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 Friends, People, Spain, Tenerife, Travel, tagged Canary Islands, hiking, walking, Anaga Mountains, Chamorga, compass, map, Eiger, barranco on June 28, 2008 | 4 Comments »
“D’y think we’ve been walking for more than 15 minutes yet?” asks Jack, re-reading the scant directions in his hand.
“More like 40 minutes” Sue and I agree.
We’d been hiking steadily uphill through the forest and, according to the ‘map’, should have taken a right turn 25 minutes ago.
“Compass!” Jack was like a surgeon calling for [...]
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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 Friends, Party, People, Spain, Tenerife, Travel, tagged "JC Murphy's", "Noria District", "Strong Pursuader", Blues, Blues Festival, Canary Islands, dreadlocks, grass, hippies, music, Robert Cray Band, Santa Blues, Santa Cruz, Spain, Tenerife on June 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The Tinerfeños are an incredibly easy going bunch of people. Other than when they’re behind the wheel of a car, they appear in no particular hurry to do anything and are quite happy to watch visitors (particularly those from a northern European country beginning with the letter G who are known for their penchant for [...]
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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 Friends, Life, Spain, Tenerife, Travel, tagged British Embassy, Canary Islands, ex-pat, Passport, photograph, Ruud van Nistelrooy on November 9, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I used to be a civil servant (that’s another of those sentences that I feel ought to be followed by “but I’m ok now”), so I’m not easily fazed by bureaucracy. But the British Embassy has managed to raise my blood pressure to a level that requires blog therapy to lower it again.
My passport expired [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 Friends, Party, Travel, fiestas on February 28, 2007 | No Comments »
Saturday 24th February
4pm - closing parade. Another 3 hour standing marathon as the various dancing troupes, floats, Carnaval Queens and multitudinous winners of fancy dress prizes parade through the streets from Costa Martiánez to Castillo San Felipe.
10pm - Everyone’s in fancy dress for the closing party and looking forward to the final blow-out. I’ve opted [...]
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