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

Yesterday Theresa’s sister and her family arrived for a week long visit. This morning we caught the bus into Las Americas and showed them the tourist sites and what Tenerife has to offer in that area. The weather was warm for the day at a comfortable 28 degrees. We walked for two or three miles and our visitors bought a rubber ring and ball to use in our swimming pool. After lunch we caught the bus home and our guests enjoyed an unusually quiet swimming pool. Visited our favourite Chinese restaurant in Las Galletas for an enjoyable family meal. ... read more

Here in Tenerife, today is the longest day. It has been 33 degress for the past two days. We had been informed of many celebrations that were to take part on the local beaches, and had thought we would get a view of the fireworks from our balcony. What happened though took us totally by surprise. As the light was fading at about 8.30pm we notices too very large fires, one in the waste land next to the unfinished shopping centre next to our complex. We watched as these were joined by many smaller fires all around the area. There appeared to be a lack of any fire engines to put out these fires. By 9pm, we could actually see the flames of the fire nearest to us so we decided to take a short walk ... read more