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Snow on Teide after Filomena

17 January, 2021 15:43

Hey guys, as promised yesterday, here're some pro-camera photos from our Friday trip to Teide! Hope you like it.. Check out here for some more if you like, too: https://mia-photos.com/tenerife

 

We drove by the northern road, up via Icod de los Vinos by sandy road (warning: not all cars can go through that road!! Only SUV's / offroaders, so be careful, and, furthermore, connection ain't so good either in case if you'll need grua (evacuation services)..).

  • fog, clouds, Teide
    Passing through strongest, thick fog & clouds
  • Soon the greenery of the forest has turned all white and snowy.. and oh so beautiful!..
  • A must pic above the clouds =D
  • restaurante bamby, teide
    Quick coffee break at Restaurante Bamby. They don't have any other milk options apart from a regular cow one.. so bring your own tea or coffee with preferred plant based milk along x
  • leica cam
    Babe's happy with his old film cam)))
  • Stopped there to enjoy some snow sliding (thanks G-d, we all managed to stop before the road started..)))
  • edu, chakachanchan
    Edu with his Chaka-chan-chan :)
  • snow slide, teide, hills
    Fun and, probably, last slide down those hills..))
  • hills
    ..or these hills
  • Less and less snow the more we're coming down to the coast..
  • traffic jams, teide, snow
    Witnessed crazy traffic jams on the way up to Teide when we were coming back down.. Guardia Civil was stopping all traffic, so those who wanted to see Teide in snow, had to leave their cars and walk ca. 2-3 km by foot.

I must admit that every time when I'm feeling low and blaming this island for its bureaucracy, isolation from the 'big land', bad volcanic energy  and G-d knows what else (because, you know, when things go bad or just a bit stagnant, you wanna blame whatever & whoever else but not yourself!), I need to remind myself still how bloody lucky I am to live and work here, with the person who I love with all my heart, with THE most amazing, educated cats, to be able to travel between the islands just out of boredom and at the last minute booking, to go snow sliding and next day to swim in the ocean... and many other things. This hurricane Filomena was one of them. We were suffering from the summer heat and begging for rain - we got it. I was feeling nostalgic about snow in Russia - we got that too without even leaving the island... Tenerife has so much to offer if you know where to look and are patient. Even the world pandemic wasn't as bad here as in other countries/cities of the world... And I know that people who have left the island, already miss it and look to come back.

 

So.. Thank you Tenerife. For all the lessons you taught and keep teaching me. I guess it has become really serious between you & me :)