A full packed day of Tenerife action again today, with a morning in the surf and then finishing with some excellent climbing! The waves at Playa las Americas were much bigger than we’d expected. Eventually we realised that they measure the wave height here in meters not feet, so what we thought would be a Read more

An amazing day of trad climbing in a lost world style valley! With no other climbers around and hidden in a remote feeling area, we felt like explorers in Jurassic Park. But first, we tested out the waters by the house with a little early morning swimming.  Despite appearances suggesting otherwise, it was certainly cold Read more

There was a Christmas Tree Cactus at the farm near today’s climbing venue!  We started straight out of bed with a dip in the swimming pool this morning. It was pretty nippy in there to be honest, but seeing how we never normally have the chance to do such things, we thought we should take Read more

And onto the sun kissed Tenerife rock of the gorge at Arico Arriba! It was a bit of a mission at first locating the right gorge, but after a few wrong turns and some broken and bumpy Tarmac roads, we found where we were supposed to be. The landscape is quite barren, with a lot Read more

What a haze of a day. Boxing Day passed by quickly this year! There was a cool view of Santa Cruz from the glass elevator on the side of our hotel in the morning. I like arriving into places in the dark as the next morning, you are never quite sure what it will look Read more

Another Happy Christmas on the move… Last year we were celebrating somewhere over the Atlantic, this time, after a Christmas breakfast at The Fort, we enjoyed our turkey and cranberry on the flight down the coast of Africa to the Canary Isles. Heathrow was as quiet as you might expect and all the BA workers Read more