I could give you a day by day account of my holiday in Tenerife but let me save a few thousand words by posting some pictures instead.

A lorryload of bananas spotted when out walking

Something of a cloudy day but it was perfectly warm and the sand perfectly delightful if you don't mind the colour.

It even snowed one day but only at 12,000 feet.

One of the floats in the Three Kings procession.  Sweets were sprayed liberally over the crowd. A "shortcut" back to my hotel ended up in a taxi ride two hours later.

 Here are the extraordinary jagged ranges of spent volcanic peaks that I remember vividly passing as we sailed into Santa Cruz en route home from Kenya in 73.

I couldn't get enough pictures of gorgeous waves breaking on the rugged rocks that make up the coastline.

In contrast a path through a forest in the mountains.

Flowers in the aptly named Orchid Garden in El Puerto.  This is the garden of a private house built by a Scottish wine merchant in 1730.  It's been in British hands ever since and lots of household names have stayed there, Oscar Wilde and Agatha Christie amongst them. 

This chap's picture is pinned up somewhere in the garden.  I discovered that he was the founder of an industrial empire in Tenerife that persists to the present day. He arrived from Greenock aged 17 in 1816 and flourished.
These two articles give the lowdown.

The Hamilton Heritage

The Scottish Origins of the Hamilton family   

It's a beautiful place.  I'll be back.