Just As Things Were Looking Up!

Wednesday seems to have become Limbo Day! The day before we find out our fate, what restrictions there will be, and which ones might be lifted.

We weren't surprised in the slightest by Boris's announcement last week, we all knew it was coming one way or another although I thought it might have been the Spanish government  throwing the spanner in the works, it was Boris, and we are all still labelled as "Amber" countries even though some countries have figures way lower than in the UK.
That said, there are a few tourists about, not many but a few, and its been lovely welcoming both old and new faces in to the bar and the village!

The whole situation just gets more and more confusing by the day and everybody has had enough.
Once again our figures in Tenerife have gone up and we wait until tomorrow to see what, or if any changes will be me made. Rumour has it that we may go back to level three, we are all hoping that this won't be the case.

This week we had to take a trip up to Puerto De La Cruz to help someone with some legal paperwork. After a few problems and with as much sorted as could be sorted we headed off to La Laguna as there were a  few things we needed that we couldn't get in the south. Thank you to "Sally the satnav" we found the city centre and rapidly found somewhere to park. We headed off in to the City centre as I needed to go to Marks and Spencers, there are certain things that can only be bought from M&S as I'm sure many ladies would agree. Since Brexit happened they have stopped delivering here and with no chance of getting to the UK anytime soon this was the next best thing.
Armed with my purchase we headed back to find the car. La Laguna is a beautiful city with lots of very old architecture and we soon learned that most of the streets all actually look very similar, and we were a little lost,
We had completely lost our bearings and although we knew the car wasn't far away we didn't for the life of us know which direction to take. We took to google maps which only confused us more, you wouldn't believe how many parking areas there are in such a small compact space, we even asked at the local cop shop.
Eventually we managed to retrace our steps and we were reunited with our car shortly after. A valuable lesson learned, pin the car on Google maps so that it can be found easily. I have to say though there are far worse places we could get lost.

It reminds me of a time when we lived in Mallorca and we went to Palma. We parked our car in the underground car park at El Corte Ingles department store. Knowing our car was safe, and that the entrance  to the car park was by the handbags we headed off to explore the city. A few hours later and a little bit bit weary we headed back to find the car. We must have walked circles around the ground floor at Corte Ingles as every time we found the handbags there was no sign of car park entrance. After much confusion and head scratching we were forced to ask someone. Only then did we discover that there were two Corte Ingles's in Palma and our car was simply parked underneath the other one!

We left La Laguna, visited a couple of other places on route and made our way home.

There are two birthdays in my household this week, My husband on June 17th and our son Jack who turns seventeen on Monday. It also coincides with the end of the school year and Jack graduates from high school. Sadly due to Covid we cannot be there to attend so our only option is to watch the live stream along with all the other parents.

This nearly brings me to the end but I couldn't blog and not mention the Los Gigantes Legend Joanne Love. She sadly passed away last week and will be missed by so many. She became a huge part of the Los Gigantes community and we all have very fond memories of "Our Joanne"

Until next time, Stay safe and keep the cheese on the cracker!

Ayuntamiento La Laguna

La Laguna

Joanne Love