To Tenerife with Love: Then and Now
Now, on the eve of 2019, I’m preparing to return to a village on the north coast of Tenerife. With me will be my wife Viviana who has never set…
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How to Enjoy a Unique and Exclusive Excursion with Living Tenerife Tours
When people think of Tenerife, probably some of the first images that may spring to mind are sunshine, sandy beaches and the ocean. It’s also quite likely that they picture…
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State Visit will celebrate close royal and historic ties between the United Kingdom and Spain, says British Ambassador Simon Manley
The British Ambassador to Spain, Simon Manley, has welcomed the announcement of a State Visit to the United Kingdom from the 8th to the 10th of March 2016. “The British…
The Beatles on Tenerife
It was not until 15th October 1963 that the Daily Mirror introduced us to the word Beatlemania. Accordingly there was no Beatlemania in evidence when three of the boys, Paul, George and Ringo, holidayed in Puerto de la Cruz between 28th April and 9th May of that same year.
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Mrs Thatcher on Tenerife
Lady Thatcher (in constituency mode) and her husband Denis enthusiastically worked the rooms learning about the history of the Library and its ongoing important role in the life of the community.
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Poirot Meets the Saint on Tenerife
To escape her distress, in February 1927, Agatha Christie, accompanied by her daughter Rosalind and secretary Charlotte Fisher, arrived in Tenerife. Leslie Charteris spent the winter of 1935/36 in Tenerife researching for one of his Simon Templar novels.
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The British Match That Ignited The Spanish Civil War
As the latest Bond movie, Skyfall, continues to rake in revenue in US and UK box offices, Ken turns his Shifting Sands gaze to the real world of international espionage.…
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A Remarkable Family on Tenerife
During the summer of 1915 Alexander Baillon met Dr. Earnest Hooton, an anthropologist, who had been sent to Tenerife by the Peabody Museum of Cambridge, USA to collect and bring back some Guanche remains…
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Tenerife’s Golden Age of Cabaret
Following up my mention of Go Pontinental in my last article, I was pointed in the direction of Eastenders star Polly Perkins who plays Rose Cotton, Dot Cotton’s sister.
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Shifting Sands, The London Boys
Whilst we lotus eaters in the north were living the dream, Lewisham born Tom Keating was slaving away at the easel in his villa in the southern village of Vilaflor (above) happily churning out Samuel Palmer pastiches.
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