A perfect end to our trip

With half a day to fill between our arrival in Tenerife on the ferry from La Gomera and our flight departure for Edinburgh, we followed the advice of our friendly guide Juan Miguel and picked up a hire car from CiCar at the port - €39 all in for the day with fully comp insurance and no worries about checking for scratches and dents etc.

Drove along the coast to a little fishing village- Tajao- which has so far avoided the mass tourism crowd and had an excellent lunch at Agua y Sal.

While we stood waiting for our table we had a chat with one of the waiters about the fish on display and chose the three courses of our meal - Grilled langoustine and Scallops to start, Spaghetti a la Marinara to follow and  sardine and tuna brochettas to finish. A reasonable half litre of ice cold white wine to wash it down and a cafe solo to follow - all for less than £50. Just the sort of meal that Bernie G would have enjoyed - and probably still does.

Due the onset of the Scirocco wind from the Sahara, the temperature was hovering around 37C and really too hot for anything other than a quick stroll around the port and back to the air-conditioned comfort of the airport terminal and hordes of our compatriots who have gone from the blue-white skin tone of their arrival to something akin to the that of the grilled langoustine we had for lunch.