Posted in Food, Friends, Life, Party, People, Puerto de la Cruz, Spain, Tenerife, Travel, fiestas, tagged banana plantation, beer, Botanical Gardens, calf strain, Embarkation Tuesday, golf course, hiking, July Fiestas, La Paz, Las Cañades, Latino, Puerto de la Cruz, Sardinada, Teide National Park, volcano on July 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Those blessed with powers of observation will have noticed that there’s been blog silence here for a couple of weeks.
That’s because we’ve had our 19 year old nephew staying with us and he’s 24/7 maintenance. From the moment he drags himself from his pit at the crack of 10 am to his self-imposed curfew at [...]
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Posted in Food, Friends, Life, People, Spain, Tenerife, Travel, tagged Canary Islands, cooking, Food, football, gringo, Peru, Peruvian food, puddings, recipes, Red Square, South American, Spain, Tacaronte, Tenerife on June 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
It’s 2.30pm on a hot Saturday afternoon and we’re sitting in a large shed at the bottom of someone’s garden in Tacaronte.
Our party of 7½ (Bea is only 5 years old) are seated in front of the corner bar. To our right, a long trestle table seats 20 or more people, predominantly women. Above our [...]
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Posted in Food, Friends, Life, People, Puerto de la Cruz, Spain, Tenerife, Travel, tagged Tenerife, Canary Islands, Puerto de la Cruz, Mil Sabores, Mount Teide, Spain, volcano, crater, Plaza Charco, Sri Lanka, VSO, bocadillos, El Portillo, Arenas Negras, Siete Cañadas, Marines, hiking, Parador, mojitos, Elements on January 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
“I’ll mix us a small aperitif” shouts Sarah above the din of the steady disco beat emanating from the speakers and the constant whirr of my hairdryer.
It’s Thursday night, Sarah’s last with us before she returns to Doncaster and makes final preparations before leaving for Sri Lanka and 2 years as a project worker with [...]
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Posted in Food, Life, Party, People, Puerto de la Cruz, Spain, Tenerife, Travel, fiestas, tagged cava, dancing, fireworks, good luck, grapes, knickers, La Villa shopping centre, live band, music, New Year's Eve, Party, Puerto de la Cruz, red, Spain, Tenerife, underwear on January 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Cava’s chilling in the fridge; the grapes have been de-seeded and wrapped in small foil bundles; the picnic cool bag has been rescued from the garden shed and its plastic wine glasses rinsed and, most importantly of all, I’m wearing my new red knickers.
New Year’s Eve is a complicated business in this part of [...]
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Posted in Food, Life, People, Tenerife, tagged CD Tenerife, football, Gran Canaria, soccer, Spain, sport, sunflower seeds, Tenerife, ticker-tape, UD Las Palmas on November 19, 2007 | No Comments »
As the coach slowly inched its way through the police lines the crowd surged forward in a frenzy of excitement, many of them had their faces painted blue and their lips pursed against small blue trumpets that emitted a level of sound far beyond their size; klaxons in cardboard disguise. From where I was standing [...]
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Posted in Food, Life, Puerto de la Cruz, Spain, Tenerife, Travel, fiestas, tagged autumn, calima, Chestnuts, fiesta San Andres, harbour, new wines, Puerto de la Cruz, rain, Spain, summer, Tenerife on November 10, 2007 | No Comments »
November in the north of Tenerife usually evokes two strong images in my mind; heavy rain and chestnuts roasting. But last year, and so far this year, only one of those images has transpired.
Normally, November is the month in which everything breathes a sigh of relief as the long, dry summer draws to a close [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Posted in Food, Party, Travel, fiestas, tagged barbecue, Canary Islands, cart, fiesta, Food, Garachico, gofio, oxen, Romeria de San Roque, Spain, Tenerife, traditional dress, vino del pais, wine on August 23, 2007 | No Comments »
I have a friend who insists that when she was a girl her family holidayed in France near a small village where free wine was dispensed from a standing pipe in the village square and you could just wander along with your bottles and fill them up whenever you liked.
I’d have hot-footed it to this [...]
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