Tenerife Quotes

Be careful - I might just have to bandage your lip." He frees it with his thumb and caresses it. For a moment I am back on the beach in Tenerife, blushing from embarrassment and excited by his gentle touch.

Ostan pealinna lähedalt Decathloni spordikaubamajast endale päris jooksutossud, milliseid pole mul kunagi varem olnud, pulsikella ja paar neljaeurost spordisärki. Proovin ka maikat, aga näen selles oma heleda naha ja hõreda heleda karvkattega välja nagu kiiritada saanud ahv.

Paradoksaalne on see, et enamik venelastest tahab emakeelset teenindust (ekskursiooni), sest üldjuhul on see ainus keel, mida nad mõistavad, aga samal ajal küsivad sellist tuuri, kus poleks teisi venelasi.

Meie lähme ema ja Nelega vaatama etendust nimega "Evolución". Olavi soovitusel istume parimatel kohtadel: kaheksanda rea keskel. Kohad number 2, 4 ja 6. Ei, need on ikka kõrvuti. Sest kohti nummerdatakse siin tõesti nõnda, et keskelt vasakule jooksevad paaritud numbrid ja paremale paaris numbrid. Miks minna otse, kui saab ringiga, eks ole.

Samuti ei ole [ragbi] fännide vahel kähmlusi ning tribüünidel on täiesti turvaline seista segamini teise tiimi poolehoidjatega. Ulme? Ei, selline sport on tõesti olemas.

Kui aga välja sööma minna, tuleb arvestada, et seal, kus kanaarlased teenindavad, on tempo üldjuhul hirmus aeglane ja vahepeal võib paar korda näljast ära minestada.

Oh, oleks mul vaid närvi aeglaselt süüa. Kui muidu olen elurütmi Tallinnaga võrreldes aeglasemaks keeranud, siis sööki nähes ma endiselt loomastun ning ahmin selle valguskiirusel sisse.

Eestlaste reisibüroo Kompass on loomulikult esimene koht, mis kaasmaalastelt riielda saab, kui nende külaskäigu nädalal pole ilm piisavalt päikeseline. Inimesed kõnnivad täiesti enesestmõistetavalt sisse ja nõuavad vastust, millal see jama lõpeb ja millal täpselt päike välja tuleb!

Nooremad vene daamid on hommikuti juba õhtumeigis ja kontskingades. Meeste riietele on hästi suurelt kirjutatud firmanimed, sama lai on nende kehakeel. Aga üleõlakott on vene meestel tilluke. Sihuke, mis mahub peaaegu pihku ära. Ja selle sees pole ilmselgelt sõnaraamat, vaid sularaha.

En el fondo se había dado cuenta de que todo era una fachada. Por más que se engalanase y le diese la sensación de haber recuperado su aspecto de mujer guerrera, el suceso de su último caso le había arrebatado lo que más apreciaba de ella misma: su fortaleza y su carácter. Una situación que había minado su autoestima. Se había dado cuenta de que en el fondo era una mujer vulnerable, como el resto. Ahora deseaba tomarse unos años de descanso en Tenerife y dejar atrás esos recuerdos que la atormentaban cada noche.

Üldse, mulle tundub, et järsk elustiilivahetus võimaldab probleemidest vabaneda. Näiteks Eestis, kui olin 30 aastat iga päev mitu kruusi piima joonud, lõpetasin selle lihtsalt paugust ära, viskasin ka kohupiimad ja juustud menüüst välja ning enesetunne läks palju-palju paremaks. Kui paari aasta eest igapäevasele kokakoolale ja nisutoodetele selja keerasin, võtsin mõne kuuga alla üheksa kilo. Pole mõtet küsidagi, kas enesetunne sai plusse juurde. Täpselt sada korda parem hakkas. Ja mitte ainult kehal, vaid ka kupli all.

Ilmselt aitas sulandumisele kaasa ka see, et lasteaias käib Susanna, kes on nelja-aastane linalakk eesti piiga. Aga kasvatajad ei luba neil väga eesti keeles rääkida - ikka inglise keel on siin ainus ametlik keel ning selles oskab Nele öelda "hello", "thank you" ja "Hello Kitty".

I am so happy,’ observed Jack, after a moment; and indeed he could be seen swelling with it. ‘But what was that about beer?’ ‘I asked whether we were still in the beer region, or domain, that part of the ocean in which the beer we bring from home and which we serve out daily at the absurd and criminal rate of a gallon – a gallon: eight pints! – a head, is still available. Has the beer not yet given way to the even more pernicious grog?’ ‘I believe we are still on beer. We do not usually run out before we raise the Peak of Tenerife. Should you like some?’ ‘If you please. I particularly need a light, gentle sleep tonight; and beer, a respectable ship’s beer, is the most virtuous hypnotic known to man.

Tenerife giant rats, Madagascar’s hissing cockroach, Galápagos turtles, and King Kong are all examples of island gigantism.

After three busy days in one of Tenerife’s harbors, Pigafetta wrote, “We departed thence and came to a port called Monterose,

Of the early founders, the most eminent proponent of physical geography as a scientific entity was undoubtedly the German polymath Alexander von Humboldt. On his many travels, he combined observations with measurements of temperature, pressure, and the Earth’s magnetic field, and made generalizations about the geographical distribution of vegetation, global-scale patterns of temperature (depicted by isotherms on maps), the ways in which temperature falls and vegetation varies with increasing altitude (on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, for example), the alignment of volcanoes, and the course of ocean currents. In his major works, written around the middle of the 19th century, such as Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe , published in 1849, he emphasized not only relationships within the natural geo-ecosphere but also linkages to human societies. A year earlier, Mary Somerville, based at the University of Oxford, published Physical Geography and defined the subject as ‘a description of the Earth, the sea and the air, with their inhabitants animal and vegetable, of the distribution of these organized beings and the causes of that distribution’.

Good leaders seize crises to remake organizational habits. NASA administrators, for instance, tried for years to improve the agency’s safety habits, but those efforts were unsuccessful until the space shuttle Challenger exploded in 1986. In the wake of that tragedy, the organization was able to overhaul how it enforced quality standards.40 Airline pilots, too, spent years trying to convince plane manufacturers and air traffic controllers to redesign how cockpits were laid out and traffic controllers communicated. Then, a runway error on the Spanish island of Tenerife in 1977 killed 583 people and, within five years, cockpit design, runway procedures, and air traffic controller communication routines were overhauled.41

Like most of the people I’ve ever worked with in my life, I’ve tended to live ever so slightly beyond my means. Any pay rise has always been quickly swallowed up by me choosing to buy a better car, or a better house, or take better holidays. I can afford it all as long as I have my job. But if I don’t then I’ll quickly be regretting not just keeping the old car and the old house and sticking to cheap package deals to Tenerife rather than the trip to Disneyland Florida we took Charlie on just before Amelia was born.

The following year, Leslie married an American, Barbara Meyer, who’d accompanied him to Tenerife. In early 1938, Charteris and his new bride set off in a trailer of his own design and spent eighteen months travelling round America and Canada.

THE TENANT of the Estancia Paso Roballos was a Canary Islander from Tenerife. He sat in a pink-washed kitchen, where a black clock hammered out the hours and his wife indifferently spooned rhubarb jam into her mouth.