Tenerife

Apologies for the hiatus. Last week was half term here and my father kindly took us off to the sun for a week's holiday in Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands. The islands are Spanish speaking but lie well south of Spain parallel with the Sahara. We eight flew from Gatwick with XL and stayed in the Bahia Flamingo Hotel, Puerto Santiago, not far from Los Gigantes. We had decent weather until the last couple of days and a real relaxing time.

Sunday was something of a disaster. We set off in good time for a fellowship in Los Christianos but en route someone got on who believed her purse had been stolen. The driver was instructed to wait for the police but people slowly began to drift off. In the end we did nothing for over an hour and so were unable to attend. We had our own meeting in the evening. Lots of lessons there.

We enjoyed a trip later in the week seeing pilot whales and dolphins off the coast. My youngest son celebrated his seventh birthday and chose to go to the Jungle Park zoo to celebrate. That was good too. We were sorry not to be able to do more exploring or to see the less touristy north of the island. Perhaps another time.