Life
Fight Outside Bar in North Tenerife
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… […]
Month: August 2011
About Tenerife
Eating in Tenerife, Going Native in a Guachinche
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. […]
About Tenerife
A Brief Guide to Towns, Villages & Resorts on Tenerife
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… […]
Food & Drink
Puerto de la Cruz for Travellers and Puerto de la Cruz for Tourists
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… […]
About Tenerife
Ten Fascinating Facts About Tenerife’s History
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. […]
Life
Bread Deliveries on Tenerife
This is one of those little things that always makes me smile whenever I see it. You tend to find it in the more traditional towns around Tenerife… […]
Fiestas
A Pig in a Pick-up at the Dia de la Trilla
Dia de la Trilla is a small, agricultural fiesta that celebrates the traditional methods for threshing wheat, including the use of horses and teams of oxen dragging a threshing board. […]