Tenerife - The North is beautiful, avoid the South!

We spent four days in the North of Tenerife, staying with Sam's uncle in his beautiful little cottage up the side of mount Teide. Having been to Tenerife once when I was 16 for an all inclusive stay at Playa de las Americas for a couple of hundred quid, my expectations were pretty low. However, the North of Tenerife is greener, prettier, less developed and much more Spanish than the South and it changed my view of the island. We spent a day driving up to mount Teide (which is over 3,700m high), to get a cable car to the peak to see views across the whole island. The rest of the time was spent catching up with Sam's family and trying out my pigeon Spanish, which mostly involved nodding a lot, hand signals and saying 'muchas gracias por todo' about 20 times a day.

A few pictures from the top of mount Teide, the view from the finca, the family and a beautiful village called Masca. Next challenge - find a home...