Just over a decade ago I set up a Tripadvisor account for one specific reason. I was tired of the amount of misinformation about Tenerife being posted on the travel site, especially in relation to the differences between the weather in the south of the island and the north. A 10C variation in temperatures between the two sides of the island was regularly being quoted...
How many months of the year can you find snow on Mount Teide? It’s not uncommon to read in travel articles, blogs, and travel company websites that El Teide is snow-capped all year round. It isn’t. Writers often use online sources for information and once someone gets it wrong there can be a domino effect with the same misinformation appearing over and...
The natural side of Tenerife on the other had can hold its own with any number of destinations. The diverse landscape means you get a wide range of contrasting views within a small geographical area.
Sunset in Santa Cruz in the east of the island is generally a bit of a damp squib, it just gets dark. Further south west or north west, is where you want to be to bask in the last exuberant glows before the golden orb slips below the surface of the sea
There are a couple of memorable ways to get stars in your eyes in Teide National Park. One of them is to go on a stargazing and tapas trip to Mount Teide. On a chilly November early evening we huddled around the lower cable car station with a group of travel writers from across Europe waiting to take a trip with a difference up Teide . We’ve walked up the...
How can you tell the difference between a travel article/blog by a writer who has visited the places on Tenerife they've written about and one by someone who hasn't?
There is a wonderful network of miradores across Tenerife. These are specially constructed viewpoints which open up the landscape and wow scenery to anyone who goes exploring on four wheels.
We had four days to show a filmmaker as much of the best of the north of Tenerife as we could fit in. The film, commissioned by slow travel specialists Inntravel, will be a promotional video for the Canary Islands.
The mountain dominates Teide National Park. It dominates much of Tenerife, in fact it dominates the Canary Islands. The scene which brings people to a halt on islands like La Gomera and Gran Canaria is as likely to be Tenerife's Mount Teide...
A bit of a hornet's nest has been stirred up after it was announced there could be some 'charges' introduced for visiting Teide National Park from 2016.