Because my phone number is given on eTenerife.com on the off-chance that some mad person wants to call me to arrange some internet advertising I get quite a lot of phone calls from people thinking they are calling a particular hotel, restaurant or travel shop.

For some reason Directory Enquiries in the UK seem to give out my number for any query related to Tenerife. As an example I recently had a conversation with Dave who thought he’d got through to a certain restaurant.

Unfortunately Dave happened to call at a bad time for me – I always enjoy these phone calls and am happy to help if I can but at kid’s bedtime …uh… what? With one ear out for bathtime mischief and the other for the kids killing each other I am not the best one to take a message. Dave asked me to help him out with an alternative restaurant recommendation for Christmas Day and I scribbled down the email address he gave me whilst aware of a rising level of squabbling coming from down the hall.

Now I’ve got a couple of alternatives for Dave, I can’t read the damn email address. So sincere apologies to Dave in the UK. I would have recommended the Moroccan Paris Marrakech restaurant for a fab night out.

Just this morning I had a call from a Russian travel agent. Apparently she has a group due over to Tenerife soon and she needs to find a rock climbing instructor for them. Again she found me because of the phone number on the footer of the rock climbing in Tenerife page. I seem to get quite a few enquiries via that page and have had my eye out for supplemental informative links for a long time. For ages the best I could do was the UK Climbing forum and a couple of Spanish language sites (which given that most visitors to eTenerife are from the UK is helpful but not ideal) but lo and behold as I was fiddling about in Google while talking to the Russian woman, I came up with some new sources.

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