The Guachinche ““ an authentic dining experience
We followed the car in front as it weaved around corners and sped down narrow roads. Eventually it screeched to a halt in what appeared to be the middle of…
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Arepa – first class food from the eighth island
Some call them corncakes, some call them maize doughnuts, and some like me are too busy wolfing them down to call them anything. Either way you will see lots of…
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Mate, not everyone’s cup of tea
Walking on the Tenerife beach is nearly toasting your feet, the temperature is up in the high 20 degrees, yet people are drinking from Thermos flasks ““ and they are…
Top Ten-erife Cocktails
With the party season upon us and little black dresses at the ready (the boys will have to wait until Carnaval to wear theirs), here’s TM’s guide to the top cocktails expected to be sipped across the island over this festive holiday […]
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The Monk, the Goats and the Wine.
La Montañeta del Fraile (the monk’s hill) is a volcanic cone on the eastern boundary of Los Realejos overlooking La Orotava and Puerto de la Cruz. On the summit, a small white Ermita stands, keeping a lonely vigil over the valley until […]
A Sweet Christmas Tale of Turrón
Forget colourful decorations and chubby Santa Claus figures hanging from window ledges, there’s one sure sign in Tenerife that Christmas is closing in with the speed of a runaway bullet train ““ a whole aisle appears in supermarkets filled with boxes of a peculiarly Spanish Christmas speciality, turrón […]
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Soup-er Halloween Recipe
Halloween is a celebration of the old Celtic New Year which welcomes the onset of true winter and has traditionally included the use of divinations to […]
The Big Cheese
Did you know that Tenerife was Wallace and Gromit’s favourite holiday destination? No? I’m not surprised as I just made it up […]