Blogs from Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, Europe - page 14

George took the car to our local ITV (Spanish equivalent of the MOT) station as the first step to getting the car registered in Spain. No issues were found with it. At one point, the car completely surrounded by bemused Spanish engineers how the came came to be in Tenerife. Found out today that as we exported the car within two months of buying it new we can claim the UK VAT back. We will have to pay 5% IGIC in Tenerife instead though. IGIC Tenerife VAT. Double taxation. Went for lunch at a local Spanish café then went gokarting. This was the first time either of our guests have ever been go karting. They had a great time. This will definitely be on the agenda for their next visit in November / December. Our visitors ... read more

As we have only got a small car, today we borrowed a car from one of our friends. We managed to load all the cabinets into it that we had bought from Ikea back in April. We would have had to take them apart if we had tried to put them into our car. Managed to move a few other bits over at the same time. Our guests tried out the beach near to the villa today. They only lasted about 10 minutes and had to leave as the wind covered them in sand. Most of the east coast of Tenerife is fairly windy, ideal for surfing but not quite so for sun bathing. Went to one of our favourite Chinese restaurants this evening for a meal that was enjoyed by us all. ... read more

This trip had been planned for some months, and just happened to fall the week following the purchase of the villa. We spent the morning at the villa doing some final preparation in case we stayed there during our guests visit, then went home and gave the apartment a clean in preparation for their visit. Our guests had joked to us in recent days about meeting them at the airport with a welcome plaque, so this is exactly what we did. We created an authentic board with thier names on. We had them, and everyone else at the airport, with our strange handmade welcome board, but it was well accepted by our guests. ... read more

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Today’s plan was to go to Los Gigantes to go whale watching with the same company we used a couple of weeks ago. After our previous experience of the buses to Los Gigantes, we were heading for the express 477 bus that takes only about three quarters of an hour. We arrived at Los Cristianos at about 8.45am for the 9.00am bus, only to find that the express bus does not run on a Saturday. Following that, we decided instead to look for a boat ride from Las Americas and took the bus to San Eugenio and walked to Puerto Colon Port. We found a 2 hour ride at a negotiated price of 18 Euros each. Sounded perfect. We had time to have a quick coffee and a bite to eat before the boat left at ... read more