(No)Sunshine Break in Tenerife

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March 17, 2026
(No)Sunshine Break in Tenerife
Jetting off to the Sunshine 🛫
March 17 in England ⋅ ☁️ 10 °C
Early'ish start with a taxi 🚕 pick up at 05:45 in the morning. Less than 2 hours later we have dropped our bags 🎒 off cleared passport control and sat in the restaurant San Carlo waiting for our breakfast. By 9:00 we are at the departures gate waiting for our Airbus A321 Jet2 flight ✈️ to Tenerife. 10:17 and the wheels 🛞 are up and we are on our way..... 14:26 and we have our 1st glimpse of Tenerife and Mount Teide looking out over the clouds ⛅️. 15:39 we have cleared immigration, have our bags and waiting in the car park for our bus to turn up and transfer us to our hotel in Costa Adje. 25 minutes later we are finally on our way for an interesting transfer to our hotel stopping off at numerous hotels on the way where on one occasion no-one got off!!!
Driving through the various resorts of Playa Los Cristianos, Playa de Las Americas and finally into Costa Adeje we came across numerous Irish bars all full of people dresses in green celebrating March 17th and St. Patrick's Day. Virtually 12 hours after leaving home we are entering our bedroom within it's own private corridor!! After unpacking we headed across the road to a restaurant called Amanda's for a pizza 🍕 and a beer 🍺 and watch a bit of football along with the resident cabaret act!!Read more
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On Alert but Getting Our Bearings
March 18 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
Woke up this morning to the headlines that from today, Tenerife is on high alert waiting for the anticipated visit from Storm Therese. With recommendations from the authorities to stay indoors during periods of Strong Winds; 100 km/hour and Heavy Rain. But hey the sun is shining through small gaps in the clouds so this intrepid penguin 🐧 and his mate decided to venture out while the weather allowed. We walked 🚶‍♀️ first up the coast to Playa del Duque where we sat watching 👀 and listening to the waves crashing against the rocky shoreline whilst we bathed for a few minutes in glorious sunshine 🌞. Thinking here we are in the nice warm sun wearing tee-shirts and jeans 👖 let's go back to the hotel 🏨 and change into shorts. We arrived back just before the black clouds, so after some light refreshments we decided to venture out in the opposite direction towards Playa de Las Americas and the H10 hotel Conquistador where my mum loved to stay when she holidayed here in Tenerife. We thought it would be nice to visit and have a drink in its bar in memory of my mum ✋️ but the doorman wouldn't let us in as it is a hotel that only welcomes guests that are staying there!! So we walked across the road and went clothes shopping 🛍. Enjoying a nice leisurely stroll home when the rain started and we upped our pace so that when we reached the hotel 🏨 we weren't too drenched. After a little rest along with a coffee ☕️ etc we walked through 100 yards to the corner of the street to the Restaurant Hawai where we both settled for the Grilled fish; Salmon for Jayne and Sea Bass for me, both with vegetables and Canarian potatoes 🥔 😋.Read more
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Adeje
March 19 in Spain ⋅ 🌧 14 °C
Woke up this morning and looked out of the window 🪟 and thought I was back in England. It was very windy with torrential rain - then I said to myself don't be stupid Keith 🤔 ......... the weather in England is far better than this!!!!
So, after a more than leisurely breakfast we headed up to the "My Favourite Club" for a decent'ish cup of coffee ☕️ or 3 where we chatted with a nice similar aged couple, of football following Welsh fans from Cardiff. Hopefully they will be a little despondent on Saturday afternoon after Cardiff City have been beaten by the mighty Tangerines 🍊 from Blackpool 🙏🙏🤞😄⚽️
Booked our free 1 hour session in the hotel spa for this afternoon, but we will happily forego it if the sun decides to come and visit us 😀 🤞
The Spa wasn't great tepid water in the pool, and packed Sauna and a steam room we didn't venture in we only stayed 20 minutes!!
Fortunately the weather dried up .... well it stopped raining and we decided to walk out the hotel and see where looked promising for our evening meal. Looking first a nice cafe/bar we stopped off at the Dreams Hotel Jardin Tropical where we settled for a lovely relaxing drink in lovely 5 star surroundings. Some 90 minutes later we left stopping off at Harley's an American Diner for something to eat; ribs for me and Chicken 🐔 for Jayne, before heading back to our hotel 🏨, and arriving before the wind and rain!!Read more
Traveler Glad you had some nice "moments " on you Spanish holiday. Regardless of the spotty weather, it beats being at home! 😄. No cooking, cleaning, and looking at the same old scenery. Glad you were able to get away! 👌❤️
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(No)Sunshine Break in Tenerife
The rain ☔️☔️ in Spain doesn't stay....
March 20 in Spain ⋅ 🌧 18 °C
.......... mainly on the plain ........ it's flaming every where.

So what to do when it's raining... answer go shopping 🛍 . After breakfast we set off on a walk with no real destination in mind and as the clouds slowly went darker we decided to carry on and continue the 30 minute walk to the Siam Mall on the outskirts of Adeje. Unfortunately, unlike our Shopping Malls this one is open air with some covering. As the advert says "Designed to take advantage of Tenerife's year-round great weather, (🤣🤣☔️🌀🌬🌫☔️) SIAM MALL is filled with green areas, open plazas, and fountains to enhance the relaxed atmosphere." The mall’s Thai-inspired theme includes authentic statues and decorations crafted in Thailand.
Although, in our humble opinion some of the fashion items were more of a niche market unless ripped and stained trousers 👖 were your idea of a must have fashion item!!
