Troon (or Tron if you use the Google keyboard), Royal Troon, golf, The Open, the beach and the South Beach sand dunes is an altogether different experience as you approach the depths of winter. The rain continues to pour down in Glasgow and we decided on a quick drive to Troon on the west coast, … Continue reading troon
(beyond 4) If I leave here tomorrowWould you still remember me?For I must be traveling on now‘Cause there’s too many places I’ve got to see Lynyrd Skynyrd, Free Bird tenerife - day 16 The alarm goes off but I lie till after seven. It's the airport run today - our airport run. Oh, I could … Continue reading leaving on a jet plane
(beyond 4) galletas (colloquial) (blow) (Caribbean) (Spain) a. crash Se pegaron una buena galleta con el coche.They had a bad car crash. b. slap ¡Qué galleta te vas a llevar! You're asking for a slap tenerife - day 15 - las galletas A bit late getting around to day 15. A twenty or twenty-five minute drive north … Continue reading crash, bang, wallop
(beyond 4) To start a zoo, you need at least two pandas, a grizzly and three polars. That's the bear minimum. So we can do the two pandas tenerife - day 14 So we have wheels again for the last part of this break. We picked the car up this morning. Would it be a … Continue reading another panda
(beyond 4) In mathematics, a curve (also called a curved line in older texts) is an object similar to a line, but that does not have to be straight. Wikipedia All very interesting, but for the purposes of this post, The Curve is the hill between Los Cristianos and Playa De Las Americas. tenerife - … Continue reading the curve
(beyond 4) Hehehe ... it is our symbol! She must surely be the most photographed cow in the world! It was all coincidence. Vicente Grimalt in one of his many trips around the world saw a show where there were more animals but fixed on the cow. So we bought a cow and put her … Continue reading the ALE-HOP question
(beyond 4) Hazy daysLazy waysYou get less done but moreOut of your daysCrazy daysLazy ways Song: 10cc Songwriters: Lol Creme / Eric Stewart tenerife - day 5 We didn't do much today. To be honest I think it's time to do nothing. We did take a stroll to the 'end' of Los Cristianos, until you … Continue reading lazy days
(beyond 4) In Las Americas, you can find the area known as The Golden Mile, which has many luxury brands who benefit from the low taxes in The Canaries to sell their products at cheaper prices than elsewhere. Among them, you’ll find Escada, Luxury Jewellery, Armani, Versace, Dolce e Gabbana and all the usual suspects. … Continue reading the golden mile
(beyond 4) If you were coming along here when it was half dark, you could easily think those piles of rock were giants. C S Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair) tenerife - day 4 - los gigantes We decided on a drive to Los Gigantes today. We've actually stayed here in the … Continue reading the giants
(beyond 4) Guns don’t kill people, people kill people, and monkeys do too. Eddie Izzard Monkey Park, Tenerife tenerife - day 3 This isn't usually our type of thing but we'd seen a video of the Monkey Park on The Knightstrider's YouTube channel and thought we'd give it a go. What a wonderful couple of … Continue reading monkey park
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