Hotels
Win a Holiday in a 5 Star Hotel on Tenerife
The prize in our latest holiday competition on TenerifeMagazine.com involves a stay at the 5 star Costa Adeje Gran Hotel in, obviously, Costa Adeje. […]
Articles by Jack
Fiestas
The Rhythm of the Nightlife in Puerto de la Cruz, Noche en Blanco
The idea of Noche en Blanco is to attract people into the town (that one clearly went over the heads of the tour reps) via live music, theatre, dance… […]
Food & Drink
The Dragon Fruit, the Most Striking Fruit on the Planet?
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. […]
Life
September Morn
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. […]
Guimar
Picturesque Harbours on Tenerife
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. […]
Culture
Discovering The Guanches in Tenerife
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… […]
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… […]
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… […]