Blogs from Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, Europe - page 12

So first things first! Happy St Georges Day… So its 4:15 in the afternoon, its my 27th Birthday and it has to be the hottest day we have had so far, so I am quite happy that we have had another day of chilling out in our room, lazing in the sun listening to music, and reading books etc.… It has just this moment become to hot for me, (wuss) so I have retreated inside to update the travel blog for Saturday & Sunday… Saturday was, like today, a day where Maddy and myself just chilled out and didn’t do a great deal, which has been nice, punctuating the days out with a few days of lazing around… Sunday morning we walked down to the Los Cristianos Sunday market, where pretty much, every stall is trying ... read more

So day two of mine and Maddy’s honeymoon, I would say another quiet chilled out day, which considering the visit to Loro park tomorrow is a good think, I have never seen Maddy so excited about a day out... but you will be able to read all about that adventure tomorrow evening... After breakfast, Maddy and I just chilled in our room and out on the terrace sunning ourselves, Maddy snoozed while I read more of George R R Martins epic “ A Song if Ice and Fire” saga, for those interested I am reading book 5 “ a Feast for Crows”, until lunch time, which starts at 1pm for the buffet here, so we headed down to have a quick bite, I also took some time to sort a few things out, using the hotels ... read more

Our next stop was Tenerife. We decided to go for a whale watch. Imagine our surprise when we learned that the "whales" were actually dolphins. Feel compelled to call BS on that one. Anyway, we boarded a catamaran with a bunch of other lazy tourists and were taken out to sea to watch for these whale/dolphins. The sea was blue, the sky was blue, the sun was shining, and there was free wine. This was excellent. Our expert guide was able to find a number of dolphins for us to look at. It's so neat they'll swim lazily alongside the boat and they're like gently undulating monoliths. They looked so fat and funny I just wanted to poke them. This is not allowed unfortunately. I kept wanting to stand up on the rails to better see ... read more

We arrived at Madrid at about 6.30am this morning after an 8 hour flight. During that time the clocks also went back, which made it even worse. We have another 5 hour wait for our flight to Tenerife. To try to make this a little more relaxing, we have booked a lounge for the duration, which we believe is near to the gate that our plane will leave from. Whenever we visit Madrid airport, we always seem to get lost. When we got off the plane from San Juan, we asked at the first information desk where the lounge was. We were advised that we would need to exit the gates and ask at an information desk there. We did this, and were advised to go further out of the airport. We then asked another information ... read more

After last nights events with the cats we are not sure if we are going to be able to get either of the cats to the cattery, so were contemplating asking the neighbour after all. At about 11am, Whisky calmly walked down the drive and started meowing constantly. It seems like we have a friend now. The two cats are never going to be the best of friends, but they are at least tolerating each other now. Looks like we will be able to get them to the cattery after all. ... read more