Blogs from Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, Europe - page 11

Another day ahead of us the same as the last...excellent! Found our spot by the main pool, as usual, then breakfast by the pool, as usual. Keith found the perfect table, hidden behind the main area, but still right by the pool...perfect because we could wrap our lunch and slide it into our bags relative ease! Still no strawberries so we had to be happy with pineapple daiquiris (which we were!) delivered by our special black waiter (that sounds racist but we don't know his name so we distinguish them by calling them the friendly black waiter and the friendly Irish waiter!). Anyway, the friendly blcck waiter delivered our drinks but warned Rach that she was turning brown, and soon she would be his colour, and then he wouldn't like her as much! The usual swimming ... read more

Continuing on with the theme of Tenerife mornings we were awake early after having barely any sleep due to the constant lovely snoring tunes that were playing in our room all night! We naturally were excited about breakie and about getting lunch prepared at breakie after already trying our hand at being sneaky yesterday. So we scoped out a more secretive table for stealing purposes./ We all had the same breakie as usual. I enjoyed my bacon and poached egg on toast with a lil pain au chocolat toasted! Then we made filled rolls ad wrapped them all undercover and shoved them into handbags – naughty but oh so practical and money saving!! J After, we headed back upstairs for the routine sunscreening session and down to the pool. Unfortunately there was another wedding this arvo ... read more

Right...no less snoring last night but luckily we didn’t have a strenuous day ahead of us! We started the day with yet again another yummy breakfast – eggs bacon, omelettes, fresh orange juice, pain au chocolats! Mm! Filled up and ready to lie by the pool for the day! We res­­­umed our posie at the ed of the pool which required us literally to stand up and bend over to slide in the pool barely without even stepping! And that we did all morning. I started reading a really good book recommended by Patsy – A Thousand Splendid Suns. I was engrossed for most of the day yet highly entertained also by the family next to you. A boyfriend and his girlfriend with her family. The boys played catch with her in the water to which ... read more

So quite unhappily the front desk rang us at 2.45am for our wake up call!!!! Not 3.45 as we asked which already would have been freaken early!! So after 3 hours sleeping we were awake. Mum rang them and said can they please call us back in an hour. We had just fallen asleep again 10mins later they rang again confused with what we had asked them and then telling us they understood, they rang us back at 4pm – the time our taxi was arriving!! Lucky we were up already – cos none of us went back to sleep!! Good thing was due to the crazy hour of our taxi ride it was quick so we had hours to kill at the airport. We actually had to stand and wait for check in to actually ... read more

Africa Mercy has arrived in Santa Cruz deTenerife! The sail went well. We had three days out of the 10 days which were warm and sunny. We saw whales, dolphins, flying fish and sea turtles. I didn’t realize how far the fish flew over the water. They are not very big and fun to watch. Sunday worship was on the bow. The dock here is great. It is a long cement road with an elevated walkway just a few feet from the gangway. The temperature is in the 80's with a breeze. It will be so nice to go for walks without having to dodge trucks and questionable characters. Most of the crew will probably go ashore as soon as we are allowed. There is no curfew while we are here. We should be here about ... read more