For a relatively small island Tenerife is fortunate to boast two international airports, one in the south of the island and one in the north.
For a relatively small island Tenerife is fortunate to boast two international airports, one in the south of the island and one in the north.
La Orotava's flower carpets also benefits from having one of the most picturesque backdrops on Tenerife. Not only do you get those gorgeous colonial buildings, on a clear day Teide sits in the background.
It was our friend Jo who first mentioned the word 'bruma' to us, long before we moved to Tenerife. We were visiting her on La Gomera, sitting on her terrace on the edge of the Garajonay National Park in the sun, drinking beer and marvelling at views...
Rather than write another boring post about the reality of the weather across Tenerife I thought I'd just show you what walking on Tenerife has been like this winter.
The guachinche Richard Ayoade and Lena Dunham visited was one of the posher, more sanitised versions but the dishes they chose represented a good mix of the type of food regularly served in guachinches.
“Soy canario, no soy español.” “I’m Canarian, I’m not Spanish.” It’s something we’ve been proudly told countless times over the years in the Canary Islands. When the person saying it has referred to me as being English I usually respond with a counter “soy escocés, no soy inglés” (“I’m Scottish, I’m not English”) which usually...
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...
“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...
Whether you’re still in the flush of new love; have been together for more years than you were single; or are ready to move your relationship to the next level and pop the question, a romantic break in Tenerife adds a glowing dose of warm sunshine to help oil the love wheels. This is my pick of Tenerife’s most romantic hotels… Luxury If you can...
Trying to decide what we thought were the 10 most beautiful places on Tenerife was a harder task than we thought it would be. There are too many on the island.