The awakening of nature, the arrival (at least in the first hints) of the warm season, the sun that finally comes out from behind the clouds, make you a great desire for open air, to finally leave the house and, why not, to travel!
In this period, especially by exploiting the Easter holidays or spring bridges of the 25th of April and of the XNUMXst of May, the cities of art are usually the masters, who know how to offer the right mix of outdoor and indoor attractions, thus giving the certainty of always having something interesting to do regardless of the weather, which is known to be quite unpredictable.
It is not yet time to go to the beach, at least for peninsular Italy, and the first performance on the beach can be postponed with better results to June. Not even, in my humble opinion, is it the best season for the mountains, without the snow effect or the refreshing one from the summer heat.
So why not go warm, in the tropics? No, maybe intercontinental flights, let's leave them aside, they cost a lot and take a lot of time, which is not available. 4 hours of flight could be a good compromise, if you could even find a low cost it would be ideal. And maybe, why not, save yourself from getting a passport and avoid changing currency.
Tenerife, as well as the others Canary Islands (Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura, Lanzarote, La Palma, La Gomera, El Hierro), are part of Spain and therefore of the European Union and the euro zone. I'm not really on the Tropic of Cancer, but the latitude is that of Florida and Sharm el-Sheikh, yet without Tutankhamun's curse around the corner.
Therefore, being able to neglect the currency issue and that of the passport, the organization must focus mainly on two only aspects: travel and accommodation.
On the first point, it seems superfluous to say that the only way to arrive in time for a spring holiday is to choose a volo, which for all the main Canary Islands is guaranteed, with good prices, needless to say by Ryanair, the low cost that has the best coverage in the area. By booking early, you will find a return flight with not more than 150 €.
As for accommodation, wanting to focus attention on Tenerife, some very important preliminary considerations must be made, as the island has two microclimates quite different, the difference of which is more accentuated in spring rather than in summer. If in fact in the South we have a great climate dry, with very rare rains and very windy in some places, al north le rains they make themselves felt, bringing humidity to sometimes perceive temperatures considerably lower, even if only for the clouds that cover the sun, or which lower in the mid-coast areas to immerse the villages in a sort of sudden fog and sharp pain.
Said thus, the choice would seem more than obvious, clearly leaning towards the area with the lowest risk of precipitation, but in reality not all the "bad" comes to harm: in fact, in the south there is all the advantage of not even having to think about 'umbrella, the north is a spectacle of vegetation, an explosion of nature which, crossing the island by crossing the Teide, surprises and fascinates, for the sensation of being as if passed through a space-time door, which catapults us towards another world.
An important choice must therefore be made on which Tenerife you want to elect as your base, between the one more oriented towards bathing, beaches, almost "Riviera" entertainment and the more intimate, naturalistic and "senderist" one, to put it in the Spanish way, even if the capital and the others are also part of the north more historic main towns (Santa Cruz, La Laguna and Puerto de La Cruz), where intimacy goes a little bit to be blessed in favor of fun, creating a certain compromise.
Even the fact that there are two airports, needless to say “Aeropuerto del Norte” and “Aeropuerto del Sur”, seem to be organized on purpose to already skim the flows according to the choice. However, the great availability of rental cars for all tastes, the low cost of fuel (just over one euro per liter) and the not excessive size of the island, allow easy connections with almost all island areas.
So, before you go, make some considerations, especially about what you hate. In fact, if you do not have particular problems on the various aspects and situations that you might find on vacation, you will certainly have no problems moving and seizing all the opportunities of a multi-faceted island. But if you hated the nightlife rather than a very bizarre climate, choose accordingly, without delay!
