Let's get one thing straight, the closing parade in Santa Cruz, Tenerife isn't actually the end of carnival. It's a technicality, a religious thing to do with giving things up for Lent on Shrove Tuesday...
Let's get one thing straight, the closing parade in Santa Cruz, Tenerife isn't actually the end of carnival. It's a technicality, a religious thing to do with giving things up for Lent on Shrove Tuesday...
Barely hours after the gala for Election of the Carnaval Queen was over we were back in Santa Cruz and in the gardens of the Hotel Mencey to interview...
It is the resort with the most envious views on Tenerife. Los Gigantes is in a beautiful location. On one side are the towering cliffs that gave the resort its name and out to sea is the island of La Gomera...
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.
With fishing village roots, Los Cristianos still has a Canarian heart. It feels like a town and not purpose built. And it tries very hard to be a 'barrier free paradise' by making its attractions accessible to everyone.
The design was conceived as a ‘balanced space with no walls or fortresses, within which its citizens could live peaceably together’ and was the first, non-fortified, Spanish Colonial town.
This was something new, something I had never seen nor heard before. Matt Elliott was layering his music as he created it – slowing his vocals down, speeding them up...
Visitors who don't posess a good guide to Santa Cruz and who stick to the port area are probably unlikely to accidentally stumble on Plaza de los Patos as it's tucked away in the streets inland from Plaza España.
If you want evidence of why we're concerned about the potential damage blog trips to Tenerife can cause if not thought through properly, read on...and weep.
We sat on our terrace-sized wooden balcony lapping up the heady scent of the pines that surrounded us. Dusk was falling, creating a soft lilac light above the forest canopy and the lights around the Hotel Spa Villalba's gardens illuminated...