Month: March 2022

An appropriate title for our transition to BST, of which Tenerife shares. But the real reason for the choice of the title is reflecting on ‘The Kinsella’s in The Canaries’.

I’m not sure if I could accurately tell you the number of times I’ve previously been to one of the islands of Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote or La Palma, either with my parents, as parents, with Rachel’s family or just Rachel. I am now pleased to add La Gomera to that list but I am unlikely to return, not by motorcycle in any case.

Continue reading “Time Flies”

As I sat in the dining room of the hotel having breakfast, I couldn’t help but pick up on the piped music ‘All by myself’, and just rolled my eyes. As if that wasn’t enough the following song was by Nilsson “Without you’. OMG, I was starting to think I’d come to the Lonely Hearts Breakfast Club by mistake! But it didn’t bug me, my frame of mind was such that rather than upsetting me I just laughed it off.

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The ‘I’ve lost impetus to write more posts’ issue, was only obviously a temporary issue as I scribe again.

Something I meant to mention since I returned to Tenerife, and also possibly another reason I’ve been struggling to write of late, is people.

Like travel, my inspiration for the blog comes as much from people as it does places.

Continue reading “Smile and the world smiles back”