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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Shifting Sands, Celebrities
She was one of the Daily Express’s top 5 women of the year in 1936. In 1972, she owned a small apartment in the Avenida Aparthotel yet very few people, including me, knew who she was.
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Shifting Sands, Tenerife in the 1970s
Tenerife 1972 – Seven Peseta Island. Dorada Pilsner was 7 pesetas a bottle if you stood at the bar, 10 pesetas at a table. I never did find out the price if you stood on a table. Local cigarettes with black tobacco which allegedly made them healthier – 7 pesetas a pack…
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Investigating Memories of the Past in La Orotava and Puerto de la Cruz
Compelling detective stories usually begin with a crime; often a heinous murder. Thankfully this one doesn’t. It begins with a clue – Guy Attwood from A A H 1898…
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Following in the Footsteps of Britain’s Victorian Explorers on Tenerife: Part 2
He was keen to scale the peak even though it was March and he’d been advised that at this time “˜furious winds threaten to sweep away intruders like dry leaves’ …
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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Holding the Fort in Tenerife
It has always struck me that, for an island which for much of its history has held such a strategically important position on the world trade map, there are precious few castles on Tenerife, save for those that plop out of buckets and have flags stuck in them until the tide comes and washes them away[…]
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Cologan, A Name That Speaks Volumes In Tenerife And Ireland
The packed hall of the Presidencia del Gobierno in Santa Cruz was a fitting reflection of the Irish integration into Tenerife life. The 200 seats were soon snapped up and…
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Hermano Pedro, the Goatherd who Changed the World
Born in 1626 in Chasna, now Vilaflor, the first half of Hermano Pedro’s life was spent herding goats between Vilaflor and an isolated cave near El Médano.
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