What a difference a day makes. Stealing that line from Dinah Washington’s Grammy winning song could not be more appropriate for today’s travels. We started the day working our way through packed ice which, in Iceland is also called the airport parking lot, and ended the day on a tropical island that rightly bills itself as the land of Eternal Spring.
The Canary Islands are another story of mantle plumes (hot spots) and plate tectonics. As the African Plate inexorably drifts over the mantle, colliding into and then under the European plate, the hotspot remains fixed, continually building up pressure until it finally pokes a hole through the earth’s crust of the ocean floor in the form of a volcano. And there, forms an island. Eventually the volcano cools down and the African plate moves on, until again pressure builds up again and the process is repeated forming the archipelago of the Canaries. Today, this archipelago and the Island of Tenerife, the island on which we are staying, stands as a testament to the relentless forces that shape our planet. Even some Pleistocene glaciation played a part in these islands landscaping. That said, it is also a fine place to sit back and vacation with style and comfort.
We are staying at the Royal Garden Villas. While we have not yet explored the entire complex our villa itself is beautiful and a good place for Sandy to thaw out.
Outdoor Dining Space
The Outdoor Bathtub
Lower Balcony
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