Hiking in Tenerife: Its extra-terrestial terrain is out of this world

I knew the writing was on the wall when the statuesque Dane (a woman you could easily imagine jumping in ahead of her fearsome countrymen on that Viking longboat about to sail for our shores) sternly announces “if you want to hike here on Tenerife you have to be in good shape”.

Quaking in our ‘dressy up’ shoes, my motley crew was in a minority.