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PKRA Kiteboarding World Tour 2010, El Médano, Tenerife

Posted on August 15, 2010September 7, 2010
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byAndy Montgomery

They say “it’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good” and while much of Tenerife broiled in the excessive calima heat … the wind catchers of El Médano pumped up their kites and took to their boards.

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Finding Rural Tenerife in Santiago del Teide

Posted on August 10, 2010August 31, 2010
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byAndy Montgomery

I”M in the heart of rural Tenerife in a hamlet that, were there to be such a competition, would surely be a prize winner in the Island’s most picturesque village ““ Santiago del Teide.

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Los Gigantes, Living Without The Beach

Posted on August 4, 2010September 7, 2011
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byColin Kirby

Spectacular and dangerous, they often go hand in hand, something that Los Gigantes became painfully aware of on 1st November 2009 when part of the steep rock face above the…

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Top Ten-erife Beaches

Posted on August 3, 2010August 20, 2010
byAndy Montgomery

Tenerife has invested a great deal of time and money in the importing, sifting and general manicuring of sand to create beaches which, whilst they may not be the best in the world, are exceedingly pleasant places to be[…]

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Beaches

El Médano, Chilling Out And Defying The Political Storm

Posted on July 28, 2010August 13, 2010
byColin Kirby

Wind and sea erosion sound like good reasons to worry but in El Médano they take everything in their stride and find the positives. A walk along the wooden slatted…

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Theme Parks

Pueblo Chico ““ Small in Scale, Big on Fun

Posted on June 30, 2010July 19, 2010
byAndy Montgomery

There’s a commotion in the road. The roller-skating girl just let her dog run in front of a pizza delivery boy on a bike almost garrotting him with the lead…

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Nature

Don’t Look Down? It’s Hard To Resist On Roque del Conde

Goats eh, bit dim aren’t they? Well it seemed that way to me. Down in the depths of Barranco del Ancon, and on the way to Roque del Conde, I…

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Keep the Blue Flag Flying- Tenerife’s Award Winning Beaches

Posted on June 3, 2010June 26, 2010
byAndy Montgomery

Yesterday the International Environmental Blue Flag Programme gave its verdict on awards for 2010 and the Canary Islands received 34 of the prestigious flags for its beaches and 3 for its ports[…]

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A Volcano on the Doorstep ““ Mount Teide; a Curse or a Gift?

Mention volcanoes and what do many people visualise? Possibly an angry mountain spewing out rivers of molten lava and turning the skies black with billowing clouds of gloomy smoke[…]

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Street Gardening ““ The Corpus Christi Flower Carpets

Posted on May 20, 2010June 14, 2010
byAndy Montgomery

Ever since Leonor del Castillo y Monteverde decided in 1847 that it might be a nice idea to put some petals on the ground outside her house for the evening Corpus Christi procession to walk over […]

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