Later that day we set off to look for a recommended restaurant, we found it with more than a little difficulty as it was only small and located down what can only be described as an alleyway. Unfortunately, as we hadn't booked the only available seating was outside BUT tha waiter assured us it wasn't going to rain. Not only did it not rain we also enjoyed our Tapas in (or outside) a restaurant we wouldn't have looked twice at to be honest.Read more
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When Saturday Comes ⚽️
March 21 in Spain ⋅ 🌧 17 °C
At breakfast this morning we were treated to a torrential downpour, which also found numerous gaps and holes 🕳 in the structure of the hotel 🏨. This meant a number of areas were cordoned off with towels, buckets 🪣 and large sponges 🧽 lying around trying to soak the water up!!. Then just as quickly as the downpour started, it stopped and the sun came out. Venturing out one of thevfirst things we saw were cows 🐄 with umbrellas 🌂...... I kid you not!!
We carried on walking 🚶‍♀️ 🚶‍♂️ to Playa de Fanabe where the waves continued to pound along the coast, before stopping for a lovely coffee ☕️ at a more upmarket shopping centre Plaza del Duque and all it's Designer Shop's. Fortunately, we couldn't stop long as Blackpool were playing Cardiff City in a 12:30 kick off football match so we HAD to make our way back to the hotel. As look would have it, the sun came out again as the football ⚽️ started making it very hard to see 👀 the game on my phone 📲 screen. No matter where I sat all I could see was a dark screen so I had to go inside ..... on the nicest day yet of our holiday!!Read more
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Sunday Stroll
March 22 in Spain ⋅ 🌧 17 °C
After breakfast and during a break in the rain 🌧 showers, we decided to head back up towards the quieter and nicer part of Adeje that we had found yesterday, as there was no rain forecast until later in the day. As the sun was out we kept stopping to bask in the sunshine 🌞 and listen to the waves 🌊 crashing against the shore. We stumbled across a lovely little hidey-hole with a couple of shops, a cafe, restaurant and a quiet courtyard. After sheltering from a sudden downpour under a palm 🌴 tree we carried on walking 🚶‍♂️🚶‍♀️ to another little corner shopping centre that we had walked past whilst the sun was shining. This proved to be an expensive stop as Jayne bought a dress 👗 I bought a shirt 👕 and ordered another one that would arrive tomorrow 🛍. As the sun was out once again we made our way back to the hotel to grab a few precious sunrays before we headed out for our dinner 🍽 reservation.
We arrived earlier than our allocated time but were still shown to our table within the Restaurant Amalfi. Despite not able to get a table along the side with a lovely view we ordered drinks and Bruschetta Capri (tomato, mozzarella, ham & mushrooms). After devouring our starter, the main courses arrived; Penne Corleone (mushrooms, fillet steak in a red wine sauce) for me, whilst Jayne went for the Tagliatellie. As the sun went down we both enjoyed a delicious Irish Coffee before leaving along with the sun.Read more
Traveler You both are looking fabulous 👌
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Just another (weather) manic Monday
March 23 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
Another cool and cloudy ⛅️ day, this morning our post breakfast walk we decided to head down towards the beach ⛱️ and the marina; an area we haven't previously explored ...... not that there was a lot to see apart from tourists heading out on boat trips.
Later, we headed back up to the La Calleta area of Adeje to see if my shirt had arrived. But before that we stopped off for a coffee which then extended into a beer 🍺, and cheese toastie with chips 🍟 😋 😋. Arriving back at the hotel we paid the deposit for a couple of pool towels; 1st time of the holiday and we grabbed a couple of vacant sunbeds before the sun went in and the temperature went down 🌡and we have another downpour 🌧Read more
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Packed and Homeward Bound 🇬🇧
March 24 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
We woke up to sunshine this morning which can only mean we are going home today!! After a final lazy breakfast we packed our last few items and locked the cases. We went for a final walk discussing how few clothes we had worn after living in jeans 👖 and shirts 👕 the whole week. Honestly we would have worn more clothes on a naturist holiday 🍃 🤔🤣. We traded our towels in for tokens in order to get our €20 deposit back. As 12 o'clock and check out time approached we stored our suitcases 🧳 🧳 and headed into the My Favourite Club lounge and we watched other holidaymakers packing up their towels and books before .... yes! Once again the heavens opened 🌧 🌦 🌂
Just an journey later we were stood outside on the wet pavement waiting for the 🚌 to take us back to the airport 🛫
13:10 we are sat on the bus and after a couple of more pick-ups we are on our way to the airport, arriving 50 minutes later. We had heard about long delays at Tenerife's airport but fortunately these delays had been sorted and just 15 minutes later we were sat drinking coffee and eating a sandwich 🥪 in the departures lounge. By 3pm we had joined the queue to go through passport control and where a jobs worth Spanish "lady" wearing a uniform decided to shout at me for taking a photograph and pointed out the small no photo sign on the white column about 15 yards away. I wish I'd brought my binoculars or a telescope 🔭 with me... I might have seen 👀 it 🤔 😳 then!! Just as soon as we had cleared passport control we went to the departures gate onto the bus 🚌 and by 16:20 we were sat on the aircraft. 40 minutes later we were rolling back and taxiing to the queue for take off. 5 minutes later we were up and away heading home 🏡 arriving in Manchester at 21:35. Bags collected and waiting for our taxi 🚕 to arrive at the pick up spot by 22:40, arriving home 10 minutes before midnight 😴Read more
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Trip end
March 24, 2026