So lets go back to 22 Dec 2007
AM of 22 Dec 2007 - I dont really get excited about going on holiday, but I have to admit to looking forward to 2-weeks in the sun in Tenerife. Liz and myself flew out to Tenerife from Glasgow. The resort we had arranged to stay at was in the Golf Del Sur. As I was about to discover, resort is the wrong description for this dump as the best way to describe it is as a number of isolated restuarants and bars. There was a small wind-swept central area - not overlooking the sea - where each restaurant and bar was owned by non-Scottish British people and everywhere you went you could enjoy a hearty all day breakfast. Even the odd Spanish restuarant you could find had succumbed to providing a hearty all day breakfast as their speciality.
So the scene is set: sun, sea and all day breakfasts. Add into the mix a building site view from our apartment and a cockroach infestation in our apartment and you can see the holiday spiralling downhill fast on day 2 as we moved apartments.
Day 3 - Christmas Day - we wandered round the dump and took a chance on a Spanish Restuarant for Christmas dinner. Wrong move: rubber band calimares and semi raw swordfish. I complained to the waiter and he said it was Japanese style.
Day 4 - in an attempt to get out of the rut we went to Los Christianos. A 40-50 Euro round trip taxi fare. We found a half decent restuarant which proceeded to then charge us 27 Euros for an 18 Euro bottle of wine. Another complaint and again no satisfaction.
Day 5 - "Liz, if this does not improve, I want to go home". We then proceeded to sit down in an eatery located in the downmarket end of the dump. It is hard to believe that the dump had a downmarket end. Another argument with another waiter over the standard of cleanliness - look closely at how dirty the bottle is! Enough was enough. We wandered up the road, found an internet connection and booked a flight home for the next day. £60 single each and cheap at the price.
Day 6 - Escape from all day breakfasts with a flight back to sanity.
So the scene is set: sun, sea and all day breakfasts. Add into the mix a building site view from our apartment and a cockroach infestation in our apartment and you can see the holiday spiralling downhill fast on day 2 as we moved apartments.
Day 3 - Christmas Day - we wandered round the dump and took a chance on a Spanish Restuarant for Christmas dinner. Wrong move: rubber band calimares and semi raw swordfish. I complained to the waiter and he said it was Japanese style.
Day 4 - in an attempt to get out of the rut we went to Los Christianos. A 40-50 Euro round trip taxi fare. We found a half decent restuarant which proceeded to then charge us 27 Euros for an 18 Euro bottle of wine. Another complaint and again no satisfaction.
Day 5 - "Liz, if this does not improve, I want to go home". We then proceeded to sit down in an eatery located in the downmarket end of the dump. It is hard to believe that the dump had a downmarket end. Another argument with another waiter over the standard of cleanliness - look closely at how dirty the bottle is! Enough was enough. We wandered up the road, found an internet connection and booked a flight home for the next day. £60 single each and cheap at the price.
Day 6 - Escape from all day breakfasts with a flight back to sanity.
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