On Tenerife now, day 3 of what's effectively 6 given arrival/departure times.
Flight out all good. Jet 2 make a lot of use of routes that take the aircraft way out over the Atlantic. Literally over water all the way from the Pembrokeshire cost until a fleeting view of Madeira. Passport control at TFS was a bit of a shuffle but by the time we'd done that baggage was on the carousel.
Avis car hire was off site and the bus stop was a massive route march from arrivals. Then a bit of a wait behind people who seemed not to have done this before. An hours drive, mostly on Motorway then a battel to find the hotel which Google thought was up a back jigger when in actual fact it's over the street - more or less - from the sea.
Shades of the seventies in that there's a building site under the window but it's not actually noisy, what sound there is is drowned out by crashing breakers.
Monday spent exploring Puerto de la Cruz which is actually quite nice. Plenty of nice cafes etc.
Yesterday we thought we'd explore the south - Los Americanos etc - but had to be satisfied with driving round as parking is a chuffing nightmare. Appreciate there's a huge market for places like that but not our thing at all. Like Dad before me I like quieter places.
Lot of English guests are bitching about the food, particularly dinner. International buffet, loads of choice, and as we paid in the UK I think we're only paying a few tens of pounds each over and above B&B.
Excitement today was that the hire car was gone. There at 07:30 when I was on the balcony but gone after breakfast. Turned out the space we'd left it in was needed from today by the folks building the watersports centre under our window.
Took most of the morning to find the pound in the town. Fifty Euro fine was OK, a further eighty for the tow fee less so!!
PLan for today was the zoo but we've re-jigged that for tomorrow and are having another day around the resort.
Weather is good. Warm as UK in June. Odd effect with cloud and the mountains though. Clear in the morning but like Skiddaw on a wet november by lunchtime. When we go up to the Teide we need an early start.
I think a week is enough for us to say we've 'done' Tenerfie. Perhaps Gran Canaria or one othe smaller islands next time.
Edit: While I was writing the above it's clouden over and we've now got warm drizzle.
Last edited by: Bromptonaut on Wed 13 Mar 24 at 13:01
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