Tenerife

Monday, 11^th January 2016

Hi everyone who follows our blog.  We are on board the Oriana for another cruise holiday, this one for 50 nights, around the Caribbean and across to America, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica and Mexico.   We have had a rather rough three days, along the English Channel and across the Bay of Biscay, but things seemed to have calmed down a bit as we approached Madeira and then on to Tenerife.

Today was our first stop and that was at Tenerife and we went on an excursion to the Gardens of the Valley.  This included three very different gardens, firstly a Botanical Garden full of trees and shrubs collected around the world.

We then visited two very beautiful private gardens over looking Puerto de la Cruz ,the  first was the Risco Bello Gardens where we were treated to a glass of local wine, followed by the Orchid Gardens of Sitio Litre.

 The weather was perfect about 21 degrees and sunny, so a very enjoyable day. However we are off again crossing the Atlantic towards the Caribbean where although the temperatures are in the lower 20 degrees we are experiencing some 6-7metre swells.

Doreen and I have joined the Art class again (run by Annie Barnham ) and Doreen also goes to a Craft class which is currently making cards ( mainly Decoupage ). Along with attending lectures by Eric Knowles on Antiques we are keeping busy between  meals !!!