We've written before about Tenerife after dark and that to get to know a town, you have to experience what it's like when the sun toddles off to bed.
We've written before about Tenerife after dark and that to get to know a town, you have to experience what it's like when the sun toddles off to bed.
We were asked a question on Twitter this week that got me thinking. It was along the lines of 'any suggestions for an authentic Tenerife experience?'
Lying in a sarcophagus in the Convento de Santa Catalina in La Laguna is the 284 year old body of a nun, and one day a year on the 15th February, thousands of people wait in line to see it. This is the body of Sister María de Jesús de León y Delgado. Not the bones, not the skeleton, but the body, more perfectly preserved than any Guanche mummy. Except that this body...
We've wanted to eat in Tierra de Jamon since it opened. Places with rows of hanging hams always appeal. They've got that old school Spanish tasca look about them...
Researching a short article about film locations on Tenerife revealed the Star Wars and Planet of the Apes claims were tall tales, probably spun by tour guides...
How can you easily spot the difference between a Tenerife, or any Canary Island, town which has a strong local community and one which doesn't? By the plaza... or lack of.
For anyone who doesn't know what a guachinche is, here's an explanation. We're regular visitors to these uniquely northern Tenerife eating and drinking joints.