Return to London

A taxi collected me at 9.00 for the 10 minute ride to the airport near Santa Cruz. The departure lounge was fairly basic. The Binter Canarias flight in an ATR turbo-prop left on time at 10.25 for the 30 minute flight to Tenerife Sur Airport. Tiede could be seen clearly.
I was able to bag-drop early and proceed to the departure lounge was very large and busy with flights to many European destinations and separate sections for Jet2 and easyJet.
For lunch, I had my final apple pie plus a baguette with Iberian ham.
I went through the All Other Nationalities rather than EU Nationals for the first time since Brexit at the Border Control. desk.
The easyJet flight left on time at 14.55 for the 4 hour flight to Gatwick. I got through the procedures quickly and bought a train ticket to Victoria. It was bitterly cold standing on the platform, the temperature being only 5 degrees compared to the 20 degrees in Tenerife.
I had a snack at Victoria Station on the way to Westminster Station, arriving home at 21.00, 5 weeks after leaving for a great holiday.
Putting on my boots, taking the walking pole, buying a picnic lunch and hiking on most days had become a habit.
I did 21 organised hikes with Explore and, in La Palma, with other groups; two 5km walks plus other walks around Golf Sur and El Medano. In total, I walked about 300km. and probably took 500,000 steps.
I would miss the fresh fruits at breakfast; mango, kiwi, melon, papaya, orange and pear. I'd eaten lots of fish at dinner, especially cod.
Most 3-course dinners with wine or beer plus service had cost around 40 Euro,, in the high 30s in terms of Pounds. When with the groups and often having only one or two courses, the cost had been 20-25 Euro. There had been no problems using the contactless Travelex card.
The weather had been great with only one drizzly day plus a few cloudy days, especially in La Palma. It had never rained whilst hiking.Læs mere