Tenerife After The Winter Tourists Have Gone
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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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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The X Factor
Whatever the X factor is, this stunning two-bedroom home in Chayofa has it by the bucket load. Lovingly renovated by its owners, Arthur and Sue.
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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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