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Tenerife 2024. Walk from Playa Jaquita to Los Gigantes
Playa Jaquita is near Alçala, an authentic Spanish town 20 minutes drive from Playa Paraiso. You can walk along the coast to Los Gigantes which is about a 10k hike there and back. The vibe around Playa Jaquita is an upmarket one. The promenade is flanked by a huge 5star resort and the women emerging…
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Tenerife 2024 – where are the bins?/Montana Pelada/ sunset on the strip
I have combined Thursday and Friday’s blogs as S and I have been very lazy and spent a lot of time by the pool. Great for us but swim, snooze, read,repeat doesn’t make for interesting reading. Talking about less interesting reading I am going to share with you a mystery. The mystery of the bins. …
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Tenerife 2024 – La Paraiso to Calleo Salvaje
We woke up to threatening skies and mist this morning. I can’t believe it, J and N disappear and take the sun with them! Unbelievable. Once it started thundering, lightning and raining, we decided to visit our beloved Superdino and also check out the other stores in the Rosa shopping centre. Not much of interest…
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Tenerife 2024- El Medano and Montana Roja
After a leisurely morning, it was off to pick up Mr and Mrs B and head off to El Medano. El Medano is famous for its windsurfing and kite surfing. It also has a big old lump nearby called the Montana Roja, formed “by successive explosions fruit of the violent vaporization of the sea waters”.…
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Tenerife 2024 – The art of photography/walk to La Caleta
Our apartment has been somewhat over glamourised by the artfully taken and out of date photos on Airbnb. As most of you already know, S and I are in the Booking.com camp when it comes to choosing our holiday accommodation for the very reasons we are experiencing now. The apartment is ok, but the beautiful,…
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Tenerife – Why?
Tenerife- land of black sand, winter sun and package holidays. Why are we here? Why not somewhere more far flung, more exotic, more suited to the independent traveller? That was the plan but grandchildren change things. Our 4 week holidays have been shrunk to under 2 weeks for the time being. This is our choice…
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Day 5 – Cabo de Gata. Chill day
At last my desire for a really chilled day came true. First up, long lie-in, coffee in bed followed by breakfast and more coffee. Then a mosey into town and a detailed inspection of the shops. Very stylish boho style is the vibe here. Sadly most of the clothing was not in my size but…
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Day 4 Cabo de Gata – El Friale
Last night we took a late evening stroll around San Jose. It looked very pretty all lit up. After the long Sunday lunch that the Spanish enjoy so much, many of the restaurants had shut up shop but a few remained open along the sea front. After a good night’s sleep, we decided to head off…
Middle-aged flash packers
The ramblings and wanderings of two middle-aged travellers up for adventure
- 2021 – There are no plans. Covid
- About
- Australia/Vietnam Revisited 2025
- Bulgaria – Roses and Trains 2025
- Cabo de Gata 2024
- Costa Rica 2015
- Escape to Italy 2017
- Going round in Circles – Circumnavigating Spain 2021
- Gran Canaria – The Isle of Dogs
- Greece – Pottering The Peloponnese 2021
- Into Africa – 2022
- Into Africa -November/December 2022
- Jordan Jaunts 2023
- Mini adventure in Northern Portugal – 2018
- Mission Triglav – Slovenia, Italy, France 2017
- My blog
- Myanmar and Thailand 2019
- Oman 2019
- Oz Odyssey – Australia, Fiji,Hawaii 2016
- Panama 2023
- Return of the Road Warriors – Europe revisited 2019 Liechenstein, Switzerland, Italy, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Germany
- Road Trip to Anywhere – France, Italy, ? 2022
- Roaming the Rhodope – Bulgaria
- Sicily wanderings – on the volcano trail
- Tea, Trains and Temples – A journey around Sri Lanka 2017
- Tenerife 2024
- The Grand Tour – Driving from UK to Turkey and back again 2015
- The Hills are Alive – Austria road trip September 2025
- The Silk Road – Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan 2019
- Turkey – 2020
- Wainwrights Lake District UK part 2 2022 March
- Walking the Wainwrights part 1 – Lake District UK 2021
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