A British mother visiting Tenerife with her son has described arriving at their hotel to see 'ash literally falling from the sky'
Speaking of the moment they arrived to their hotel, only about four kilometres from the fire, where they had planned to stay for a week-long, all-inclusive holiday, Ms Crowther said: “We got off the coach to ash literally falling from the sky, it was terrifying.”“It’s so miserable and upsetting,” she said, describing “black sunbeds” and pictures of the wildfires covering what would otherwise have been blue skies and a mountain landscape.
Sharing pictures of the soles of her feet turning black from the ash on the floor, she said: “There are big clumps of ash coming down on the swimming pool from the sky so, yea, it’s not great,” before adding: “There is a really strong smell of smoke today. It’s the first day I’ve felt it so strong.” She said firefighters were staying in the hotel, so “of course it’s one of the closest places [to the wildfire]”.
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