Our first September in Tenerife, last year we spent it entirely in Yorkshire as it was Hubby’s last month of work and we were finalising emptying the Cawthorne house.
September is incredibly busy, always with work, but also socialising is full on! We start with our friend Jaqs from the next village, Callao Salvaje, and try the new beach cafe/bar there. It’s nice enough, and we will return for pizza another time.
Plenty of walks, of course, we’re rearranging our schedule quite a lot by walking early as it’s very hot and humid at lunchtime. The bonus is seeing the nearby beach at El Puertito completely empty.
We build up quite a collection of impressive stars, sunrises and sunsets this month.
With Jaqs again, we return to Tapas Boutique for a very enjoyable evening with two of her visiting friends, all three are senior sisters so plenty of gory stories! Another evening we give them an impromptu dinner party when a local restaurant lets them down.
Meanwhile family have descended on the island, so we receive them one day and have a fabulous time in the garden and pool, culminating in a BBQ and music. Next night we head up town to go bar-hopping and then for a great Italian in Las Americas.
Then it’s Jaqs birthday, by now her husband has arrived and we have a wonderful dinner party.
Later that week they introduce us to a new beach near Abama, a Ritz-Carlton and one of the poshest hotels on the island. The beach is very secluded and relatively unknown, requires a walk down a path alongside the barranco, and also has a fabulous cafe courtesy of the hotel.
Another excuse to celebrate Jaqs birthday comes on Friday. We visit our local Hard Rock and enjoy a dinner courtesy of Le Petit Chef, a franchise that can be found all around the world in fifty locations.
Elegant overhead projections bring humour to an anyway excellent dinner and we finish with champagne at the fire-pit atop the hotel.
Next weekend brings a new visitor, Maria, and we switch on “tour guide” mode for the mornings, I work afternoons as normal. Lots of great travels, old places and new ones, sometimes from a different perspective but all great adventures.
We enjoy the cabaret at Chez Lolo, even though the dinner isn’t fine-dining it’s a wonderful experience, another great dinner at Tapas Boutique and try a newly opened restaurant on the other side of our village called Nero Sul Mare, this is on the same outcrop of land as Roca Negro and owned by the same company. It’s pretending to be fine-dining but has a way to go yet.
September concludes with Sea-beau a new (to us) restaurant in the next village, the ritual making and stirring of Christmas pudding, and finally a Beatles and Dusty tribute show.
