Return of the Native

It appears that navigating skills don't translate well into Spanish. My first attempt at an off-road route didn't fair too well.

M&D had got an article from the local (English) paper for a 8m route setting off from a small village on the west of Tenerife. They'd stopped at a little 'cafe' nearby before and were happy to sit and drink coffee whilst I set off to explore.

On setting off from the village plaza (behind the trees)

the written instructions seemed straight forward enough, anyway it was becomming apparent by point 3 on the map that things could get a bit tricky. The intention was to follow the green route, or short cut using the blue route, M&D had walked this far with me, Sebe the dog had sniffed every plant on the way so progress was slow!We finally made it to the lakes marked on the map. Quite a bit of detail of crossing paths etc was missing from the instructions. Next task was to get onto the ridge.

Well I got there and here's the view of Teide, when you turned round, believe me it's there, just hidden by a few clouds, a bit to the right of the treee covered hill in the middle!
Then things got a bit more tricky. Too many paths in the woods and not enough detail on the map/instructions meant I ended up here

Slightly south of point 7. This was only worked out on my return having studied a better map of the area. This wasn't in my rucksack, and had spent an afternoon in the cafe!

After that I stuck to the routes I knew along the coast. Nearest village to M&D's house is called Los Abrigos. All the sea front restaurants have their own fishing vessels for the 'catch of the day'

Anyway just to prove you can see Teide sometimes here it is looking from near M&D's house

Their house is one of the green ones with the sloping roofs on the right edge of the photo. The airport runway runs right across the middle of the photo just infront of the smallest little hill. If you zoom in you might just be able to make out the fuel tanks (white with red band) and the control tower.

Should be out for a Utup this Saturday (Icy roads permitting)
TF

ps To zoom in on photos you now have to hover mouse over picture and right click and then either choose to 'open link' or 'open link in new tab' or 'open link in new window'. Any of these methods will bring up the choosen photo and then allow you to zoom in, cursor shows as a + or -. If you just 'double click' on the photo it brings up all the photos in that 'post' as a slide show, but wont allow you to zoom in, or at least I can't seem to find a way to do it.