Its been Hot Hot Hot, with temperatures soaring in to the mid 30's, and lovely as it is I am craving my jeans and boots. The weather is due to change a little at the weekend. A bit of cooler weather will be welcome after this heat!
It has been a week of reflecting really, and not just 2020. One day when we were in full lock down, i got a little philosophical and started talking about what we did and didn't have 20 years ago, for example...
We only visited large supermarkets once or twice over a two weekly period. The rest of the time you would use the local Green Grocer, the local Butcher, there would also be a local Hardware store. You can now get it all from one big supermarket.
There was no such thing as ready meals, if you wanted Yorkshire puddings with your Sunday roast, you made them, there were no Aunt Bessie's in the freezer!
Hen nights and Stag parties were taken locally, these days it is a four day bender in a foreign country.
People seem to have this need for the latest "this" and the latest "that, whether they can afford it not.
Is there really any need?
I was probably just as guilty as the next person, however Lock Down has really taught us that we don't need all these brand new must have material things around us.
I just feel like the world got too complacent and everything had become too readily available until Covid.
Someone said to me recently (before Covid) that we (the human race) would destroy this world and I feel like they might be right.
When I was a kid I used to get hand me downs from family members and I really enjoyed getting a bag of second hand clothes. Maybe I was lucky as I had very trendy older cousins. These days people would rather go to Primark and buy throw away crap! Everything has just become so disposable.
I´m just not sure what our world has become, and I´m not sure I like it, I´m also unsure of how we are ever going to come back to any normality after this. However I feel like we maybe need to look back before we can move forward.
When my family and I first moved to Tenerife there were two days a week that you could travel here, Tuesdays and Fridays. Then flights became two a penny and people could travel here any day of the week. It never made the island any busier.
We visited Los Cristianos last night, I've been curious to see it because unless you live or visit a place you can´t possibly know what it is like. We went for Dinner at a lovely Italian restaurant on the Mirador strip, usually this would be very busy and they would send people to the bar next door while they waited for a table to become available. We were there for approximately two hours, a handful of other people came in, and in all the time we were there I saw about 20 people walk past.
From there we took a drive through Playa De Las Americas and it was just so sad. Passing through the Safari Centre which is one of the busiest areas with lots of large hotels, we saw about fifty people. We then drove further along through San Eugenio and it was just the same.
So, lets talk about Los Gigantes. Everyone who visits here says how safe it feels. Its a small village with a good community of local people. It is built on the side of a mountain but I guess most places in Tenerife are. A lot of places have reopened after Lockdown but like someome said to me last night we don't quite have the massive rents and the massive competition that they have in Las Americas. In my opinion Las Americas and the surrounding area has just got too big.
Los Gigantes hasn't really grown that much over the last few years and I really do feel that the smaller places maybe the ones that come out better off than the larger resorts.
Sadly The Los Gigantes Hotel remains closed, as do the Sombrero Apartments along with many other places. However there are still some great accommodation options available should you be in a position to travel.
Until next time, stay safe and keep riding the storm. Also feel free to message me, I try to respond to them all. You can also find me at 60's Bar at the weekend and The Wine Bar on Mondays from 3PM
H x
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