Tenerife By Bus

Bus Routes: 483[Los Cristianos, Playa Americas] to Golf del Sur, 115[Santa Cruz] bus station, 015[La Laguna] bus station, 050[Punta Hidalgo] to Tegueste however on the day of the romeria the non-scheduled 052[Tegueste] runs a continuous service to Teguese. Return: 052[La Laguna] bus station, 015[Santa Crus] bus station, 111[Los Cristianos, Playa Americas] to San Isidro, 470[Los Cristianos] to Los Abrigos/Golf del Sur. Romeria means pilgrimage so this event published in the paper is the pilgrimage of Saint Mark where Canarians would walk to the church in Tegueste to celebrate the Saint. My friend Kev's holiday on Tenerife was drawing to a close so I thought this would show him a bit a local 'colour' then I began to wonder if it was a bit too far to travel if nothing much happened but we decided to go. I caught the 08:41 483 over to Golf de Sur and we retraced our route up to Santa Cruz. A ten minute wait for the 015 to La Laguna began to reassure me that we has made th...

Once again 'Pureze' gave a 'massive' performance at the 'Note de Caffe', Los Abrigos this time with the added talent of a younger brother who happened to be here on holiday - why waste family talent and he was definitely talented whether singing unaccompanied or as part of the 'trio' 

Bus Routes: 483[Los Cristianos, Las Americas Est] to Golf de Sur, 115[Golf Sur, Santa Cruz] to Santa Cruz bus station. (246[Taganana, Almáciga]) Return: (246[Taganana, Almáciga])111[Los Cristianos, Las Americas Est] to Las Chafiras, 483[El Medano] to Los Abrigos A friend of mine from England arrived in Golf de Sur at the beginning of the week after emailing to ask if I would provide more details of using the 'guagua'. [The square brackets denote the destination displayed on the front of the bus in my routes.] We met up at his hotel, conveniently the bus stop is just outside the 'Cordial Golf Plaza'. After a coffee and a tour of the facilities we went out to the bus stop so that I could explain how the local timetables work as, this being a one way system, both directions are displayed on the same stop. The times are also shown using the 24 hour clock with the hours along the top row(s) and the minutes underneath. I noticed that the 115 between Las Galletas...

On Tuesday whilst I was away in Adeje a stage mysteriously appeared in the village square followed a couple of days later by a connection to the electricity supply.

Bus Routes: 470[Los Cristianos] to Los Cristianos, 417[Guía de Isora] to Adeje. Return: 416[Los Cristianos] to Los Cristianos, 470[Granadilla] to Los Abrigos. I took this shot on my  first visit to Adeje. I decided to pop over to Adeje this afternoon for lunch (3pm ish) and to see if I could get inside the church. On Good Friday the right hand nave as you face the altar had a large blue curtain across it and I was curious to see what was behind. Mission successful, I managed to take some additional photographs too particularly of the right had nave entrance which had a carved screen and balcony with organ instead of the usual entrance porch. (I have added them to the 'Adeje' Photo Album.) I decided to have a wander down the street down from the fort which I had viewed but not followed on my original visit in January just to see where it lead to. Wandering down I came across some street sculpture and a rather nice amphitheatre and sports groun...

Bus Routes: 470[Granadilla], 111[Santa Cruz], 015[La Laguna] total journey time 2.0 hours Return: Travina (tram) to Santa Cruz, 111[Los Cristianos, P Americas Est] to San Isidro, 470[Los Cristianos] to Los Abrigos.  In the quest to see a procession of the cloaked brotherhoods in the full regalia I decided to go up to La Laguna on Easter Sunday. (Unfortunately it is the Good Friday procession when this takes place.) This is the first time I have been there but appeared to be a reasonably easy journey to make even on a Sunday. I took the now well travelled route to Santa Cruz setting off at 08:00 as I was not sure about how long it would take to find the Cathedral from the bus station at La Laguna. As it turned out it was a straight forward journey arriving in Santa Cruz in time to catch the 015 'Directo' and arriving in La Laguna to find that the 'estacion' has now been moved nearer the centre of town. The location is now on the Autopista del Norte (TF-5) exit l...

Bus Routes: 483[Los Cristianis, P Americas Est], 473[Los Gigantes] Return: 473[Los Cristianos], 483[El Medano] I had both read and heard about the 'Passion Plays' at Adeje so had decided this was one occasion not to miss especially at it starts at the reasonable time of 12 noon. Catching the 08:41 843 from Los Abrigos to the Estacion Costa Adeje enabled me to catch the 09:15 473 to Adeje on its way to Los Gigantes. Thus I arrived just after 10am giving me time for a view of the stage set, a cup of coffee and a Tuna salad bocadillo, and a look around the interior of the church which was closed when I visited the town in January. If you are on the Island on Good Friday this performance is well worth a visit. There is the house of the 'Last Supper', the 'Garden of Gethsemani', the 'Temple', 'King Herrod's Palace', 'Potious Pilot's Residence' and at the bottom of the street 'Golgotha' as main stage sets with activity al...

Bus Routes: 470[Granadilla], 035[Fasnia, Guimar] Return: 035[Roques-Fasnia,Granadilla], 470[Los Cristianos] Did you know there are pyramids in Tenerife? Well neither did I! Instead of an immediate return to Icod I decided to start exploring another bus route running out of Granadilla in the direction of Gúímar, the town had come to mind when I was looking at the Easter calendar and I also thought this would be an interesting trip as the TF-28 runs, more or less, parallel to the Autopista del Sur heading NE to Santa Cruz but is about half way or more up the mountain range. It takes in Arco and Fasnia and some tiny hamlets along the way. It is a very scenic journey taking some 1.5 hours door to door of an age when it used to take 11.5 hours to get from Santa Cruz to the south before the  Autopista was opened. I have marvelled at the grandeur of the route to Icod well this route winds up and down and round the many barrancos along the route. I finally managed to see some of...