Monday, 15 July 2013

Post card from Tenerife 1992

 

Rock formation in Tenerife
 

Tenerife off the coast of Africa is a province of Spain and it is the most popular Island of the seven Canary Islands for summer holidays for British and the rest of Europe. Most holiday makers go to Tenerife because it is cheap with blue sky, white sandy beaches , Spanish food and Spanish wine, may be? A lot of European retire there too. My partner and I went to meet up with one retired couple who lived in the city of Santa Cruz.


 
We were pleasantly surprised to see some of the Islands’ less known landscapes.  If we did not want our body on black volcanic sandy beaches there were artificial white beaches made from the sand imported, all the way from Sahara desert.



 Driving off the beaten track we could see the volcanic eruption had caused the landscape to look like something out of space, moon surface?

 

 
  Driving to wards the snow capped mountain, we had to be very brave to drive up the steep hill sides with numerous hair pin bends; my partner who was afraid of heights had to give up driving for a rest, scary times in sunny Tenerife.

Of course there were lots of happy times with our friends and the Spanish food and the Spanish wine and the Spanish entertainment on the streets of Santa Cruz.  

 


 

 

 

 



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