Retirement advice by French Claude for Tenerife retirement overseas.

Retirement advice by French Claude is almost based on 2 decades of living in Tenerife.

Claude is in his late seventies now. He always was an intelligent man and now he is a wise man.

Claude's first advice is to keep all your contacts with family and friends in your home country because, you don't know how you will feel abroad once getting older.

The second most important step to get the most out of retirement overseas was for him to learn the language of the country where he wanted to live and where it's most important to make native friends.

It would cost you more
to buy the paper than what you pay for a small Spanish coffee which is not more
than 75 cents now in 2008 while a good local Dorada beer only sets you back EU 1,20', he added.

Claude's retirement advice
for Tenerife Spain is also
to go out a lot to cafés to mix with people.

You don't invite friends or potential business partners
to your home in Spain. You meet in restaurants or in cafés.

Besides, it's in international cafés in Tenerife suburbs where you hear who in the suburb has won the lottery, about private clubs for playing card games or,
where you find tennis or golf partners or the next electrician.

Claude's advice for Tenerife was, also, that one makes easier contacts as a pensioner away from tourist hubs.

Did you know that they even let retirees and others stick a flier onto their café windows or doors in Spanish suburbs ? Claude showed me that.

Claude loves France which also has beaches but, his retirement advice will always be 'get old in Tenerife'.

Of course, the island's climate is great for retirees whose health usually diminishes with age.

Walking is cheap and versatile
on the island.

Claude thinks that Tenerife
local food is good for retired people. He loves the vegetable soups, the fresh Dorada fish, wrinkle potatoes Papas , the small local bananas and a daily copa which means a glass of a regional red wine....

Claude, occasionally is taken by friends to lunch at the Monasterio where he even battles to move his bed leg to the patio restaurant.

"Enjoy Tenerife carnival which will make you feel younger", is also a comment Claude would make.

Claude likes concerts at Abaco or, to join a group of friends for entertainment at the auditorio in the capital..

"Learn a new skill for a new hobby while you are not too old is a retirement advice by Claude. And meditate.." Yes, Claude meditates, too.

Walk down the road the Canary Island style corner building AudioCenter 399 which is a school for informatics in Puerto de la Cruz. Turn left and then right into C/ Mazaroco where you will find the Universidad immediately on your left.

That 'universidad' is a school for everybody.

Their tuitions vary. Go, have a look.

Advice for retirees Puerto de la Cruz for health water gymnastics:

Santa Rita Hogar
Puerto de la Cruz
Above Playa Jardin
(las Dehesas)
Bus #354 and Bus #353
EU 30/month
(daily expert guidance)

Go daily to Puerto de la Cruz Natural Swimming pools at Lido/Lago Martianez.
Buy a monthly ticket for about EU 35.

Special advice for people who retire in Tenerife by Claude to save money:

Make local friends to learn all the tricks where to get things cheaper such as medicines. Please, go from retirement advice by Claude to living in Tenerife with more useful tips for foreigners living on the island on vacation or who want to retire overseas in Tenerife. Tips include info about European medical social security card which entitles you to go to Tenerife medical centers(Centros de Salud).

Ask there for pensioner prescriptions which will buy you medicines at Spanish pharmacies much cheaper is an additional retirement advice by Claude.

Ask for help at the Social Services at Town Halls.

You can even make an appointment with a free lawyer.

Make an appointment for free of charge 'Consumer Complaints' and its handling.
Here is a whole list of their Tenerife offices in different towns.

Most complaints are for faulty telephone invoices or
complaints about local artisans or companies whose service were not fulfilled.
Some queries involve renting.
Please note: For letting or house community queries an 'administrador de fincas' applies.

Speaking basic Spanish will do, otherwise, bring an interpreter.

Singles' pensioner lunch Puerto de la Cruz:

Such a lunch organized for the elderly allows for socializing and saves time for other things to do is Claude's retirement advice comment to that subject.

There is one such eating center with large garden besides the bus station parking ground in Puerto de la Cruz on the right of the station when in front of it. A Centro Salud is next door.

All those institutions are advantages of the oldest resort in Tenerife which is Puerto de la Cruz.

Now, Claude is not feeling so good any more as he used to do.

He had problems with arteries from his feet up.

Two operations have not healed so well, yet.

That's just part of age. As long as he can he will stay on the island. So, he said...

Claude's retirement advice for advanced old age is: Go back to your home country unless you have family abroad with you...

The other option would be to join a reputable retirement home in Tenerife...

A relatively new one is in La Paz Puerto de la Cruz. Signs pointing to it are near the Botanic Gardens (El Botanico) Puerto de la Cruz. The father in law of a British Lady I know lives there. The gentleman is recovering from cancer and seems to be very happy from what his son tells. ( More about this later).

Retirement advice for luxury Tenerife old age homes:

Name: DAVIDA Centro Residencial
Calle Brezo, 19
38400 Puerto de la Cruz
Tel: + 34 922 389955

Another professional home for the elderly is Martina Residenz Puerto Cruz in prime location which has been praised often.

Other pensioner stories of North Tenerife:

Berta;

Richard

Elizabeth.

Young Laura and family

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