At this time of year there are articles galore about carnival on Tenerife and many either get something wrong, or don't paint quite the full picture of what carnival means on the island.
At this time of year there are articles galore about carnival on Tenerife and many either get something wrong, or don't paint quite the full picture of what carnival means on the island.
I signed up to Tripadvisor in 2007 for one reason and one reason only. Its Tenerife forum was rife with misinformation. The biggest culprit was connected to the weather. When people asked about the difference in temperatures between north and south Tenerife, coastal temperatures were given for the south whilst for the north those given were taken from readings at...
Generally speaking, there are some areas where, for the same standards and quality we're used to in restaurants in many other parts of Tenerife, there's a premium to pay.
Over a two week period recently we ate at a number of restaurants in various areas of Tenerife. Did our findings match English language reviews on Tripadvisor? Here are the results.
We regularly say to enjoy a fully rounded flavour of Tenerife's towns/resorts it's important to experience them after darkness falls. We also urge people to research thoroughly before deciding where to stay on Tenerife...
Here’s how the conversation goes in our house when we’re planning a visit to any of our favourite restaurants where the cuisine is more of the imaginative kind. “I’m not having the degustación menu this time,” one of us will proclaim. “Let’s try something from the normal menu for a change.” We roll up at whatever...
Considering the great majority of people who visit Tenerife do so to spend (hot) chill out time on its coast you’d be forgiven for thinking there might not be a lot of quiet coastline left to explore. From Los Cristianos, tourist developments have continued to spread further west so that Los Cristianos, Playa de las Américas and the resorts of Costa Adeje are so...
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...
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.
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.