Even though the sending of telegraphs began in 1837, by 1880 on Tenerife and the Canary Islands if you wanted to communicate with anyone overseas the only way to do so was by sending mail by ship.
Even though the sending of telegraphs began in 1837, by 1880 on Tenerife and the Canary Islands if you wanted to communicate with anyone overseas the only way to do so was by sending mail by ship.
I could write a list of a hundred Tenerife sculptures I like, but instead I'll list the ten which are my favourites... at the moment.
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.
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.
These six photos were taken from one of the driving routes we put together for the book which explores the nooks and crannies of the north west of Tenerife...
When a Canarian friend commented: 'Tenerife isn't as pretty as mainland Spain' a couple of years ago, we tried to defend the place.
“What about Garachico...