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Where on Tenerife is this? Photo Challenge #8

Posted on December 8, 2010January 6, 2011
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byJack Montgomery

We don’t know if our last photo challenge of 2010 is going to prove a difficult one. It’s certainly a unique scene and here at TM we aren’t aware of any other open air churches like this on Tenerife…

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Animal Baby Boom and Snow on Mount Teide in Tenerife News of the Week

Posted on December 7, 2010December 14, 2010
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byJack Montgomery

After storms and strikes, let’s put aside the week’s woes and try to dunk ourselves in some Christmas spirit. Christmas lights are being erected and turned on across Tenerife’s towns, nativity scenes are springing up in shops and town halls and…

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Lucas Maes Restaurant and the Art of Fine Food.

Posted on December 6, 2010January 10, 2011
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byAndy Montgomery

It’s his passion for preparing and presenting his dishes as an art form that has earned Lucas his reputation as a chef’s chef and one of the finest in the Canary Islands.
Nothing here is mass produced or frozen, every ingredient is freshly prepared by Lucas[…]

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A Christmas Cocktail In Santa Cruz And La Laguna – Hold The Ice

Posted on December 5, 2010January 5, 2011
byColin Kirby

Trying hard not to step on a shepherd or reduce the wise men to 2, I picked my way through the large free standing nativity or belen (above) at the Casa de Los Capitanes Generales…

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Eating Gofio on Tenerife, the Original Power Drink

Posted on December 5, 2010December 28, 2010
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byJack Montgomery

It might seem like an outrageous statement but that little bowl of gofio accompanying soups and stews such as puchero in some traditional Canarian restaurants was partly responsible for the birth of civilisation…

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Walk this Way, La Caldera

Posted on November 30, 2010December 25, 2010
byAndy Montgomery

From the wide forest pista (path) of La Caldera a trail snakes up through the forest, ever higher until it reaches the ridge and the world below opens up at your feet. You can sit on flat rock chair, dangle your legs and tuck into egg butties in front of a wide screen vista that makes you glad to be alive.

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Violent Storm Lashes Tenerife

Posted on November 30, 2010December 20, 2010
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byJack Montgomery

As something resembling normality returns to Tenerife and the Canary Islands, reports of the intensity of the wind, rain, lightning and thunder that have spectacularly assaulted the island over the last couple of days…

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Tenerife Nightlife, Bar Hopping In Los Cristianos, Part One

Posted on November 30, 2010December 22, 2010
byColin Kirby

Blue unicorns, alien lampshades and luke warm treacle, well that’s what my scribbled notes seemed to say when I woke in a haze on Sunday morning. Thankfully a shower, food and a quick scroll through my camera helped to focus my mind, and memories of Los Cristianos bars formed a semi orderly queue.

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Ice Rinks, Protected Lizards and Carnaval in Tenerife News of the Week

Posted on November 23, 2010December 8, 2010
byJack Montgomery

Carnaval in Santa Cruz increasingly seems to come with a doom and gloom addendum. A couple of years ago it was some residents acting as party poopers, this week Tenerife’s president, Ricardo Melchior warned of potential deaths during carnaval…

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