The view on the train back ;o)

A cemetary by the beach (also at the top of heart-attack hill, fuck, it was a hard trek!)

more Kite surfers in the distance

St. Ives town

A Kite Surfer - how effing cool?!!!!

Pauline and me after climbing up the hill

can't get enough of how clear the water is! only managed to get my legs up to my knees wet (was too cold for more)

My fave thing - just how deserted it was!! (OK, so that might have had something to do with the fact that it's late September in the UK...) But it was BEAUTIFUL ;o)

I'm still amazed at how amazing our beaches can be!!! St. Ives and the surrounding area boast a number of beaches all fairly close to each other so me and Pauline went to all of them!

St Ives

Only managed to stay in Tenerife for 4 days as I do actually spend some days working, despite what you may think! Only for a few days though...another coastline was calling me...this time St Ives, Cornwall ;o)

Cath and Will, our massage and steamed crab mates from one of our fave places - Mui Ne, Vietnam. They very kindly let us stay in one of their apartments, drank threesomes at Manalo's (this is a small beer, a large shot of brandy and an espresso - how hardcore?!), shared some tapas, saved our asses on the road and showed us a brilliant time. MUCHAS GRACIAS....you're my heroes! I can't wait for the day I retire...will always remember being met by you at the airport, both of you sun kissed and in little shorts and telling me about your day fishing and Cath catching a shark! Looking forward to seeing you again and will be thinking hard of a way to match your night out with Rod before xmas.... Lxxx 

sunsetting

The opera house in Tenerife

another day, another beach

wind power

red chillies

Layla and her own special aperitif curtesy of the restaurant

m'Jules

and more tapas at Rancho el Palm Mar

yum!

The Capital

gettin' buried