flights leave) AND full board (Breakfast, Lunch, and ...

Tenerife, Canary Islands
Mar 3, 2009

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Aifric.....Kinsale Ireland to Mogan Gran Canary.
Oct 13, 2005

... not doing so. The Ashling left first thing in the morning heading for Funchal Madeira. We left shortly afterwards for Santa Cruz in Tenerife and Yvonne decided to stay. We told her that it was all plain sailing from here on, blue skies and fair winds, ...

Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Jan 10, 2009

... fit into my already stuffed suitcase. Not much to report, other than we are being taken care of by the hotel for our meals and sleeping arrangements.  We hope our flight goes out tomorrow night ... as we have a plane to catch Monday - back to NYC ...

Phase 2 (Ankunft am Zweitwohnsitz)
Jun 2, 2009 (10 photos)

Ein bisschen wie nach Hause kommen... im Anflug auf den Nordflughafen kommt der so oft erklommene Teide mit seinen nun allerdings betrachtet ein wenig laecherlich anmutenden 3817 metern in den Blick, ein Schritt aus dem Flughafengebaeude und man ist in ...

Hello from the Canary Islands
Apr 25, 2009 (5 photos)

Hello from the Canary Islands! We have been in the Canary Islands stopping at the island of Tenerife. The Romans referred to Tenerife using the Latin word for "heaven" and now we understand why they chose that term. We approached the island in the morning ...

Tenerife
Jan 2, 2009

... ; We were in a prop job, so the altitude remained low and you could view the ocean and other islands below.  We flew into Tenerife and immediately noticed how GREEN it was ... beautiful. We arrived at our next resort in good time from the North to ...

Tenerife ~ the "yang" of mother earth
Nov 11, 2005 (10 photos)

Tenerife~ As the most famous of all the Canary Islands, this island provides a diverse landscape from a snowcapped mountain of Pico de Teide (noted as Spain's highest) to mile-long beaches of Playa de las Americas. It may only take a day to drive around ...

Aifric.......Kinsale Ireland to Mogan Gran Canary.
Oct 16, 2005

... up reasonable early and went and had a wash. I went and had some breakfast and went for a stroll came upon a large market and it was humming. I spent the morning browsing and then went back to the boat to tell the lads about it. Our Skipper was getting ...

Tenerife: Fanta and a Tumble
Nov 14, 2008 (4 photos)

... off, crossing a busy street to get to the Plaza de Espana, from which all the main streets seem to radiate. I'm feeling pretty rotten, and my vertigo has come back (so it probably is my ears after all), but I've been walking pretty well, so I decided not ...

Crafts, Volcanoes, and Dolphins - oh my!
Jan 7, 2009

... due to fewer ferry services in January 2009 (as compared to the summer months) - so off back into the mountains of Tenerife. Our first stop was Vilaflor, the highest village (altitude) in the Canaries.  Vilaflore was an interesting place to get to ...

Three Kings Day ... by the Pool
Jan 6, 2009

... We stepped out of the car, got blasted by a cross wind of cold rain from the clouds - promptly got back into the puddle jumper and made our way back down the twisty roads to the resort, where the sun was out in full force. The rest of the day was spent ...

Whales, Poolside, and last night at Pearly Grey
Jan 8, 2009

... . Karen/David exchanged email addresses with us and we hope to stay in touch.  It was very nice getting to know them the past week at Pearly Grey. More adventure tomorrow as we leave the islands and venture off to Spain´s capital city, Madrid.

Radoby odpocinek na karibskych plazich
Sep 22, 2007 (9 photos)

Dojela jsem do Santa Fe, ktere podle debilniho Lonely Planet melo vypadat jako malebne primorske stredisko a brana do narodniho parku Mochima, rozkladajiciho se na nekolika desitkach ostruvku. Ve skutecnosti je to dira, kde chcip pes a kde neni vubec nic. ...

The spectacular whales of the Canaries
Jan 4, 2009

... in the distance.  We have found the resident, short-finned pilot whale that inhabits the bounty rich waters between the islands of Tenerife and La Gomera.  There were mothers with calves at their sides and they were beautiful.  A couple of ...

Southern Tenerife - North by Northwest
Jan 3, 2009

Today we went for a car ride to the north western tip of the southern end of Tenerife (if you saw a map, that statement would make sense). We first ventured from our hotel which is near Adeje.  From there we took the TF-47 (a good road) to Los ...

TravelPod meetup
Mar 5, 2008 (7 photos)

... was a quick break in the cloud which afforded us a brief glimpse of the island of La Gomera, which was much closer to Tenerife than I realised.  Once back at the car we drove back down into the valley, dropped Pamela home and started our journey back ...

Look at those mountains!
Mar 2, 2008 (14 photos)

... the car and go, so we had something to eat then got on our merry way. First impressions of Tenerife are that it's extremely mountainous and has masses of banana plantations, it's beautiful.  Upon seeing the banana plantations my mission for the day ...

Saved the best for last
Mar 8, 2008 (19 photos)

... scenery we'd seen during the entire week - we had no idea, but we had unintentionally saved the best for last. If you ever go to Tenerife and only have enough time to do one car journey - then this has to be it - from the cable car at Mount Teide, then ...

Pyramids, Mountains & Sea
Mar 3, 2008 (13 photos)

... people is the Basilica De Nuestra Senora de Candelaria which houses a replica of the Virgin Mary, patron saint of the Canary islands. Neither myself nor John are particularly religious, we just like to look round churches and monasteries - particularly old ...

In search of the real Tenerife
Feb 26, 2008

... I am going to Tenerife - "can't see you there" has been one comment - well, neither can I if you are taking Tenerife as a whole and pigeon holing it into probably the two most famous resorts on the island, Playa de las Américas and Los Cristianos.   ...

Getting there
Mar 1, 2008

... to sneak in through any open crevice if they can and almost beg for food!   It's usually a four hour flight to Tenerife from Luton, but after a couple of hours the pilot informed us that we had caught a jet stream which would work in our favour and ...

Pete's Having an Affair and I'm Leaving Him......
Nov 29, 2008

... your mind, over and over again. We have been together for 22 yrs now, why? Of course she is a lot younger than me, and perhaps in a little better shape, still young and streamline, the innocence of youth.... A first it was the gentle caresses he gave her ...

The last day on Tenerife
Mar 2, 2009 (4 photos)

... today - only the sunset and the cactus tree with a very common morning dove sitting on it. My final thoughts on Tenerife - it has great weather and it's an easy life - but it has a retirement home feel, especially where we were staying. There isn't much ...

There Are No Canaries In The Canary Islands
Nov 20, 2008 (41 photos)

They say there are no canaries in the Canary Islands and there's none in the Virgin Islands either!! Sorry old joke but it amuses us here in Tenerife... We had a really quick overnight sail from Lanzarote and arrived here in Santa Cruz early in the ...

Loro Parque day
Aug 30, 2007 (8 photos)

... show as the trainers have worker longer with the Sealions. There are also gorillas, chimpanzies, a white lion and hundreds of different birds (amongst others). The highlight for me is the penguin display where you stand on ...

Sun tanning and homemade tapas
Feb 28, 2009 (11 photos)

... olives and finally, red wine. It was very good and much easier then trying to figure out which restaurant to go to! Afterwards, we played Kaiser again (and drank a wonderful Spanish bottle of cabernet wine) and as usually, John and Andy kicked our butts.

Sailing north of Tenerife
Feb 26, 2007

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