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Escaping the British winter if only for a short time is always part of our plan!

We had never visited Tenerife before so the lure of sun and good golf brought us to the Abama Resort in Tenerife

In fact the weather was perfect for golf and warm enough to enjoy time lazing by the pools.

We even managed some touring about on Tenerife to get a feel for some of the island and it’s scenery.

The “moon ” like terrain around the Mount Teide

Tenerife is dominated by the  Volcano, Mount Teide although there hasn’t been a significant eruption for over a  hundred years.

Tenerife is very mountainous and to get to the North of the island we had to go over a 3800 foot pass with its very, very windy roads. The cliffs at Los Gigantes are spectacular and big as their name suggests and they sweep down to the sea from the mountain range that we travelled over to go to Garachico and the North.

The view of a part of coast in the North Western part of Tenerife

The bay at Garachico. There are natural sea swimming pools there created by eruptions of the Volcanoes.

In amongst the golf and relaxation there was time to paint a  few watercolours in the sketch book which is now my favourite medium when travelling. A quick pen and ink sketch followed by some watercolour washes gives me a good record of a place or landscape. Of course the plan is to paint larger watercolours at home. However the sketches work pretty well for the blog.

The Abama golf course is also very hilly and challenging with  unforgiving greensand very fast greens to make it even harder. Luckily eveybody uses a buggy as walking the course would tire a mountain goat!.

The Restaurant “Candelaria” in Garachico

Our trip to the north and especially the little town of Garachico yielded a very pleasant lunch experience in a little family restaurant called “Candelaria” in Garachico. Their home made bread and enjoyable menu and owners made the lunch great.   If you are ever there do go and find it and try it, it was really nice. It is at the back of the town about 100 metres from the main Square

Our time in Tenerife was brief but enjoyable and we did find the sun!

Happy travelling

Brian

In the south of the Island of Tenerife, and quite near the airport, is the pretty fishing village of Los Abrigos