Around Santa Cruz - Playa de las Teresitas and La Laguna

Finally, I found a beach without dark sands but they were imported from Sahara :-)
As a matter of fact the sand was almost boiling that it was impossible to walk in it with naked feet.
Therefore I stopped to eat a pulpo frito that surely is not Paul ... at least in Spain :-)

Before going to La Laguna for an easy walk around its historic center

If hell exists...

... then the temperature would be like in Canarian summer because the archipelago climate is closer to african climate than european one.

The picture above was taken some meters besides Jardin Botanico that was created in order to acclimatize
species from the new land (America). Some species could survive in Canary Island but surely didn't survive in european winter.

Even for people who definitively doesn't matter about botanic subjects there are shadows...lots of them :-)

Weekend in Canary Islands

I went to Tenerife's west neighbour island whose capital is San Sebastian  from where Colombo stopped for replacement before going to the new world.
The language of the Gomera Silbo (Whistle) is by far another of the unique expressions of La Gomera. Rising originally aborigine times, it was used to communicate between one deep canyon and another. Anyway if I heard it I woudn't recognize it :-)
For people who enjoys walking there is Parque Nacional de Garajonay where there are lots of trails or senderos to walk through

On the way back I stopped at Playa de las Americas which is another beach with dark sands ... and rocks. It could be called beach on  the rocks :-)

La Orotava

It's a colonial city located close Puerto de la Cruz with cobblestone streets and lots of smokers as whole Spain :-(

At Rome dress yourself like romans :-)

Therefore after lunching I took a siesta and when I got up there was time to run at Iglesia Nuestra Señora de la Peña de Francia :-)