New wave Canaries

Harbour Breakwater At Sunset., Puerto De La Cruz, Isla De La Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain Buy this Print

Los Angeles Times reporter, Susan Spano, visited Tenerife in mid-January and got surprised by the "little island, with many climates". Having been unable to reach the Parador in the Teide National Park, because of nieve - snow, she talks of walking among the 16th and 17th Century palaces of La Laguna.

Ms Spano's account is, thus, likely to be one of the last to describe the latticework and wood balconies that hung over the streets and the blissfully peaceful and green interior courtyards of the sadly now gutted Bishop's Palace, Casa Salazar.

It also meant that she stayed, accidentally, in La Laguna, at the Hotel Nivaria, a building from the seventeenth century, which originally hosted aristocratic families and was then the starting point for those who went to discover the New World.

It is nice to read this excellent account of the better attractions of Tenerife, written by an American and which puts the island into a context that prospective US visitors will understand, by making comparisons to places they will know.

And note that she considered prices "surprisingly reasonable", even at Santa Cruz' top hotel, the Sheraton Mencey.

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