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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The Arts
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A Splash Of Prado Colour And History On A Santa Cruz Canvas
One click and you have captured the essence of a person or a family group, and if it doesn’t please you it’s gone in an instant. That’s the modern easy…
Traveller, Making The Blues Feel Right At Home
No one would ever moan at Whiskey, the lead singer of Traveller, for sitting down on the job, it’s the natural position to pluck a unique acoustic twang from a…
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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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Presents Galore at the Pinolere Craft Fair
Pinolere is one of the biggest and most enchanting craft fairs on Tenerife and is located on the slopes of a hill so steep that just getting from the car to the pavement requires steely thighs and a supply of oxygen.
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Open your Heart to the Corazones de Tejina
One of the tastiest and most colourful of fiestas on Tenerife is celebrated on the last Sunday in August in a town above the north coast that very few visitors know even exists.
The Replay On A Rising Musical Tide In Tenerife
Scottish voices, covers of The Kinks, The Arctic Monkeys and even Britney Spears caught many evening beach front strollers by surprise. Some typical Tenerife non advertising meant that The Replay…
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Fireballs Rain Down on Garachico
At somewhere between 10 and 11pm SantÃsimo Cristo de la Misericordia was paraded through the streets, the town was plunged into darkness and the beach set alight. Spectacular enough in itself, but the real show was only just beginning[…]
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Finding Traditional Tenerife at the Dia de la Trilla
Across much of Tenerifed, the land is farmed using agricultural practices that haven’t changed greatly in a hundred years. The Dia de la Trilla celebrates some of the most ingenious of these[…]
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Simply Red in Tenerife ““ Simply Sensational
After Elton, Rod and Alicia (let’s not mention Whitney), it was the turn of Manchester’s Mick Hucknall to show Tenerife whether he could still turn on that old magic which shot him to stardom in the 80s […]