Food & Drink
Something Different, Review of Andana Beach Club in Puerto de la Cruz
From the moment we first set eyes on the menu at Andana Beach Club behind Playa Jardín in Puerto de la Cruz we were keen to try it out. […]
Tenerife
Life
Learning to Live With Lizards on Tenerife
We have at least four types who inhabit the same space as us. The Tenerife lagarto (lovely markings), copper coloured skinks with a metallic sheen, a small striped lizard and the nocturnal geckos… […]
About Tenerife
Scenes of Isla Baja, Tenerife’s Secret Corner
As secrets go, Isla Baja in the north west of Tenerife isn’t a well kept one. Well, it is and it isn’t. Millions of visitors to Tenerife will have visited one of Isla Baja’s treasures. […]
Hotels
Magnificently Mexican, Review of Hotel Villa Cortes in Playa de las Americas
The Hotel Europe Villa Cortes is a wonderfully exuberant blast of Mexican vivacity in a luxurious upmarket package. I’ll make no bones about it, I love its fun and funky style. […]
Culture
Noche en Blanco 2015 in Puerto de la Cruz
If you’re near Puerto de la Cruz on the eve of 17 October we’d really recommend going to the Noche en Blanco which takes place throughout the town from 6pm till 2 the following morning. […]
About Tenerife
Baby It’s Cold Outside on Tenerife
On the facebook page for a shopping centre in the south of Tenerife they’ve just printed a photo of a model wearing a long suede coat with the caption ‘it’s getting colder outside’.
It’s getting colder outside – in a week where we’ve hardly been able to sleep because it’s been so hot… […]
Gardens
Parks and Gardens on Tenerife, Los Lavaderos in El Sauzal
It’s been around for centuries, existing as an old communal laundry where the women of El Sauzal and neighbouring towns came to do their washing and no doubt catch up on the local hot gossip. […]
About Tenerife
The Different Faces of Tenerife at Night
We’ve written before about Tenerife after dark and that to get to know a town, you have to experience what it’s like when the sun toddles off to bed. […]
About Tenerife
How to Have an Authentic Tenerife Experience
We were asked a question on Twitter this week that got me thinking. It was along the lines of ‘any suggestions for an authentic Tenerife experience?’ […]
About Tenerife
The Miraculous Sister María de Jesús
Lying in a sarcophagus in the Convento de Santa Catalina in La Laguna is the 284 year old body of a nun, and one day a year on the 15th February, thousands of people wait […]