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Tenerife...

Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2019 7:40 pm
by Bosscat
Seeing as UTC seems to be the go-to for advice... :D

We will be on Tenerife from a cruise in October ... and have booked a trip up Mt Teide in the cable car on a day trip ... anyone been there done that got the tee shirt etc ... and if so how was it :D

Re: Tenerife...

Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2019 7:43 pm
by cbx750
Cold when in the shade or if windy.

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Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2019 7:50 pm
by bfcjg
Went up Mount Teide a few years ago snow covered peak in middle of summer. Cable car pricey but really worth it. For the really keen walker you can book a guide tour to the top but places are limited and you cannot just walk up to the peak as it is really restricted access. The coach journey up was also fascinating seeing the different things that grow at different levels etc. Bring a jacket and it does make you breath quite deeply.

Re: Tenerife...

Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2019 7:51 pm
by cbx750
Take a bag of crisps and watch it expand as the air gets thinner.

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Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2019 8:12 pm
by nighty
i spend a week every month in tenerife away from the holiday resorts ...you will sail into santa cruz the capital ,40 miles away from the holiday resorts..a lovely city ...check if cd tenerife are at home , i always go and watch them if they are , gates of 12k great atmosphere tickets a tenner or so..the city itself if lovely especially at night , also during the day they have a great communal swimming pool , cost 4quid a day and massive, also las territas white beach were locals go ,all in santa cruz and all free plenty of bars along it...teide is approz 45 mins up , its warm up there in summer no snow as somebody claimed , only get snow nov till feb.....peurto santa cruz is an old colonial resort 30 mins away from santa cruz,well worth a trip
enjoy

Re: Tenerife...

Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2019 8:14 pm
by nighty
sorry peurto del la cruz not santa cruz......

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Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2019 8:18 pm
by Bosscat
nighty wrote:i spend a week every month in tenerife away from the holiday resorts ... well worth a trip
enjoy
Just there for the day m8 and the Mt Teide Cable Car trip was on offer so booked it .....

Re: Tenerife...

Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2019 8:34 pm
by Steve1956
Went to Gran Canaria once and there was a cowboy town,they had gunfights and run cattle through the town,it was pretty shite

Re: Tenerife...

Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2019 8:41 pm
by box_of_frogs
Steve1956 wrote:Went to Gran Canaria once and there was a cowboy town,they had gunfights and run cattle through the town,it was pretty shite
How helpful for someone going to Tenerife! :lol:

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Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2019 8:51 pm
by EarbyClaret
Went up Mt Teide by coach in January back in the 1990s - spectacular as the caps were covered in snow. Drove through the cloud and nothing but brilliant sunshine despite being properly cold. The guide told us Planet of the Apes and Clash of the Titans filmed there because of the lunar landscape although there seems to be some doubt about that - believable all the same!

Hope you enjoy it - it sticks vividly in my mind all these years later - so it must have been decent :-)

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Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2019 8:51 pm
by Steve1956
box_of_frogs wrote:How helpful for someone going to Tenerife! :lol:
I'm just warning him he might go there next year :?

Re: Tenerife...

Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2019 9:03 pm
by Bosscat
Steve1956 wrote:I'm just warning him he might go there next year :?
You tit :lol: although we will be calling at GC on the cruise ....
We have been several times to Gran Can on package holidays but never went to the wild west town though :lol: :lol: will leave that to cowboys like you Steve ;)

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Re: Tenerife...

Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2019 9:04 pm
by Bosscat
EarbyClaret wrote:Went up Mt Teide by coach in January back in the 1990s - spectacular as the caps were covered in snow. Drove through the cloud and nothing but brilliant sunshine despite being properly cold. The guide told us Planet of the Apes and Clash of the Titans filmed there because of the lunar landscape although there seems to be some doubt about that - believable all the same!

Hope you enjoy it - it sticks vividly in my mind all these years later - so it must have been decent :-)
Think they filmed some there and also on Lanzarote

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Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2019 9:09 pm
by Steve1956
Bosscat wrote:You tit :lol: although we will be calling at GC on the cruise ....
We have been several times to Gran Can on package holidays but never went to the wild west town though :lol: :lol: will leave that to cowboys like you Steve ;)

:lol: :lol: :lol:
Only went once,those big fellas selling fake Rolex's ....scared the shite outta me :lol:

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Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2019 9:13 pm
by cricketfieldclarets
Yes cold up there. And the cable cars a steep ride after a long winding road. Tbh dont remember much else about it. Sure we stopped at some nice villages on eay up and down.

Canaries in general are lovely.

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Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2019 9:15 pm
by Steve1956
cricketfieldclarets wrote:Yes cold up there. And the cable cars a steep ride after a long winding road. Tbh dont remember much else about it. Sure we stopped at some nice villages on eay up and down.

Canaries in general are lovely.
I prefer Budgies.

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Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2019 9:16 pm
by cricketfieldclarets
Steve1956 wrote:Went to Gran Canaria once and there was a cowboy town,they had gunfights and run cattle through the town,it was pretty shite
Sioux city. First time i ever got ******. I was only 16 went with my mate. It was free drink anyway. But the pump broke and they couldnt stop pouring pints. So i thought i had to drink at same pace.

Drank myself unconscious. Was a quick recovery in those days. I have a hangover of 3 pints these days.

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Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2019 9:21 pm
by Steve1956
cricketfieldclarets wrote:Sioux city. First time i ever got ******. I was only 16 went with my mate. It was free drink anyway. But the pump broke and they couldnt stop pouring pints. So i thought i had to drink at same pace.

Drank myself unconscious. Was a quick recovery in those days. I have a hangover of 3 pints these days.
The coach excursions on Gran Canaria were like going on the big one at Blackpool,and the coaches were being driven by maniacs, s bends on a mountain track at 70 mile an hour,I don't know how I survived that holiday...Cowboys & Indians big black fellas selling fake Rolex and Kamikazee coach drivers

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Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2019 9:23 pm
by Bosscat
Steve1956 wrote:I prefer Budgies.
Yeah we heard you were a sight down by the pool in your Speedo Budgie Smugglers Steve :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Re: Tenerife...

Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2019 9:24 pm
by Steve1956
Bosscat wrote:Yeah we heard you were a sight down by the pool in your Speedo Budgie Smugglers Steve :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Is that your cruise ship in the background! .?

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Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2019 9:27 pm
by Bosscat
:lol:
Steve1956 wrote:Is that your cruise ship in the background! .?
:lol:

Re: Tenerife...

Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2019 9:27 pm
by cricketfieldclarets
Steve1956 wrote:I prefer Budgies.
:lol:

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Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2019 9:29 pm
by cricketfieldclarets
Steve1956 wrote:The coach excursions on Gran Canaria were like going on the big one at Blackpool,and the coaches were being driven by maniacs, s bends on a mountain track at 70 mile an hour,I don't know how I survived that holiday...Cowboys & Indians big black fellas selling fake Rolex and Kamikazee coach drivers
:shock: :shock: :lol:

Re: Tenerife...

Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2019 11:33 pm
by Local cricketer
Cant beat Veronica's

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Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2019 11:37 pm
by Bosscat
Lovely
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Local cricketer wrote:Cant beat Veronica's

Re: Tenerife...

Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2019 11:46 pm
by tim_noone
I'd heard the cable car was shut down? Unless it was a temporary situation..lovely up there.

Re: Tenerife...

Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2019 2:51 pm
by bfccrazy
On a cruise, yeah?

Surprised you weren’t visiting Elevenerife tbh.