We were hiking in the Chinyero Reserve on Tuesday and when we finished
we headed to the Las Fleytas bar and restaurant for our customary post-hike beer. The restaurant has a deservedly good reputation for tasty, plentiful food and is also known for its almond cakes.
With Richard and Nikki (and of course Basil, the Tenerife Dogs [...]
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War of the Peaches – the final outcome
Posted in Food, Life, Tenerife, Travel, gardening, tagged fruit trees, gardening, growing fruit, making chutney, making jam, peach tree, peaches 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 [...]
Where there’s muck, there’s madness.
Posted in Food, Life, Party, People, Spain, Tenerife, Travel, fiestas, tagged Canary Islands, costumes, donkey, fiesta, food and drink, galleons, goats, Going Native in Tenerife, guachinche, handsome men, ox, parrandas, popcorn, romería, sheep, Spain, Tegueste, Tenerife, traditions, wine 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 [...]
Thinking of a Holiday in Tenerife in 2009?
Posted in Food, Spain, Tenerife, Travel, fiestas, tagged Canary Islands, fiestas, Going Native in Tenerife, holiday brochures, Holiday Tenerife 2009, Mount Teide, nudist beaches, off the tourist trail, prices in Tenerife, restaurants, Tapas, Tenerife, travel guide to Tenerife on January 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Then you’re lucky you stumbled across this, particularly if it’s your first time to Tenerife.
The economic crisis is deepening, prospects are bleak, the pound has today fallen against the dollar and remains on its knees against the euro and the yen.
So if you’re going to invest in a holiday abroad, it’s imperative that you get [...]
Jackass and wine, a lethal combination
Posted in Food, Life, Party, People, Puerto de la Cruz, Spain, Tenerife, Travel, fiestas, tagged Tenerife, Canary Islands, Puerto de la Cruz, Spain, Chestnuts, Icod de los Vinos, vino del pais, wine, fiesta de San Andrés, Saint Andrew’s Day, arrastre de las tables, new wine, bodegas, pinchos, sardines, Jackass, daredevil on December 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The neon street temperatures may have fallen to 20° C and the sock box may have been retrieved from underneath the bed where it lives for a good eight months of the year, but autumn in the north of Tenerife brings more than adequate compensation for the official end to long summer days.
Not least, November [...]
The New Neighbour
Posted in Food, Friends, Life, People, Puerto de la Cruz, Spain, Tenerife, Travel, tagged Amazon, ancient healing, Basque country, Canary Islands, energy lines, Food, Going Native, Jesus, massage, Puerto de la Cruz, Sen Healing, Spain, Tenerife, Thailand on November 7, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Life here at Casa Monty has been hectic of late.
All summer we’ve been fully occupied producing a new guide to Tenerife, or should I say the new guide to Tenerife, as it knocks the spots off everything hitherto produced. Jam packed with insightful information, witticisms, priceless tips and tried and tested recommendations, ‘Going Native Tenerife’ [...]
On the Trail of Good Tapas
Posted in Food, Life, Puerto de la Cruz, Spain, Tenerife, Travel, tagged Ébano Café, Bodega de Guapa, boquerónes, Canary Islands, Cámara, Christmas, Food, Plaza Charco, Puerto de la Cruz, Ranilla District, Régulo, restaurants, ruta de tapas, Serrano ham, smoked cheese, snacks, Spain, Tapas, Tenerife, tortilla Español on October 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Christmas has come early this year for anyone on Tenerife who enjoys the social and culinary joys of eating tapas.
From today (17th October) until November 2nd, Puerto de la Cruz is staging its second ‘Ruta De Tapas’ or tapas route (tricky translation, that one) which this year they’re calling ‘Un Mar de Sabores’ (A sea [...]
Fame at last, well in Manchester anyway
Posted in Food, Friends, Life, People, Puerto de la Cruz, Spain, Tenerife, Travel, tagged business, Canary Islands, Cha Paula, Chris Shaw, convent, hiking, Isle of Bute, Kath Shaw, Leslie Beeson, Linked In, Manchester Evening News, networking, Pink Elephant, PR, press, publicity, Puerto de la Cruz, Rothesay, Spain, Stockport, Stockport Convent High School, Teide National Park, Tenerife, Tenerife Property Shop on August 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Which of the following statements would you say was false?
Hiking in the Teide National Park:
a) Exercises your heart and lungs
b) Tones up your leg muscles
c) Leaves your mind free to think
d) Is good publicity
e) Provides stunning, surreal scenery
“The answer is [...]
