Christmas day

Another hot day! Another lazy start!

We both bought each other the new Peter Kay DVD for Xmas, so we have a spare one now.

We had some panetone for breakfast, and set off up the roads to Teide. On the way up we stopped to take photos near the site of the last eruption and then carried on up to the car park by the Samara volcano. The walk we did skirted the side of the Botija volcano (2122m), next to a fairly recent lava field. It was quite an uphill trek but at the end flank of the volcano we were rewarded with views of the Reventada volcano's cone, where much of the lava had come from. We could also look down on the clouds beneath us. It's strange that during the middle of the day when you look up towards Teide it is cloudy, but on the top it is sunny. Yet a no point does one drive through cloud on the way up.

We met a few other walkers who had the same idea as us for Christmas Day.

Back down everything was quiet. Even the old men who populate the street cafes and benches had gone.

Back at the villa, we ate a Xmad dinner of pumpkin and spinach nut roast with mushroom sauce, roast potatoes, carrots and french beans, followed by Xmas pudding and brandy sauce.

We tried to get the DVD to play but the TV system here defeated us so we watched Howard's End instead.