The hill town of Santiago del Teide is, to put it bluntly, a mess. Despite nestling in one of Tenerife’s most picturesque valleys, it is not a particularly nice environment. Not at the moment anyway. And that’s because of the Anillo Insular. The Anillo Insular The Anillo Insular is a ring road linking the south and north of Tenerife via the west of the island rather...
‘That’s not Mexico,’ I exclaimed. The location at the start of BBC’s Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue was instantly identifiable. ‘That’s Abades on Tenerife.’ When I Googled it, AI disagreed, insisting only Gran Canaria appeared in the series, Jardín Canario de Viera y Clavijo to be exact. Not for the first time, nor the last, AI was wrong. The leper village that...
For the last few years, The Real Tenerife website has been virtually rotting on the vine. We didn’t outright abandon it, but we certainly neglected it. There were several reasons for this. One was we left Tenerife for Portugal in 2017. Another was that we grew so weary of other writers using our experiences and knowledge as a resource without crediting us (it brings...
There was a scene in Celebrity Traitors where Scottish actor Mark Bonnar took a step away from his fellow celebs and eyed them suspiciously, trying to work out who the traitorous rogues in the pack were. In a world where misinformation, misdirection, and fake news are rife, it’s more important than ever that we all do a ‘Mark Bonnar’ every so often. Take the news...
In our A to Z of Tenerife Part 1 we included a diverse range of things we like and find interesting about Tenerife, from a leper village to its colourful, and sometimes spicy, sauces. Part 2, N to Z includes a famous English admiral, an other-worldly flower, and the Canarian gastronomic speciality that everyone loves.
A couple of years ago A to Zs of travel destinations were all the rage so, even though I liked the idea, we kept away from doing one for Tenerife as, well, everybody seemed to be doing them.
At this time of year there are articles galore about carnival on Tenerife and many either get something wrong, or don't paint quite the full picture of what carnival means on the island.
I signed up to Tripadvisor in 2007 for one reason and one reason only. Its Tenerife forum was rife with misinformation. The biggest culprit was connected to the weather. When people asked about the difference in temperatures between north and south Tenerife, coastal temperatures were given for the south whilst for the north those given were taken from readings at...
Los Cristianos is traditional, Playa de las Américas is basically Sodom and Gomorrah, and Costa Adeje is swank and swish, the upmarket neighbour. There you go, that's the end of this article. Or it would be if those statements were accurate.
We always keep an eye out for whose names are on the awards list at the 2019 Diario de Avisos-Dorada Especial Gastronomy Awards Gala, an event which recognises innovation and passion in the world of food and drink in the Canary Islands.