Caledonia Park Playa de las Americas

I first visited Tenerife in 1970 with my parents, it was our second holiday abroad. I have been returning ever since. First with my young children, and now just my wife and I. Although the children, now adults in there 20s still ask, 'when can we come'.

A couple of years ago, we bought a second home just outside Puerto de la Cruz, with a view of spending the winter months here in our retirement. In the meantime we come out two or three times a year 'on holiday'.

... da denn wohl fuer ne Zahl draufsteht!
Abends an der Promenade Sonnenuntergang anschauen ohne Angst zu haben das einem was geklaut wird oder man ueberfallen wird. Ein Privileg das man vermutlich erst so richtig zu schaetzen weiss wenn man aus Suedamerika kommt.

Am 05.06. dann natuerlich das groesste Highlight: Wiedersehen mit Nina!!!
Am Treff*************er werden natuerlich auch gleich mehrere Flaschen Wiedersehensvino vernichtet und die ...

... Hotel H10 Costa Adeje Palace seafront location on the Costa Adeje, the Vinicci La Plantacion, Cleopatra Palace, and Mediterranean Palace.. The island has a temperate year round climate, though particulary popular in the winter months.

... the whole photogs mafia went for a lunch to our favourite chinese restaurant. Yep, I spent my Birthday in Tenerife, Canary Islands. And it was a really nice one. I really didn`t need anything else to be happy. But 2 nights later on something totally unexpected happened. It was right after formal night, which technically meant I felt super tired. The only thing I was dreaming of was showering and catching up with sleep. Suddenly Ronnie knocked on my door ...

Andy was feeling better after the sleep - his cold is still bad but at least his ear ache is better. Today we just took it easy - preparing for the flight to Barcelona tomorrow. John and Dale did laundry (3E each for wash and laundry!). The weather was overcast with a light drizzle a couple of times so no sun tanning today. I went to a cafe that had free wifi if you bought a drink so I had a couple of cups of coffee as I caught up my blog, surfing etc. It was alot easier than the ...

... because we of course had to stop at a little town for the 'opportunity' to buy local crafts/souvenirs. The tour included a guide who spoke German and English (no Spanish!?) The tour guide sounded like Steven Hawking with a German accent! In a word, he was terrible as we could barely understand him and he seemed so bored and uninterested in what he was reciting. We did learn that the 'Canarian potatoes' are prepared by cooking in sea water which ...

... homemade tapas, we had our John's coconut shrimp, Andy's Cesear salad, 'croquettes' (frozen from supermarket, cooked on stove), bread and cheese, prosciutto and ham, 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.

... the balcony watching the evening lights come on also helped make for a great dinner. We decided to try a couple of bars we had seen on the internet but when we arrived they weren't open. The 1 bar only opens at 10pm, we were told by an arriving employee and the other after midnite! Well, that's much too late for old ***** like us so we went back home and had a nightcap there.

... a cheap Chinese buffet restuarant. It was only 6.75E. The best part was the coconut ice cream. One annoying feature of the boardwalk is that each restuarant has a 'hawker' outside of it trying to get you to eat there. You have to just ignore them. There are alot of British tourists here and it doesn't feel very Spanish in this part of the island. On Wednesday, Andy and I went exploring along the boardwalk. It was partly sunny and warm - it feels great to ...

... szűrték. Na de ez még nem vette ele a kedvem egy kis fürdőzéstől! Őszintén szólva féltem, hogy szüleim, akik már elmúltak fél évszázadosak, mennyire is fogják élvezni ezt a csúszdaparkot. Hát az első menet az a nyitott, lapos, s nagyon széles csúszda volt (amiből 6 van egymás mellett, s elég hamar meg lehet pördülni rajta). Először én csúsztam le, s csak a következő menetben jöttek le szüleim. Eleinte egész izgatottak voltak, hogy milyen lesz ez ...