Carnival on Tenerife, GüÃmar
Surely the best carnival poster on Tenerife and enough to warrant a visit the town of the mysterious pyramids for their celebrations.
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Carnival Dates in Santa Cruz 2011
The biggest, brashest and most bouncing celebrations are held in Tenerife’s capital city, Santa Cruz.
Carnaval Costumes on Tenerife
What is it about the British psyche that makes us so reluctant to do anything that could be construed as making us look or sound silly? We don’t easily slip into alter egos, unlike many of our European cousins who don a wig and high heels at the slightest hint of an excuse.
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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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Robert Capa, A Snapshot Of War, Showing In Santa Cruz
Dodging bullets at the Normandy landings on D Day, caught in the middle of the Spanish Civil War, and wading through the carnage of the London blitz, it’s the sort of CV that attracts medals but for Robert Capa it was all about getting a history defining photo
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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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San Antonio Unites The Arona Party Animals
Ignoring several china shops the oxen rampaged through Arona town, well maybe rampaged is putting it strongly, they looked pretty docile despite being tethered in pairs and led up the street […]
Watch Los Tres Reyes (The Three Kings) Parade, La Orotava 2011
Tenerife Magazine was in the beautiful old quarter of La Orotava to film the arrival of the Tres Reyes (Three Kings).
In La Orotava, as in many places on Tenerife, the Three Kings arrive on camels and this year Balthazar got a bit of a scare […]
In La Orotava, as in many places on Tenerife, the Three Kings arrive on camels and this year Balthazar got a bit of a scare […]
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Chestnuts and the Fiesta of San Andrés on Tenerife
November is the month of the castaña (chestnut) on Tenerife and whereas in Britain chestnut season means epic conker battles and bruised knuckles, on Tenerife activities have more than a hint of a Charles Dickens’ Christmas about them[…]
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