About Tenerife
Choosing the right resort or town on the north coast of Tenerife
If, however, visitors want to experience the parts of Tenerife where most Canarios live, then it’s worth taking a closer look at towns along the north coast. […]
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Hotels
10 favourite hotel swimming pools on Tenerife
There are plenty of hotel swimming pools on Tenerife where architects have been allowed to let their imaginations off the leash. These are my ten personal favourites. […]
Food & Drink
Favourite places for tapas in Puerto de la Cruz
These are our favourite places in Puerto de la Cruz for tapas which, incidentally, is a great Tenerife location for attractive restaurants which have interesting tapas menus. […]
About Tenerife
Typical November weather on Tenerife
Let’s cut to the chase right away. You get bad weather in the Canary Islands during November. It’s virtually unavoidable. […]
About Tenerife
Choosing the right resort or town in the south and south west of Tenerife
A question often asked is “which resort on Tenerife would suit me best?” Unless you know someone and their preferences well, it’s an impossible question to answer. Before we decided where to set up home […]
About Tenerife
Boots and and big jackets on Tenerife
We’ve got masses of walking gear, but most of it was bought for hiking in the Canaries where, even in the coolest weather, a light fleece under a light rain jacket is far too hot for me. […]
About Tenerife
Tenerife is rubbish
A couple of weeks ago there was a damning report in the Spanish press about the state of Mesa Mota zona recreativo (picnic area) in La Laguna after a group of students left the area like a disaster area following a Saturday night al fresco party. […]
The Views
The sunset scene on Tenerife
Sunset in Santa Cruz in the east of the island is generally a bit of a damp squib, it just gets dark. Further south west or north west, is where you want to be to bask in the last exuberant glows before the golden orb slips below the surface of the sea […]
Tenerife Talk
Tripadvisor true or false, more questions about Tenerife
Every so often I like to take a look at some questions asked on the travel advisory site Tripadvisor to see how accurate the information being dished out is and whether users are being given good or flawed advice. […]
About Tenerife
Tenerife still isn’t a well known hiking destination
A review on our Walk this Way Tenerife guidebook questioned our claim that Tenerife was still not known as a walking destination. When we initially wrote the book, despite there being plenty of other walking […]