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The Circus Comes to Tenerife

Posted in People, Puerto de la Cruz, Spain, Tenerife, Travel, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I’m used to seeing all sorts of weird and wonderful things happening on the streets of Puerto de la Cruz from avante-garde street theatre to traditional Canarian folk dancing but today, even I had to do a double take.
When you glance over at the car park from alongside the harbour, there are some things that [...]

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Walking on Tenerife – Access Denied

Posted in Travel, hiking, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »

I woke up yesterday to one of those perfect summer mornings. The sun shone down from a cloudless sky, the birds were in full voice and the warm air carried the scent of the last of the jasmine. On the mountainside above us, the ochres, mustards and russets of Mount Teide saturated the skyline.
In short, [...]

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Tenerife Past and Present

Posted in Life, Tenerife, Travel, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

There’s a wonderful little photography exhibition in our local shopping centre of La Cúpula in La Paz entitled ‘Tenerife Ayer y Hoy’.
It consists of 100 or so location shoots around the north of Tenerife with one photo taken between 50 and 80 years ago and the exact same shot repeated today.
The locations are mainly in [...]

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Rod Stewart in Tenerife

Posted in Party, Spain, Tenerife, Travel, music, tagged , , , on May 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »

I wonder if, like me, Rod Stewart ever looks in the mirror of a morning and a line from the immortal ‘Maggie May’ pops into his head:
“The morning sun when it’s in your face really shows your age.”?
May 18th 2009 is the date set for that raspy-throated icon of Rock ‘n’ Roll, Rod Stewart to [...]

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Clash of the Titans on Tenerife

Posted in Life, Tenerife, Travel, movies, tagged , , , , , , on May 6, 2009 | 7 Comments »

Call me Mrs Saddo if you must but the prospect of Liam Neeson, Mads Mikkelson and Ralph Fiennes descending on Tenerife to film scenes from an epic Greek Gods movie of Good vs Evil and the power of love to triumph over all is akin to…well, I don’t know, Kings of Leon playing at the [...]

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Where there’s muck, there’s madness.

Posted in Food, Life, Party, People, Spain, Tenerife, Travel, fiestas, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

It’s a perfect day for standing ankle deep in ox manure watching small wooden galleons and rice and grain decorated carts trundle past while being plied with free wine and popcorn and trying not to lose an eye to a flying hard boiled egg.
Although I’m certain that Freudian analysts could dine out on such a [...]

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