Hay Carumba! All you can eat and drink.

Hi again. Catching up on our blogging now. We are in Spain now - on Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands. Sadly, a British lady was just killed here a few days ago by a crazed Bulgarian ex-mental patient. It's so scary and random, but we are okay thankfully so don't worry.

We made a brief stop first in Barcelona, where we have been before. We really like that city and would happily spend more time there again. It's charming, has a nice warm climate, lovely and interesting buildings, and a Tapas bar every four feet. What's not to like? Miles also liked the Spanish senoritas who he has noticed are not shy about showing off their cleavage. We stopped into the Sagrada Familia - Gaudi's masterpiece cathedral that is still a work in progress after like 180 years. It's pretty cool.

Now we are at a resort called Barcelos Varadero at Playa de Las Arenas on Tenerife - a dry, scrappy volcanic island with dramatic rising cliffs, black sand, deep turquoise water and a smattering of palm trees and bouganvillea. This resort is hilarious and super cheap so the clientele is ahem, how do we say, not the most upmarket bunch. They seem to have been attracted to the full board option, which includes all you can eat for three meals a day, PLUS ALL YOU CAN DRINK in alcoholic beverages too, from 10 am to 11 pm at night, all for the absurd price of 20 Euro a person. Miles and I have chosen not to take up this amazing offer though as our hotel apartment has a kitchen and we are cooking for ourselves (this means we are missing out on such culinary delights as hamburgers, chips, day glow orange rice and mini frankfurters washed down with plastic cupfuls of beer, but we do not feel left out : )

It is endlessly entertaining here, with the carnival atmosphere, the topless sunbathing by woman large and small (Hay Carumba! That one above is possibly in the whale watching category - no not me, thanks very much), along with the aquarobics, and the cacophony of languages from Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, French and German to northern English accents so impenatrable, they may as well be speaking Swahili. People on the all inclusive board option sport red wristbands, and they also display a passion for laying out in the sun until their skin tone closely matches their wristband!

Needless to say, people watching is our favourite activity, following by swimming, walking, yoga, supermarket shopping and red wine drinking on our balcony. Next stop, Madrid. I'm sure it will be more civilized but not necessarily more fun : )