| Towards the end of our holiday we walked into Los Christianos/Las Americas (not sure where the dividing line is) and passed the Hard Rock café. The building is quite magnificent and is taken out of the Las Vegas mould. |
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| Nearby pedestrian area | Dodgy sandwiches |
| A trip into the hills and down to the coast |
Costa Adeje beach
Beach sculptures – quite spectacular
| Playa San Juan harbour |
Gran Melia Palacio De Isora hotel at Alcala – very posh
Los Christianos beach
Los Christianos harbour the Fred Olson express is just departing for La Gomera
| Playa la Camison Arona |
| Watching all this surfing makes me thirsty |
| I’ve got the hang of this now! | Ooops, no I haven’t |
| El Paraiso on the west coast – very colourful |
| Our bungalow – downstairs - was very well appointed. It had most things including WiFi |
| Upstairs was the bedroom and shower room with a small balcony for washing machine and drying rack. |
| We booked this bungalow through ‘Airbnb’ which I had only just heard about in the last year. All properties on Airbnb are rented out by the owners. Our owner was Elena who is Russian and as it turned out doesn’t speak English, but her husband does. This led to some interesting exchanges since she was using an online translator. I was also using one to read some of the reviews of her properties (she has a few). The property was exactly as described and was in a very good position for all amenities. At the end of our stay Airbnb invites you to write a review, which we did. Elena also writes a review about us which you can see below. I think that online translator has been at work again. |
| ‘Stuart and Sue are remarkable couple of elderly people. Thus they are very vigorous cheerful people. They were pleasant to me. Have good sense of humour. Patient, not whimsical guests. I will meet Stuart and Sue with pleasure in the future.’ Hmm – not sure about the ‘elderly’, does she really mean us? |
A couple of wall plaques seen on the outside of houses
A stroll in Costa Adeje on our last evening
Oldie photo – Tenerife 2004
| Thousand year old Dragon Tree: ‘Legends say that when dragons die they become dragon trees, and it is obvious why this living fossil is one of the symbols of the Canary Islands, and maybe even the greatest treasure of Canarian flora. When one looks at its peculiar shape, it is also not surprising that the tree was considered a divine tree by the early inhabitants of the islands.’ |
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