Last week on our Going Native in Tenerife blog we had a virtual house guest and he was such a success on Going Native that we thought we’d invite him over to Real Tenerife for a quick sojourn. Mike was the sort of guest who’s a real pleasure to have; he ate whatever we were [...]
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Tenerife Goes Native Across the Pond
Posted in Friends, Life, People, Puerto de la Cruz, Spain, Tenerife, Travel, tagged Canary Islands, Corona, Cuban cigars, Going Native in Tenerife, Google Earth, guide book to Tenerife, Mike Harling, New York, Postcards from across the Pond, Spain, St Maarten, Tenerife, US ex pat, virtual blog tour on June 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Santa Blues 2009 – line up
Posted in Tenerife, Travel, fiestas, music, tagged Blues Festival, Guinness, Laskina, Michele McCain, Rory Gallagher, Santa Blues 2009, Santa Cruz, Santana, The Campbell Brothers, The Deans, The Santa Blues Band, The Vargas Blues Band on June 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Well the nights are sultry, the stage is set beneath the ‘flame of the forest’ trees at the foot of the iconic tower of the Church of La Concepción and JC Murphy’s have stocked up on the Guinness. That all means it must be time for the Santa Blues Festival.
This year, instead of spreading the [...]
Corpus Christi Flower Carpets
Posted in Friends, People, Spain, Tenerife, Travel, fiestas, tagged Canary Islands, Corpus Christi flower carpets 2009, feast of Corpus Christi, flower carpets, La Orotava, religion, religious festival, Spain, streets decorated in flowers, Tenerife on June 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Some aromas just make you smile.
For me it’s the scent of hot pine needles which remind me of hiking through sun dappled forests; freshly mown grass which conjures up camping trips to Cornwall, the Lake District and Wales; candyfloss and toffee apples which transport me back to childhood fairgrounds and …toasted grass seeds. No, not [...]
CD Tenerife gain promotion to La Primera of La Liga
Posted in Spain, Tenerife, Travel, football, tagged CD Tenerife football club, CD Tenerife promoted to La Primera 2009, celebration, elation, football, fountain in Paza España, Girona vs CD Tenerife 14/6/2009, joy, scenes of joy at promotion of Tenerife to La Primera, sport, water on June 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From the moment we leave the TF motorway and hit the outskirts of Santa Cruz, we can tell this isn’t just any Saturday afternoon. This is like driving up Sir Matt Busby Way on the last home game of the season when Man Utd are about to be presented with the Premiership trophy; except that [...]
Agatha Christie in Tenerife
Posted in Puerto de la Cruz, Spain, Tenerife, Travel, tagged Agatha Christie, crimewriter, exhibition, International Agatha Christie Festival, Mrs McGinty's Dead, photography, sleuth, the 1920s, The Man Who Fell from the Sea, The Mirror Crack'd, The Mysterious Mr Quin on June 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’ve just been wondering around the beautiful courtyard of the former Convent of Santo Domingo where up until Sunday, as part of the Agatha Christie Festival, they’re staging an exhibition of photos of Puerto de la Cruz in the 1920s, around the time the famous crime writer visited these parts.
Agatha Christie and her daughter, Rosalind [...]
War of the Peaches – the final outcome
Posted in Food, Life, Tenerife, Travel, gardening, tagged fruit trees, gardening, peaches, peach tree, growing fruit, making jam, making chutney on June 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
(see ‘The War of the Peaches‘)
It’s all over bar the shouting.
The peaches were ripe enough to pick by Wednesday and over the course of Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, we picked basket after basket of plump, sweet, juicy peaches.
We spent the whole of Friday afternoon and Saturday cooking, the food cupboard is full and the fruit [...]
The War of the Peaches
Posted in Food, Life, Puerto de la Cruz, Spain, Tenerife, Travel, gardening, tagged battle, Battle of the Roses, chutney making, fruit, garden pests, gardening, harvesting peaches, jam making, peaches, rats, soldiers, war on June 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
…similar to the War of the Roses but with only one ground upon which the battle is being staged; the peach tree in the garden.
On one side we have the rightful owner of the garden and heir to the peaches; me, and on the other we have the scavenging pretenders to the throne; the tree [...]
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