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London to Tenerife in the Canary Islands

This morning we flew from London Gatwick to Tenerife in the Canary Islands. The Canaries are a part of Spain. They are located off the northwest coast of Africa. The latitude is similar to the latitude of Florida.

Gatwick Airport
Gomera Island in the Canary Islands

The airport in Tenerife is right next to the ocean. We rented a car and drove to the Parador Cañadas del Teide. The Parador is at an altitude of about 7000 feet on the side of the the Volcano Teide in the middle of Las Cañadas Del Teide National Park. We explored a bit and then relaxed for the rest of the afternoon. We can see the volcano Teide from the window of our room.

Viewpoint on the road to Teide National Park
Teide Volcano
Enjoying our welcome drinks in the Parador bar.

The road from the airport to our Parador was very good but also very narrow and winding. We saw a lot of bicycles both going up and coming down the road.

Parador Cañadas del Teide.

The height of the Teide Volcano is more than 12,000 feet. It is the highest point in Spain. There is a cable car (teleferico) that would take us to within 500 meters of the top of Teide but it is very windy here today so the cable car is closed. I don’t think we’ll hike up!

Our room price includes dinner and breakfast. We celebrated our first dinner in Spain and first Parador of this trip with an excellent meal

Tuna and a salad
Steak
Date ice cream with raspberry sauce

London – Day 2

Neither of us slept very well last night but we still managed to get to the 20 Frenchchurch Street building by just after ten so that we could go up to the Skygarden without a reservation. What fantastic views!

The Tower of London and Tower Bridge.
The Skygarden

We had a great lunch at a pub near our hotel.

Steak and blue cheese pie.
Sausage Roll

Then we visited the Museum of London. They had exhibits from before the Romans, through the Angles and Saxons to the present day.

A model of an old London Theater

This evening we are staying in a micro room at a hotel In Gatwick Airport. Early tomorrow we head to the Canary Islands.

For those of you who are interested I have a YouTube channel where I post trip videos every few days. If you subscribe to the channel it will help me get my own domain name eventually. In the meantime this link will take you to the channel. I just posted my first video of this trip.