Ah! The joy of my first café cortado and bocadillo de jamón serrano, on touch-down at Tenerife South airport
That is the face of a happy jamón-eater
The nighttime view of Puerto de la Cruz from our apartment
Bernhard & I start our exploration of the island in our hire car
Looking south from Punta de Teno
The boat was crying out to be photographed
Masca, Tenerife's most picturesque village
The road up from Masca towards Santiago del Teide
Clouds fall like a river over the mountain ridge
Looking down onto Garachico
A strangely 2D church in Garachico
A very old (but not THE very old) dragon tree in Icod
Pretty
Breakfast on our balcony
Goats on Tenerife also appear to use public transport...
Our first unimpeded view of the Teide volcano, Spain's highest mountain
The sea of clouds that we had just driven up through from Puerto de la Cruz
Very tame Teide lizards
Lunar landscape
Bizarre formations
The "tejinaste", a strange tall flower indigenous to Tenerife
A tejinaste in bloom - still just about
Our car
Totally fake looking trees in front of Teide
A bare landscape
The beach at Alcalá, on the west coast
A little synchronised swimming routine I was working on
The main church in Puerto de la Cruz
A typical inner courtyard in La Laguna
Weirdy rooftop-dwelling succulents in La Laguna
David, our very friendly city guide
Old meets new: chandelier with energy-saving bulbs
The bell tower, from which we had a great view over town
We clamber up
Whole baby squids - just like the old days in Santander!
Looking back towards La Laguna on our way north
The laurel forests of Tenerife's northeast
More astounding clouds falling into the dry valley
We take a breather on our drive over to the north coast
The north coast at Benijo
The black beach at Benijo
And it really is black!
Whose idea was it to cut such inappropriate holes in this statue at Puerto de la Cruz?
Give me more sun!
Bernhard does his Stan Laurel impression
The port at the heart of Puerto de la Cruz
I don't think so!
Amusing street art
The sun sets
The sun sets some more
Pastel shades in Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Hideous street art in Santa Cruz
Huge colourful trees
A dry river bed, a huge bank of cloud: Tenerife
Tile work a bit like Gaudì's Parc Güell
Peter & Rainer take a quick breather
Walking through the old Botanical Garden in Santa Cruz
Ah! Hams!
Fabulous tapas: insanely flavoursome chorizo and manchego
Stepping back in time
Breaded sardines
The new auditorium
The auditorium again
And again
Crazy, isn't it?
Blue blue seas
Strangely pleasing arty breakwaters
The auditorium's got a bum!
Reflections
Las Teresitas beach, made with sand brought from the Sahara
A curtain of sunlight breaks through
Steep parking in La Orotava
The swivel door to the monastery hospital where you could abandon your baby. A win-win: no baby to feed, and lots of future monks!
The House of Balconies in La Orotava
A cool representation of vulcanism in tiles
The first church we could actually get into on Tenerife
Church with garden
Banany! My baby! (I almost bought it!)
More crazy clouds
Another fine cortado
Punta Brava beach, just west of Puerto de la Cruz
Our apartment - yes, with fold-away beds!
Back up at the foot of Teide
Desert blooms & a busy bee
Very dark lava from the most recent eruption in the 18th century.
Pointy Teide
Even pointier rock fingers
The ubiquitous sauces of Tenerife: mojo rojo & mojo verde
And the fabulous "papas arrugadas", very salty boiled potatoes
You need plenty of this after those salty little fellers!
...at the end of the show, ladies & gentlemen!
