To truly understand carnival on Tenerife you have to surrender yourself to a week of unleashed hedonism that will have its wicked way with you before...
To truly understand carnival on Tenerife you have to surrender yourself to a week of unleashed hedonism that will have its wicked way with you before...
After doing all the official events at the carnival in Santa Cruz last year, we decided to stay in Puerto de la Cruz this year and concentrate more on the wilder...
For visitors who want to get dressed up, get down and get slightly drunk with the locals type of carnival or maybe even just to experience the best parades...
Palm trees backed by the velvety La Orotava slopes create an inspiring frame that draws us upwards and onwards passing weeds with delicate blooms...
We never tire of visiting La Orotava, there are endless things to discover in Tenerife's most noble of towns.
We watch random rivulets tracing an unsure path down the smooth glass. We marvel as a spout of water arcs triumphantly from the red tiled roof onto a patch...
Tucked up a side street, Meson Los Gemelos is an inviting restaurant; leafy hanging ferns, a semi-open courtyard and rustic farming implements on whitewashed...
So, for the purpose of this exercise, these are the areas I'm referring to when pitting the south and north of Tenerife head to head in ten categories...
There's been a strange light to the dusk sky in the north of Tenerife the last couple of evenings; a haze that turns the sun into a fiery ball long before it should.
Next to me, three middle-aged Portuenses with faces the colour of my old Camel boots sang along badly to a Latino mix of I Will Survive that had...