The big event this week in Tenerife was the Simply Red concert in Costa Adeje. Most of the 10000 crowd seemed to have a great time, but aspects of the organisation and the length of time Simply Red were on stage came in for some stick[…]
The most intriguing event of the week came courtesy of Bodegas Monje in El Sauzal who regularly hold interesting theme nights at their vineyard. On Saturday they came up with a real eye-opener; a wine & sex night[…]
One Spanish language newspaper reported last week that there was a crisis on Tenerife’s naturist beaches ““ not enough people are getting their kit off[…]
With the Spanish media concentrating on events in South Africa and TV telling us “podemas” again as well as a bit of wishful thinking with ‘Adios Alemania’, newspapers are full of monotonous mud slinging and allegations between politicians[…]
Juicy news was a bit thin on the ground this week. People were too busy watching that which can’t be repeated, the ‘F’ word, and enjoying musical and traditional fiestas to do anything newsworthy. But this is Tenerife; there’s always going to be somebody doing something that could only happen here[…]
The streets have been a bit quieter as usual as the local Spanish population and European ex-pat population (except the Dutch) have taken to performing acts of mass masochism.
But whilst the World Cup has dominated the headlines, there have been a few other interesting snippets in the news on Tenerife.
The unthinkable happened. After a blisteringly hot day previously, the weather turned fickle and rained incessantly on La Orotava’s Corpus Christi parade[…]
10,000 fans turned up in Santa Cruz to see Alicia Keys in concert. The Diario de Avisos attributes this to the crisis comparing the 30,000 strong audience for Shakira, 38,000 for Marc Anthony and 40,000 for Maná in non-crisis years[…]