Tenerife opens it’s heart to Haiti
The earthquake tragedy in Haiti has shocked the world and left everyone wondering what they can do to help. Many communities, nationalities and faiths have come together to offer help,…
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The Arts
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Guide to the Top Ten-erife Fiestas
It’s the start of a new year. Traditional Tinerfeño rainbow-coloured skirts are being ruffled, horses harnessed up and batucada drums beaten. The fiestas are about to start coming thick and fast and if you don’t want to miss out on Tenerife’s most exuberant, colourful and occasionally mind-boggling parties […]
Having a Beast of a Time at the Fiestas of San Antonio Abad
Have you ever noticed that there’s something missing from Tenerife’s countryside? Drive along winding lanes backed by eye-catching scenery and a nagging voice whispers that there’s something incomplete about the scenes of neatly tended terraces and sweeping valleys[…]
Rodin shares The Kiss and much more with Santa Cruz
He was pretty handy with a chisel that Rodin, just as well, or the Espacio Cultural Caja Canarias in Santa Cruz would just be displaying 7 tons of random bronze,…
The Monk, the Goats and the Wine.
La Montañeta del Fraile (the monk’s hill) is a volcanic cone on the eastern boundary of Los Realejos overlooking La Orotava and Puerto de la Cruz. On the summit, a small white Ermita stands, keeping a lonely vigil over the valley until […]
Poinsettias – Christmas is Blooming on Tenerife
December 12th is National Poinsettia Day.
Tradition dictates that you should give a poinsettia on that day and it gives us an excuse to feature this most enduring of Christmas icons which bring a splash of crimson delight to the festive season […]
Tradition dictates that you should give a poinsettia on that day and it gives us an excuse to feature this most enduring of Christmas icons which bring a splash of crimson delight to the festive season […]
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Ding Dung Merrily On High
Aah what a lovely nativity scene, there’s the manger, the shepherds, the bloke having a poo, the wise men ““ whoa rewind, did I really see that? I don’t care…
Tenerife Time Travel – The Guanche Giant
It is said that the more things change, the more they stay the same. It’s also true, that no matter how much we are separated by time, space or culture,…
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Santiago Del Teide’s Casa del Patio Opens its Doors
I was finally able to explore the tantalisingly lovely building that has been under restoration and off-limits for many years and that yesterday was finally opened to the public. Including a permanent exhibition to Chinyero’s eruption, it was a tardy but timely finish to the project[…]
The miracle of Chinyero
Chinyero in 1909, a miracle happened when the lava stopped short of El Calvario, Las Manchas