Blogs from Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, Europe - page 18

Weather here not too hot today. Very changeable all day. Spent the morning shopping at the local shops. Bought a new wireless printer, another extension socket, some small knick knack items and ordered a small cross cut shredder. The location of the new printer is no-where near where we use the pc on the dining table. It is connected through the Wi-Fi router that is installed for the internet. Laptop did not initially want to connect to the printer, but we persevered and it eventually worked and we are now up and running. The set up here is very different to what we had at home. A lot more digital than we are used to, but we are slowly getting used to it. Our lucky mascot is here. He is a lucky Buddha we purchased at ... read more

Found a leak under the kitchen sink this morning. The landlord is already due to be here this morning, so will get him to look at this then. Cleaned the car out ready for cleaning after our long journey. Put a load of washing into the machine and it decided to stop working half way through. Another thing for the landlord to look at when he gets here. Out of no-where the internet started working this morning at about 9am. It’s great to be connected to the outside world again. Our pigeon Spanish had sort of been understood on the phone over the weekend. Bought a European extension socket today, but got it home and it did not work. Took the loan Satellite TV box back today and signed to have a permanent one of these. ... read more

We found out The Canarian Weekly Newspaper had been written completely back to front. Tried again to use the internet, but it would still not work. We are not sure if the issue is with the laptop or not, so carried on with our planned day. Took the bus into Las Americas as we have booked to collect a trial TV programme controller today. Unfortunately, the TV programme controller is run through the internet, and as we have no internet, we cannot check out what it does. Phoned our internet supplier and were told that there was another number to call for technical problems, but that they also talk Spanish. Do not have anyone that can help us with this until Monday, so will have to wait until then. We will definitely need those Spanish lessons. ... read more

Went to the market in Los Christianos by bus. Bought some tablecloths Had lunch with the English couple and thanked them for their advice re our Residencia and NIE. Had a rest ready for the journey home tomorrow and the chaos we know it is going to be over the next couple of weeks. ... read more

Left the apartment at 8.30am for the walk to the bus stop. Off to the market this morning in Torviscas. We managed to walk all the way round the market and not buy anything – that was a first. Walked from Torviscas to Las Americas – about 3 miles along the beach. Major waves today, even the surfers thought it was rough. Got a little wet. Had lunch at bar run by an English couple. Were talking to them about going the following day to get our Residencia and NIE from the Police Station. They recommended someone to help us do this. And the arrangement was made that he would meet us at the station at 9am tomorrow morning. Phoned Telefonica to try to get the phone and internet working. Phone now working, but internet is ... read more