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… […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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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… […]
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Bread Deliveries on Tenerife
This is one of those little things that always makes me smile whenever I see it. You tend to find it in the more traditional towns around Tenerife… […]