TENERIFE

So, the world's dumbest reason for picking a vacation spot:  There is a Canary Island restraurant in San Antonio where all the rich people go.  I can't afford it so I decided to go to the source when I went on vacation.  Well, here it is!

This was the view from our apartment's master bedroom balcony.  The pool is just down below.  There is a little pool side burger hut there too.  We had our first Canary Island meal there and we both had the cheese burger and fries.

This was the view from the living room of our apartement.  The apartment was two stories with two bedrooms and two complete baths.  I belive that it had a greater square footage than my apartment.  It was cheaper too.

The beach scenes.   We were at Playa de los Christianos and that connects to Playa de las Americanos. There are a lot of references in the Canary Islands that seem like they are American but they are not.  The Canary Islands became a province of Spain in 1492 when Columbus used it as a port to set off to the Americas. His girlfriend lived in Tenerife.   The islands themselves have so many English visitors that it seems like a sunny little version of England.