We were wary because I had been told that in the 16th century, there were more pirates in the Canary Islands than in the Caribbean

Worse, I learned that Tenerife’s Teide Volcano, the third highest in the world among island mountains, which casts the largest shadow on the sea in the world, was believed by the Guanches — the indigenous people of Tenerife (who no longer exist, the locals now being known as Tinerfeños) — to be the entrance to hell!

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