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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Tenerife (Spain)
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notes from an even smaller island
notes from an even smaller island (with apologies to Bill Bryson)
Because you can reach any point on this island with a 100km (62 mile) ride, it seems pretty pointless making a "ride report", so let me introduce you to the area immediately around my home. My doctor advised me to walk for my health's sake, so every day I have a walk of around 8km (5 miles?)......try to imagine, if you will, a warm breeze, carrying the scent of jasmine, bougainvillae, jacaranda - with the discordant clanging of the church bells in your ears ....This, then, is Sunday morning ...... where all the traffic roundabouts are landscaped, with fountains ...... ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() and everywhere you look are vineyards ...... ![]() ![]() ![]() ......and even more vineyards. ![]() Where churches dominate the landscape ...... ![]() ......along with thousands of religious grottos. ![]() This is where I turn around & go back home ..... ![]() passing the bougainvillaea covered walls ...... ![]() ......then looking down to the sea...... ![]() ......in an area where you don't go to the supermarket or liquor store for wine ...... ![]() ......and the old mixes with the new ...... ![]() One of the reasons I took my camera, today, is that it's Corpus Christi. Half of the streets in our village are closed off, while the people make carpets of flowers - to be trampled, later, by the religious procession. Imagine, now, the scents of pine and cedar, incence and grass - while the loudspeakers in the streets play religious chants, over & over again ..... ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Then home, for a quick shower, & onto the terrace, where my wife's laid out goat's cheese, olives, warm bread (straight out of the oven of the patisserie over the road) & a jug of good red wine. Finally, into my "office" to download the camera. ![]() Sounds idyllic? Ya gotta believe it!
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