About Tenerife

Thar she blows, whale and dolphin watching on Tenerife

It can be frustrating to live on an island like Tenerife which is remarkable for many reasons, yet which more often than not is only viewed in how many sunshine hours there are in a day. There are any number of experiences which still cause excited butterflies in my stomach to flutter frantically. Every time we enter Teide National Park is one of them. The first...

The basics of business on Tenerife

“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...

Stargazing and tapas on Mount Teide

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...