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Which Travel Companies Tell the Truth About Tenerife’s Resorts?

Posted on October 21, 2011June 12, 2018
byJack Montgomery

We thought it might be interesting and fun to compare a selection of descriptions of resorts on Tenerife by some of the UK’s top travel names to see how well they compare with reality.

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Top Ten Picturesque Towns on Tenerife

Posted on September 9, 2011September 9, 2011
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byJack Montgomery

There are plenty of towns across the island that boast picturesque quarters and charming old streets filled with some lovely examples of colonial architecture. These are ten of the most picturesque of these to be found on Tenerife.

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Destination Costa Brava

The coast is classic Mediterranean with sigh-inducing cove after cove of azure waters lapping beaches backed by scented pines. Inland, rolling hills surround perfectly preserved medieval towns and villages.

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Resort Report, Puerto de la Cruz

Banana plants, palm trees, laurel, bougainvillea, frangipani, hibiscus… like Alice in Wonderland after a swig of the ‘Drink Me’ bottle, they all grow at an alarming rate in Puerto de la Cruz giving it a lush, tropical identity that separates it from the south of Tenerife by more than just distance.

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Tenerife Resort Report, Los Cristianos

Posted on April 7, 2011
byJack Montgomery

Just over fifty years ago Los Cristianos was still a small fishing village, then a Swedish broadcaster suffering from MS found its climate had curative effects, shared his discovery with the world and the rest, as they say, is history

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Following in the Footsteps of Victorian Explorers on Tenerife: Part 1

When Richard and Isabel arrived in Santa Cruz, Yellow Fever was raging in the capital and the couple made straight for La Laguna in a rickety stagecoach which Isabel described as “˜the skeleton of the first vehicle that was ever made’…

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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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Checking into Arona Gran Hotel

Posted on October 1, 2010October 25, 2010
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byAndy Montgomery

The Arona Gran Hotel sits in its privileged position overlooking her domain like some grand old dowager and as much a part of Los Cristianos” life as ferry trips and full English.
Last weekend Tenerife Magazine checked in for a weekend of golf, nightlife and an unexpected […]

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Open your Heart to the Corazones de Tejina

Posted on August 31, 2010September 27, 2010
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byJack Montgomery

One of the tastiest and most colourful of fiestas on Tenerife is celebrated on the last Sunday in August in a town above the north coast that very few visitors know even exists.

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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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