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| Christmas decoration in Santa Cruz |
This weekend me and my friend went to
Santa Cruz (from Playa Americas), the main capital of Tenerife. We took the bus
(you can go with line 110-direct or 111-not direct, ticket price in one
direction is app 9€ ) and within an hour
we were in Santa Cruz. I booked a hotel
for 2 nights in the middle of the city. The hotel is near the main bus station (10min
walk). This hotel have two stars, it is a good value for the price, nice and
cozy, enough for me. But you have more choices of the hotels in Santa Cruz. We came in the
evening, done check in and decided to go for evening walk. It is a small city, but the center of the
city and shopping stores are always full of people, its is alive at the
evening. The city was decorated with
Christmas lightning and looked fabulous.
The plaza de España (built in 1929) looks very romantic in the evening and you feel safe with two statues of handsome Gunaches near the fountain. I must warn you to be carefull what restaurants you choose. You have to ask the waitress when the food will be served (if you do not want to wait for eternity) and if you have expectations about certain meal, ask as many details about. After a walk, we sat down in a nice patisserie Palmelita across the hotel where the atmosphere was also great. After a coffee/tea break we returned in to the
hotel to take a nap, which was not so easy because of two rooms on our left and
right side where two couples had passionate encounter with the windows wide
open. If you come close to the window, you don’t even have to watch tv, plenty
of action and drama going on there. In a moment, you can feel like in The man
who knew too much (Hitchcock movie) or Moulin Rouge. You could even get an
inspiration to write a book. But if you close the window and curtains, the show
is over. Like in the real life, you choose what you want to see. When we wake
up next morning, we went to Mercado Municipal Nuestra
Senora de Africa to buy mango, canarian bananas and pears.
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| Mercado Municipal |
The fruit is very, very
tasty and juicy. Just imagine the taste of
smoothie made with tropical mix of coconut, mango and pineapple or coconut,
papaya and strawberry. Many tasty possibilities with fresh fruits and
vegetables and it is very sweet also (natural fruit sugar). I really, really do
not see the meaning of canned juices. Sometimes, when I enter in to the
supermarket, I cannot find anything natural for me to eat. But this market in Santa
Cruz, had a potential to keep me there more than 10 minutes (and believe me, it
is a record). The market is also selling fish and meat along with fruits and
veggies. I am only concerned of the amount of fresh food that is not selled on
the same day when arrived and then thrown away. That means we are producing
more than we can sell and that is not responsible. That means that we are borrowing
from the nature (and kill) more than we need. We have to think of the new way of responsible
management of food, we became very comfortable and selfish about it. The market
have very nice and decorated interior. It is built in 1944. When you enter, you
will see crowded hallways and sense the combination of smells. You cannot pass
there and not buy something, so do not forget to take a bag with you. After while,
we exit the market and continued to walk through the city where we encountered other
market-many stands (no food although) in the street where you can find anything,
from clothes to knifes from the 19th century.
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| Market stands |
There are many spooky
stories about old things and energies that they had absorbed. Many people who bought some
old stuff soon had unexplainable experiences. The old stuff are not the only
thing that could possess energy, the old houses also could be filled with past
energy. It is known that energy cannot be destroyed, only transfered or transmuted. After two markets, we decided to
go to swim. In the middle of December, on cloudy and windy weather this
probably wasn’t good idea, but we went anyway. We took the bus line 910 and
after 15 minutes we were in Las Teresitas. The beach is perfect for families. The
sea is calm, on the beach are wardrobes and toilets, you have a lifeguard who
look like a Mitch Buchannon from Baywatch, umbrellas and deck chairs to rent. The big mountain is right behind the beach, it really looks spectacular with those white sand. You
just have to relax and enjoy in the sun and sea. But, in our case, we enjoyed the
sand (with the sand in our hair and ears because of the wind). When you want to
go home, the bus station is on the road near the beach and is going every 15
minutes to Santa Cruz.
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| Playa Las Teresitas |
When we came in Santa Cruz, we went to shops sightseeing
and then in to the hotel to get some sleep. But, suddenly, after few hours of
sleeping in my room, some noise wake me up in the 6am. It was the noise from
the alarm clock, but not mine!! After 10 minutes, it still rang, so I had to
get out of the bed and find out from where the sound came. I found out that is
in the room near to mine. I knocked at the door hoping that someone is in the
room and will switch the damn thing off. And some british guy said something
and then turn down that awful noise with uneven tones. Only chickens are awake at
6am, so I went to take a nap till the breakfast which I was really looking
forward. The terrace on the rooftop, the view on the city, the warm tea and
refreshing orange juice, the warm bread that was melting in my mouth with
strawberry marmalade on it, the peach….yes, small things like this can satisfy
me. To be continued.....
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| The view from the roof top |
While I am on Tenerife, I am living in the apartment
very, very near to the mountain in Adeje (Los Olivos) and 5 minutes drive with car
to the beach. When I first arrived, I stayed in the apartment near Fañabe for
two days and when I came to the current apartment, I immediately sensed the
difference between living in the center of the city or near the mountains.
Well, the energy is different. City have very heavy energy, especially in places with lot of people or buildings
piled to each other. I never understood the
meaning of living in the city “boxes” with no space or energy. Los Olivos is
no better at all, but the only helpful thing is mountain behind it with
refreshing air and energy.
