Posted in Life, People, Travel, tagged holidays, Tenerife, Tripadviser, vacations on September 28, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I’ve recently found myself ‘hooked’ on TripAdviser forums, scanning the entries for new questions or new responses to ongoing sagas.
Of late, we’ve had people asking where they can get ‘good English food’ when they’re in Tenerife, whether it’s true that there’s a Marks & Spencer in Santa Cruz de Tenerife and if so, where it [...]
Posted in Life, Travel, tagged Auditorio de Tenerife, Canary Islands, City, Parque Garcia Sanabria, Santa Cruz, Santiago Calatrava, Tenerife, trams on September 21, 2007 | No Comments »
A neighbour lent me a book entitled “The Canary Islands” which was written by Florence du Cane and illustrated by her sister, Ella. The book was published in 1911. In it, Florence describes her feelings on landing at Santa Cruz:
“…the utter hideousness of the capital of Teneriffe was a shock to me.”
I guess it’s fair [...]
Posted in Life, Travel, fiestas, tagged bohemian, Canary Islands, dragons, El Médano, Festival de Cometas, kite festival, Kite Festival of Granadilla, kiteboarders, mermaids, Playa de la Tejita, power kiters, sails, shark, Spain, Tenerife, windsurfers, windy on September 11, 2007 | 2 Comments »
You know you’re in the vicinity of El Médano on Tenerife’s southern coast the moment you open the car doors to get out; if the passenger opens their door at the same time as you, a rush of warm air takes everything inside that isn’t actually fastened down and sends it spiralling out in a [...]
Posted in Food, Travel, fiestas on September 1, 2007 | No Comments »
One of the really cool things about the north of Tenerife is that it’s so easy to access loads of the island’s fiestas and ferías. Today I went to Pinolere in the hills above La Orotava to the annual craft fair which is dedicated to ‘that which the sea brings to our shores’. It’s a [...]
