About Tenerife
Rediscovering Real Life in the Real Tenerife
Palm trees backed by the velvety La Orotava slopes create an inspiring frame that draws us upwards and onwards passing weeds with delicate blooms… […]
Life
About Tenerife
We Stare at the Rain
We watch random rivulets tracing an unsure path down the smooth glass. We marvel as a spout of water arcs triumphantly from the red tiled roof onto a patch… […]
About Tenerife
A Memento of Meeting Locals in Tenerife
Buenavista is another north western Tenerife town that stays off the tourist radar despite having some charming parts and a pretty town centre. […]
About Tenerife
The Aftermath of Forest Fires on Tenerife
I’d forgotten that something as destructive as a forest fire could occasionally through up surprises in its wake until last week when we went to Erjos to check out the damage to a walking route… […]
About Tenerife
Forest Fires on Tenerife, Tales of Bravery and Buffoonery
And then the forest on the other side of the valley in front of us simply exploded.
It was a shocking sight to witness and it rammed home two things… […]
About Tenerife
Strange Sunsets in the North of Tenerife
There’s been a strange light to the dusk sky in the north of Tenerife the last couple of evenings; a haze that turns the sun into a fiery ball long before it should. […]
Life
Finding Haggis on Tenerife Shows The Island’s Different Faces
How can anyone not like haggis? It’s full of flavours that dance a spiced up Highland Fling on your tongue. I’d forgotten how good it actually tasted. […]
Life
Life Springs Eternal in Tenerife, Or So It Seems.
I predicted this would happen back in April, but I couldn’t have known just how true my words would ring. Despite it being less than five months since the theft of the avocado tree, the […]
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. […]
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… […]