Life Springs Eternal in Tenerife, Or So It Seems.
I predicted this would happen back in April, but I couldn’t have known just how true my words would ring. Despite it being less than five months since the theft of the avocado tree, the […]
I predicted this would happen back in April, but I couldn’t have known just how true my words would ring. Despite it being less than five months since the theft of the avocado tree, the […]
I’ve never seen anything like it. Surely it’s not of this world. It’s the sort of bizarrely beautiful creation that you’d imagine the Na’vi in Avatar would eat. […]
In the distance a cockerel completes his dawn duties with a final throaty bugle call. There’s silence for a few seconds before two doves take up the early morning chorus, cooing loudly from the top of the pine tree. […]
You’d think that a place like Tenerife would be blessed with picturesque fishing harbours…but there are surprisingly few that I’d term truly picturesque. […]
Following the conquest of Tenerife in 1496 the Guanches were, like many conquered indigenous races at that time, more or less decimated and their existence on Tenerife gradually dwindled away until they simply ceased to exist. Ironically in recent years, the Guanches have been elevated to superstar status… […]
It’s the sort of thing you might expect to see around Veronica’s at 1am on a Saturday night, not outside a bar in quiet north Tenerife village on a Sunday… […]
Guachinches are rough ‘n’ ready makeshift restaurants that are often set up in someone’s garage, but they can pretty much turn up anywhere – in the middle of banana plantations, in someone’s courtyard, in gardens. […]
It’s important to understand the types of towns and villages that exist on Tenerife. To do that we need to break the island into geographical sections… […]
Puerto de la Cruz has the reputation (in Britain) of being a quiet Tenerife resort with a Canarian atmosphere and I understand exactly where this comes from. If visitors… […]
Much of Tenerife’s history is the stuff of adventure stories – legends, pirates, epic battles between primitives and a European army, adventurers, sea battles, eruptions, plagues, floods, hurricanes, beautiful princesses, gallant soldiers, explorers, Nelson, Drake, love, betrayal and bravery. […]
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