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Shifting Sands, Celebrities

  • Posted on August 9, 2012September 17, 2014
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  • byKen Fisher
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

  • Posted on July 9, 2012June 26, 2017
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  • byKen Fisher
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

  • Posted on May 4, 2012June 27, 2017
  • byJack Montgomery
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

  • Posted on February 16, 2011March 14, 2011
  • byJack Montgomery
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’ …
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Following in the Footsteps of Victorian Explorers on Tenerife: Part 1

  • Posted on February 3, 2011March 7, 2011
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  • byJack Montgomery
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

  • Posted on January 25, 2011February 22, 2011
  • byAndy Montgomery
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

  • Posted on October 30, 2010November 23, 2010
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  • byColin Kirby
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

  • Posted on September 30, 2010October 21, 2010
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  • byJack Montgomery
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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A Very British Defeat, Tenerife Honours The Full Nelson

  • Posted on July 14, 2010August 1, 2010
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  • byColin Kirby
He came, he saw, albeit with one eye, but never conquered. Admiral Horacio Nelson suffered the loss of his right arm and 226 of his men but is still held…
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Santa Cruz Bullring, Still Defiant And Undefeated

  • Posted on April 22, 2010May 14, 2010
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  • byColin Kirby
Eyes blazing, nostrils flared and hoofs stamping, well that’s sales season in Santa Cruz but away from the big modern department stores a piece of history and tradition is peeling…
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