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Alec Trician. (is keeping perfectly still) Started conversation Oct 19, 2002
Whilst on Tenerife, you must MUST rent a car and drive round the island...the change between the coastal strip and the highland is incredible. The scenery up there is completely different and has to be seen to be believed.
You MUST (whilst up there) climb to the top of the Teide volcano...don't worry, it's quiet,(and a cable-car goes up most of the way).
WARNING : DO NOT SIT DOWN at the top.
Whilst on holiday with girlfriend from Cadiz, we climbed up and sat down, took in the amazing view for 20min. Started on the way down and girlfriend notices that i have small hole in seat of trousers. By the time we get back to the cable-car, i have lost the entire seat of my new jeans and am forced to stand with my back to the wall.
At the Pico of the Teide, there are some extremely corrosive emissions coming out of the rock, so BEWARE!!
hope you have a great time...
alec.
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GreyDesk Posted Oct 20, 2002
Cheers alec 
We don't really have an intinery of what we are going to do whilst we are there. Chilling out and forgetting about work seems to be the number one theme of the holiday at the moment. But hey, if you've got a volcano just up the road, you really ought to go check it out 
Oh, and have fun with the quiz whilst we are away. There will be plenty there to keep you all busy. And it isn't too Anglocentric either 
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Lighthousegirl - back on board Posted Oct 20, 2002
Thanks Alec 
I am really lookinf forward to going
Two weeks of doing what ever we fancy 
* makes mental note of clothes distroying properties of the volcano just incase she needs them! *
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loosehead Posted Oct 20, 2002
Enjoy the holiday both of you - and try to think up some harder questions - avoiding English football and road numbers which are my strengths 
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Alec Trician. (is keeping perfectly still) Posted Oct 20, 2002
The sad thing about Europe now using the Euro is that national landmarks no longer feature on paper money.
Up in the highlands on Tenerife, not far from the Pico, is a rock formation, instantly recognisable and unique to the island, that used to feature on Spains 1000 peseta note...
alec.
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Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ Posted Oct 21, 2002
travel safe and remember: the journey is the destination 
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GreyDesk Posted Oct 21, 2002
"The journey is the destination", hmmm.... not convinced I'd fancy two weeks on a charter Boeing 737 
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Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ Posted Oct 22, 2002
okay, okay, point taken, GD
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GreyDesk Posted Oct 22, 2002
Well I know Tenerife *is* a volcanic island, and as such has at some point in time moved, as it were.
However I would rather it didn't move whilst I was there. And also moving the *whole* island would be rather a lot for one volcano, even if it is a really big one
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GreyDesk Posted Oct 22, 2002
It might. It might also mean I get blown to little pieces, and I'm not terribly keen on that
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friendlywithteeth Posted Oct 22, 2002
We'll have to wait and see: you might change your mind and enjoy it 
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GreyDesk Posted Oct 22, 2002
Oh I'm sure I shall enjoy it. Provided there are no exploding volcanos anywhere
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Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ Posted Oct 23, 2002
but you could go down in history as the first grey desk ever to be blown into tiny pieces by an exploding volcano 
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- 1: Alec Trician. (is keeping perfectly still) (Oct 19, 2002)
- 2: GreyDesk (Oct 20, 2002)
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- 4: Coniraya (Oct 20, 2002)
- 5: loosehead (Oct 20, 2002)
- 6: friendlywithteeth (Oct 20, 2002)
- 7: Alec Trician. (is keeping perfectly still) (Oct 20, 2002)
- 8: Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ (Oct 21, 2002)
- 9: GreyDesk (Oct 21, 2002)
- 10: friendlywithteeth (Oct 21, 2002)
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