A couple of years ago we interviewed the king of Tenerife's carnival queen costumes, designer Leo Martinez. Arranging to meet Leo was like arranging to meet a spy.
A couple of years ago we interviewed the king of Tenerife's carnival queen costumes, designer Leo Martinez. Arranging to meet Leo was like arranging to meet a spy.
Each year we go on a belen hunt on Tenerife. Hunt is maybe a bit of an exaggeration as there are hundreds of them across the island...
All we really knew about Benijos at that time was that it produced excellent cheese. When we headed off the main road to Mount Teide and into quiet, rural...
Candelaria on the evening of the 14 August is mental. I knew it was going to be busy, these big fiestas always are, I just didn't expect it to be as busy.
As well as beach parties and dunking goats, there's another pretty little tradition to welcome in summer in Puerto de la Cruz on Tenerife – Enrame de Chorros.
To celebrate the Noche de San Juan there are beach parties and events organised in lots of towns and villages on Tenerife...
Every year Corpus Christi in a La Orotava draws tens of thousands of visitors. To see the best of the carpets, it helps to know how the whole thing works...
The warm and fuzzy scene in La Caldera was so appealing that it tempted us to forego our jaunt in the forest and simply park ourselves at a bench...
To truly understand carnival on Tenerife you have to surrender yourself to a week of unleashed hedonism that will have its wicked way with you before...
After doing all the official events at the carnival in Santa Cruz last year, we decided to stay in Puerto de la Cruz this year and concentrate more on the wilder...