We were in Tenerife when lockdown happened on March 16. The army were on the streets the next day, telling us in 4 languages to stay indoors.
Fortunately we had an apartment and were allowed to go out for food so we had a slow dawdle to the supermarket that had a wet fish counter
We were evacuated on the 18 th . My god it was like a scene from exodus, planes were landing and taking off within minutes and there were still thousands we were cheek by jowl with in the airport. They’d made an attempt at social distancing but it was carnage
People sat on the floor, one eatery open, I reckon they wanted rid of us tourists before it got tough.
I felt so sorry for a welsh couple in a hotel opposite, who isn’t reknowned for its cuisine, whose pool We were allowed to use.
Bless them they’d come on a 4 day break. They’d had the Friday and Saturday and Saturday night they were at one of the ( noisy) bars and the shutters came down at midnight.
They were then literally incarcerated in their hotel Sunday and most of monday.
The husband had a dietary disorder couldn’t eat a fruit or a vegetable without being ill, so they relied on restaurants for food. Every single one of them were closed with the chairs and tables all stacked up. They were sat by the pool ( which closed at 3 on Monday) literally waiting for the bus to the airport.
I didn’t realise we would be joining them on the Wednesday as we still had 10 days to go at that point.
When we got home you filthy lot 😂😂😂 had pinched all the bog roll so we HAD to go and get some didnt we 😂. Despite bringing back 16 rolls of the stuff we had in the apartment. To be fair my dd had dropped off a 9 roll pack, and my ds had pinched two of them.
On the Friday, still exercising our new freedom, we had a birthday lunch for my 10 year old grandson in the only Ice cream parlour still open at the beach before hot footing it to our caravan.
To check on it as we hadn’t been for 6 weeks
Yep the heating still wasn’t working, so had to wait for our plumber who could only come on Tuesday..the day everything closed and home we came.
So, yes we got a bit of freedom unlike Spain and Tenerife, who went deeper and deeper into the more.
Had we stayed and some friends did as they couldn’t get a flight back to the IOM that trip to the wet fish supermarket would most likely have been curtailed as the Spanish authorities got harsher and you could only use the nearest one to you, which was the one below the apartment and not as well stocked.
What they did to children was inhumane. Dogs were treated better
We are due back in Oct but Are waiting a while before booking a flight till we see how it goes.
All in all, I’m glad we came home.