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Floating On Air With The Helidream Sky Experience

Posted on January 21, 2013June 26, 2017
byColin Kirby

The wind socks were billowing down at the helipad but as we turned smoothly rising to 500 metres there was no buffeting, just smooth progress along the Adeje shoreline passing over Playa San Juan marina as it basked in the morning sunshine.

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Tenerife After The Winter Tourists Have Gone

Posted on January 15, 2013September 17, 2014
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byAndy Montgomery

When it comes to winter sun destinations, few places can top the magnetism of Tenerife but what happens to the island once Easter has faded into the wings?

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The British Match That Ignited The Spanish Civil War

Posted on December 27, 2012June 26, 2017
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byKen Fisher

As the latest Bond movie, Skyfall, continues to rake in revenue in US and UK box offices, Ken turns his Shifting Sands gaze to the real world of international espionage.…

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Life Through the Lens of Tenerife Landscape Photographer, Raico Rosenberg

Posted on December 3, 2012June 26, 2017
byAndy Montgomery

For a special Christmas and New Year treat, Tenerife Magazine caught up with Raico Rosenberg, Tenerife’s sensational landscape photographer whose images have occasionally graced our Facebook page, leaving us all open-mouthed in wonder.

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A Remarkable Family on Tenerife

Posted on November 16, 2012June 26, 2017
byKen Fisher

During the summer of 1915 Alexander Baillon met Dr. Earnest Hooton, an anthropologist, who had been sent to Tenerife by the Peabody Museum of Cambridge, USA to collect and bring back some Guanche remains…

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Tenerife’s Golden Age of Cabaret

Posted on October 16, 2012June 26, 2017
byKen Fisher

Following up my mention of Go Pontinental in my last article, I was pointed in the direction of Eastenders star Polly Perkins who plays Rose Cotton, Dot Cotton’s sister.

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Shifting Sands, The London Boys

Posted on September 12, 2012September 17, 2014
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byKen Fisher

Whilst we lotus eaters in the north were living the dream, Lewisham born Tom Keating was slaving away at the easel in his villa in the southern village of Vilaflor (above) happily churning out Samuel Palmer pastiches.

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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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Sell Gomera to the Germans & Spain’s Most Popular Park in Tenerife News of the Week

Posted on July 4, 2012September 17, 2014
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byJack Montgomery

It feels appropriate that Spain’s highest mountain sits at the top of a list of its most popular National Parks. In second place is the stunning Picos de Europa in Northern Spain whilst Lanzarote’s Timanfaya…

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Destination Lanzarote

In the third of our series of holiday destinations that are easily accessible from Tenerife, we take flight to the Eastern Canary Island of Lanzarote…

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