Paraiso Royal 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'.

... Dusche, eigener Toilette, Schraenke und Schubladen in die man sei weniges Hab und Gut einordnen kann...Ordnung halt.
Wahnsinn!!!
Als Naechstes in den riesengrossen Supermarkt in dem man so ziemlich alles kaufen kann was das Travelerherz nun begehrt...doch hier faengt nun wirklich die Eingewoehnung an:
Beim Zahlen an der Kasse muss ich, genau wie die wohlbekannt und gefuehrchtete Oma vor einem in der Schlange, erstmal jede Euromuenze umdrehen um zu sehen ...

... congested on Tuesdays and Fridays when most of the charter flights arrive, so pick another day. For this visit I stayed in the Jardin Tropical Hotel, although I have visited this hotel many times it was my first stay ...

POLSKI: Chlopcy pytali mnie co chce robic w dniu moich urodzin juz chyba na tydzien przed. Uczciwie rzecz biorac, nie bylo to dla mnie takie wazne. Nie lubie urodzin. Kazdego roku zdaje sobie sprawe, ze cos przeminelo, ze wkraczam coraz glebiej w dorosle zycie. A chlopcy nie przestawali wiercic dziury w brzuchu, wiec w koncu ktoregos razu odparlam: "nie mam zadnych planow, zaskoczcie mnie". W wieczor moich urodzin poszlismy na drinka do zalogowego baru i ...

... wifi access I was using. Our condo unit was just out of range of a neighboring wifi shop so to get proper signal strength I had to sit on the tile floor behind the wall of the outdoor cafe - not very comfortable.... For the evening, we watched our final sunset with our favourite glass of wine - Jaume Serra Cabinet Sauvignon - Roble 2005 from Spain. ($4.40 E - I'll have to check back home if it's available). John, Dale and I went to Corinto, a restaurant we had visited ...

... the landscape and not local stores. We were starving by this time (3pm) so we stopped at one of the myriad of British style cafes/pubs/restaurants that occupy Los Cristianos. But the half chicken with roasted AND mashed potatoes and peas/carrots and cabbage covered in gravy was good ($7E). And a pint was only 1.5E. Everyone was watching some very important soccer match on the telly at all the bars and most of the shops were closed because it ...

... 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 ...

We decided to take the bus to the north of the island, specifically Santa Cruz, the capital and largest city (about 200,000) on the island. We caught the #110 bus at the bus depot, which is only a 15 minute walk from our condo. The toughest part was knowing when to catch it. We saw it coming but it just drove right by the designated stop. I ran to where it stopped at a stop sign and knocked ...

... 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 ...