Early morning start for our flight to New York. Flight went really well. The New York airport has been closed in recent days due to large amounts of snow fall, but all seems ok now. There is much snow around the city. Looks like they had 4 – 5 inches of it. George has recently been allocated gold membership of American Airlines. This carries certain privileges and means that we can now sit in the economy plus section of the plane with upgraded meals and service etc. This made the 8 hour flight a lot more comfortable. Got a yellow taxi from the airport to the hotel. For the fixed price, our taxi driver took us for a detour through the Queens area of New York which is an area we have not ventured into before. ... read more

Got notification today that the last day in our house will be 22 March 2011. We have a definite date to aim at now ... read more

Got a call back about one of the apartments and arranged for a visit at 12.00 today. Apartment is about a mile in from Las Chafiras. It is a two bed two bath penthouse apartment with views of the sea and the mountains. Cost will be 650 Euros per month. This ticks all the boxes of what we wanted on a place to live. Went to see our friend’s apartment this afternoon. This was a ground floor two bed one bath apartment in the village of Costa Selencio. Rent would be 500 Euros per month. We decided that the first apartment is worth the 150 Euros a month more. Called the owner of the first apartment and told him that we would take it. It is currently not furnished, but he is going to furnish it ... read more

Decided to take a look into Iceland today. We have heard that they stock a lot of the English cannot do without products. Prices were very reasonable, only very slightly above those in the UK. Picked up a couple of English papers whilst we were there. ... read more

Christmas Day Had a lazy morning. Temperature about 20 degrees. It was nice to get some peace from the builders Went to the ‘Surfers’ restaurant in Playa Las Americas for Christmas lunch. Met a friend of ours there who has an apartment that we may be interested in renting when we come back in March. Arranged for a viewing on Wednesday afternoon. ... read more