Tenerife Business’s Set A Red Hot Record At InganeYami Golf Tournament
It wasn’t just organizers Pearly Grey Ocean Club that raised the standard higher than ever at the fifth Ingane Yami Golf Tournament on Saturday 19 July 2014. The Golf Costa…
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Kiteboarding, Sporting Fun With Strings Attached
Catching the wind is difficult and riding the surf isn’t exactly easy, put them together and it’s enough to test body and mind to the limit. El Medano has long been a hot bed of this growing extreme sport but when the PKRA Master Cup and Spanish Championship arrived…
El Médano Gears up for the PWA World Tour
El Médano’s trademark winds and surf dude ambience are preparing for some insane aerial acrobatics and slick wave riding from the world’s most extreme sailors as the PWA (Professional Windsurfers Association) World Tour gets underway …
East Docks With West For Yuri Gagarin At Space Station Starmus
Not pop or sports stars but astronauts, these were the heroes inspiring two young boys to wear NASA space suits at the Starmus Festival at the Magma Arts and Congress centre in Playa de Las Americas, Tenerife.
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Apollo Astronauts Leave Starmus Festival Star Struck
Liquid oxygen venting into the blackness of space, two of three fuel cells dead, and heading for the moon 200,000 miles from Earth, the phrase “Houston, we have a problem” has to be the understatement of all time…
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The Corpus Christi Red Carpet on Tenerife
It’s June 1936. Francisco Franco is Governor General of the Canary Islands and is in La Orotava watching the Corpus Christi procession as it passes over the floral works of art. Well known as a dissenter, Franco has been posted to the furthest and quietest outreach of Spanish governance…
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The Alternative Live Music Scene in Tenerife, FMAC 2011
Vegas lounge crooners, tribute acts and stars who made it big in the eighties are all very nice, but what is there for those of us staying in or visiting Tenerife who get a buzz from vibrantly fresh and original live music?
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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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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Queen Elizabeth, New Ace In The Cunard Pack
She may not be the biggest ship to drop anchor in Tenerife this year, or even this month, but when it comes to regal splendour the newly launched Queen Elizabeth sits crown and shoulders above her rivals…