The Other Side of Tenerife
When someone says they’re going on holiday to Tenerife what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Do you think of package holidays and Brits abroad? This is the reputation…
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Garachico
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Easter Traditions
I have made several attempts in the past to understand why the dates of Easter vary year on year, after all, surely the date of Christ’s death and his resurrection are known and can be commemorated annually?
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Hot Spring Weather & the Bus Ride from Hell in Tenerife News of the Week
Icod de los Vinos doesn’t exactly boast a multitude of attractions to keep tourists in the town for any length of time. The famous Millennium Drago Tree attracts tourists but mainly in a whistle stop tour manner. Then there’s El Mariposario, the Butterfly Garden…
Top Ten-erife Days Out
Tenerife may be one of the world’s most popular winter sun getaways, but when the novelty of lying half naked on the beach while the folks back home are shivering in their boots wears off, where can you go to see something more than sun, sand, sea and theme parks?
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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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Classic Toyota Car Festival
Title: Classic Toyota Car Festival Location: The Esplanade, GarachicoDescription: Family, sports, big and small, if it’s a Toyota it will be heading for Garachico on Sunday 22 August. From 10am…
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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Best of the Fests – Festival of the Whale & Moto Rock
Eco Warriors vs Rock Rockers – the battle of the sounds. We suspect there’s a mysterious hippy community lurking around the north of Tenerife […]