Today we went to Santa Cruz, which is the main city of the island (Tom sang The Thrills song at me).
It’s crazy seeing the old buildings mixed in with the new.
There was lots of awesome graffiti. We didn’t stay too long, just enough time to grab some lunch and go to a bookshop – I’d finished reading the first Twilight book and needed to get the second.
Afterwards we headed to Icod de los Vinos to see Dracaena draco, the Dragon Tree.
It’s the the largest and oldest tree of it’s kind and it has crazy looking roots and branches.
The locals believe that it bleeds blood because it’s sap is so red and that it’s made up of human bodies (as the poster shows).
There was also a volcanic cave, which was kind of creepy.
There was a mummy inside – very creepy.
Icod de los Vinos is also the main wine town on the island (the name gives it away), so we went to a little shop where we tried lots of different liqueurs.
I befriended a couple of parrots.
This one tried to speak to me but it only knew Spanish.
We then went for churros and hot chocolate, one of my favorite Spanish snacks (I posted a recipe for these ages ago) before heading home.
Tonight someone was singing Duffy’s Warwick Avenue song at the karaoke bar over from our hotel, which made me miss home. Also, worst news ever – Mr Warwick Avenue’s Service Information board has been replaced by an electronic one. How’s he going to write his witty signs now?!
Tags: animals, canary islands, dad, food & drink, graffiti, mum, santa cruz, tenerife
January 29th, 2010 at 7:49 pm
That tree is uber cool, like the tree in sleepy hollow! I am also devastated about the information board, always enjoyed seeing what he wrote next