Coral Beach Aparthotel 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'.

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 bekannten Gefilden, wartet auf den seit Jahren bekannten Bus und steht eine halbe Stunde spaeter vor dem wohlbekannten Appartement in Puerto de la Cruz...
mit einem eigenen Herd, einem Kuehlschrank ...

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... something in the crew mess (dining room). When we came back, after 15 mins he recalled he forgot to get sth from there. Forks. "What do we need the forks for? We`ve just eaten??". "We`re gonna eat some noodles with the guys in the lab. They`re working so hard, printing all night long..." Yeah, it as formal night, and out of 3 our printers just one was working, second month in a row. It meant that if you`re printing after formal night, you`d be sitting ...

... that's on the boardwalk. It was very quiet along the boardwalk - not sure why...maybe the weather...but it still was comfortable - around 15 C. Andy was still feeling unwell so I brought him back a salad from the restaurant and a nasal spray from the pharmacy. You can't get many over the counter drugs commonly found in North America without seeing a doctor first. Not many pictures to post today - only the sunset and the cactus tree with a very common morning dove sitting on it. My ...

... car trips time). There were no trails or hikes you could take at the top. After the mountain topping cable car ride, we travelled to another viewpoint where there are volcanic rock formations sticking out of the ground called 'pipes'. The soil around them had eroded away, leaving the pipes sticking up from the surrounding landscape. Again, great views.One other stop was at the last volcano to erupt on the island in 1909. The lava flows were ...

... relaxing. For lunch, we went to the 'Penny Farthing' restaurant. Not very Spanish but very British. The hamburgers ($4E) were very good as well as the pint of beer ($1.5E). All of the other patrons were watching some football (ie. soccer) game on the telly. For the afternoon, Andy and I just read while lounging on the balcony at the condo. John and Dale walked up the cliff and had a wonderful view of the coast. For ...

... it was only halk cooked) at a cafe. You win some, you lose some. We watched some surfers along the Los Americanos beach. They are always amazing to watch (and the ocean feels so cold!). The wetsuits must help. For dinner, John and Dale made a wonderful coconut shrimp dinner with vegetables and rice. The shrimp was freash from the supermarket. The 2 bottles of wine and sitting ...

We woke up at 7am to start our trip via the metro to the airport. The metro wasn't too crowed considering it was rush hour. We reveresed our metro stops from when we arrived and it took about 40 minutes to get to the airport. It was very cheap since we still had the metro tickets left from the 10 pack we bought when we arrived. It did cost 1 Euro to exit the metro system at the airport (airport supplement fee they call it). We flew on Spanair - a low cost ...

... hajszolom őket (tudni kell, hogy anyukámnak amúgy is magas vérnyomása van), és most azonnal menjünk haza! Nos, a valóság nem volt messze az elképzeléseimtől, de a leszúrás hál' Istennek elmaradt. De azt mondta, hogy ilyen halálfélelme még nem volt életébe. Ennek oka több összetevőben is keresendő. Először is, tuti mindenki megijed, aki már 30 éve nem csúszdázott, pláne ekkora óriáscsúszdán. A másik az az volt, amin én is meglepődtem, hogy a víz sós ...