Recently we were asked if it was possible to buy fresh fish anywhere on Tenerife. A visiting couple had been disappointed to find the 'fresh' fish on sale in restaurants where they were staying wasn't actually as fresh as they expected.
Recently we were asked if it was possible to buy fresh fish anywhere on Tenerife. A visiting couple had been disappointed to find the 'fresh' fish on sale in restaurants where they were staying wasn't actually as fresh as they expected.
I decided to have a look on Tripadvisor to see what it was about Tenerife landmarks that left some people cold. Some answers were baffling, and some gave me a laugh.
Forget fluffy bunnies, apart from those in a salmorejo sauce, or Easter egg hunts. Easter on Tenerife is still all about a decent man being paraded through the streets before being nailed to a cross.
Puerto de la Cruz is a good hunting ground for belenes, apart from some shops displaying them, there's always the equivalent of a belen one-stop shop in Casa Ventoso.
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.
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 in line to see it. This is the body of Sister María de Jesús de León y Delgado. Not the bones, not the skeleton, but the body, more perfectly preserved than any Guanche mummy. Except that this body...
How can you easily spot the difference between a Tenerife, or any Canary Island, town which has a strong local community and one which doesn't? By the plaza... or lack of.
What is generally thought of as tapas comes in a variety of sizes and occasionally with different names on Tenerife.
From war games to zombies and snooping to tippling, these are five of the most fun museums on Tenerife...
Similarly, after dark in Tenerife's towns and cities is a very different scene than during daylight hours. Even the island's cities feel small and intimate thanks...