There really are remote places on Tenerife. One is around the Taganana mountains in the northeast. Getting there isn’t easy – a bus from Puerto to San Cristóbal, then an hour-long taxi ride up the mountains. The taxi ride was ridiculously cheap so I had to over-tip. The forest is occasionally steep and rugged, with…

Tenerife is a island, one of the Spanish Canary islands, off the Atlantic coast of Morocco. In March, northern Europe is cold, but the Canaries are always warm. Corona isn’t quite over yet so I still don’t want to leave the EU. The south and east coast of Tenerife are very touristy, but the north…