Day 1 - Tenerife

So it's another trip for Kamal and I, this time to Tenerife.

We've been awake for two days straight now as I write this and getting here wasn't quite as easy as we'd hoped. We had both convinced ourselves that our bus to Gatwick left London Victoria at 3:30, turns out it was 2:30 and we missed it. After begging with the driver we got on the 3:30 bus, pulling into gatwick south at 4:50, leaving us 30mins til our gate closed. We flew through check in and security though and in fifteen mins we'd made it to our gate in record time. Thank god! 

After a 4hr flight on a small aircraft I thought everyone would be in a bad mood but actually, I've never been on a nicer flight, with everyone in the holiday spirit long before landing - well apart from the boy in front who seemed to speak to the flight attendants with one word and one word only - BEER - those dulcet tones must do a lot for our reputation abroad!

We picked up our car from the airport and after a few hair-raising moments centimetres too close to the edge of the narrow Tarmac, we made it to our apartment! And we love it. We have our own balcony, living room, kitchen, bedroom and bathroom and access to lots of fun stuff at the resort too.

After dropping our bags we trekked along the seafront jumping across the rocks up and down cliffs and a tiny yappy dog that clearly thought he owned the place. We conquered the final slope to find my first ever black sand beach! I saw a nest of tiny baby pigeons, some creepy black crabs and some adorable little lizards! Like these:

I could steal them!

After burying each other in the black sand...

(of course we only have a white beach towel - brilliant) and happily drowning in the cool and powerful waters, we headed to the roof terrace at the hotel to drink beer and take in the views.

Then it was across town to a recommended local tapas bar where we had potato salad, fried chicken and goats meat (yeh I'm not a fan of that one). Amazingly we had three massive courses and two beers and it cost us only 25€.

Most undesirable experience of the trip so far was the accidental discovery of the public toilets - I won't say much but if you don't like cockroaches, don't even think about it! Needless to say I held it in!

To work off the dinner, we played a couple of games of pool, watched the football and now 27hrs after we should have gone to bed, we are!