"Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with travelled bodies, but untravelled minds." - Caleb Colton
I found this sad, but thought provoking quote while I was poking around at 43places, but the quote is so apt to so many people who come to Tenerife and, I mean both tourists and expats alike. I don't mean to unkind: it's just true.
They appear to want "Blackpool with sun" and that's what they get.
In Playa de las Americas, for instance, they go to English bars to drink English beer (yet the local variety is both cheaper and nicer). They eat Full English breakfasts and Sunday Roast dinners, in British restaurants, served by British staff who speak no Spanish. And I have to wonder why they didn't just buy a sun lamp!
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