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“Why did they think that was going to work?” It’s a question we ask sometimes when we see a new venture where the venture isn’t in the slightest bit new at all. In our first summer on Tenerife we sat beside a young man in the Beehive Bar in Puerto de la Cruz. He and his wife had recently opened a bar, a Brit bar to be precise. It was in a local; business...
There are a couple of memorable ways to get stars in your eyes in Teide National Park. One of them is to go on a stargazing and tapas trip to Mount Teide. On a chilly November early evening we huddled around the lower cable car station with a group of travel writers from across Europe waiting to take a trip with a difference up Teide . We’ve walked up the...
Puerto de la Cruz is a three star town. The streets are dirty. The gardens are uncared for. And in ‘Puerto de la Cruz, parte de ti’ (part of you) it has a promotional slogan which doesn’t make any sense. Wow! I won’t be going to a place like that anytime soon, it sounds like a dump. Wait a minute… I live there. I don’t often read...
Trying to decide what we thought were the 10 most beautiful places on Tenerife was a harder task than we thought it would be. There are too many on the island.
This is the weather you can expect to find in both the north and south coasts of Tenerife during each month of the year.
We have a mental list of the restaurants in Tenerife we want to visit. Restaurants go on that list for all sorts of reasons.
We knew exactly where we were going to have lunch courtesy of a facebook post which had popped up in my feed the previous day – the Mercado de Nuestra Señora de Africa.
There are far more than 10 restaurants with impressive views on Tenerife, but these are some of our favourites.
When people ask about off the beaten track locations on Tenerife, they usually mean somewhere tranquil and rural, or a picturesque fishing village
One of the most unusual weather phenomena we experience on Tenerife is calima, when a sand and dust filled cloud is blown over from North Africa.