Posted in Friends, Life, People, Spain, Travel, tagged construction, La Gomera, Los Acevinos, mountains, rural, Spain, Tenerife on October 31, 2007 | No Comments »
“That’s where I want my fridges to go” says Jo, pointing to the metre and a half high mound of volcanic rock, old concrete, rubble and compacted earth that forms the floor of her new shed.
“So we need to level it out”. She hands me a pickaxe, a pair of goggles and some gloves and [...]
Posted in Life, Puerto de la Cruz, Spain, Tenerife, Travel, tagged Tenerife, Puerto de la Cruz, Mount Teide, San Francisco, Russian, Africa, forests, volcano, crater, tropical, beaches, movies, robot, BBC, Mars, American, pioneers, Wild West, film, The Passenger on October 24, 2007 | No Comments »
It may come as a bit of a surprise to the citizens of San Francisco, but for a few days last week, San Francisco moved its geographical location from America’s west coast to an island a couple of hundred kilometres off the coast of Africa.
I can’t understand why Tenerife isn’t considered a prime location by [...]
Posted in Friends, Life, Party, People, Puerto de la Cruz, Spain, Tenerife, Travel, tagged Buda Bar, champagne, Cindarella, fairy godmother, Living Tenerife, Party, Puerto de la Cruz, Sean Coward, Spain, storm warning, Tenerife, thunder and lightening, weather on October 16, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Invitations for the ball had been despatched and, although we didn’t actually receive one (office admin’ please note), our presence had been requested by Sean Coward, the Director of Living Tenerife magazine for which we’re regular contributors.
It was to be THE party of the year; a red carpet affair with 300 invited guests and double [...]
Posted in Life, Spain, Tenerife, Travel, tagged car, Driving, La Caldera, Mount Teide, Orotava, Tenerife on October 11, 2007 | No Comments »
The other day I was driving up to La Caldera, in the pine forest in the upper Orotava valley in a queue of painfully slow moving traffic. I’ve learnt over the last four years that when there’s a queue, just to chill out and enjoy the scenery and within a few minutes the reason will [...]
Posted in Life, Spain, Tenerife, Travel, tagged , anniversary, azucar, cervantes institute, cuentame como paso, manchester, mojito, salsa, spanish, Tenerife on October 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday was our fourth anniversary of moving to Tenerife and last night, over a celebratory €2.20 bottle of Cava (we’re not afraid to push the boat out when the occasion calls for it), we got to thinking about what we’d achieved.
Number 1: Speak Spanish.
Our one year’s worth of night school at the Cervantes Institute in [...]
Posted in Food, Friends, Life, People, Puerto de la Cruz, Spain, Tenerife, Travel, tagged vegetarian, piscitarian, La Gomera, El Mana, La Ranilla district, Puerto de la Cruz, Mil Sabores on October 3, 2007 | No Comments »
I used to be a vegetarian, (reading that statement back, it sounds as though I ought to add “but I’m better now” onto the end of it), so I know how tricky eating out in Spain can be when you don’t eat meat. My saving grace was that I ate fish.
I can hear vegetarians screaming [...]
