When it comes to religious festivals, it’s easy nowadays to lose sight of what they’re supposed to be about.
in the UK, Christmas has become a time for economists to benchmark the strength of consumer spending as shops look forward to their busiest season of the year and Easter is the pinnacle of sales for confectionary [...]
Now that the last Rumba sleeve has disappeared over the carnival horizon for another year, I’ve been investigating the strong ties between Tenerife and the Americas, or more specifically, Cuba.
When the lure of the New World beckoned poverty stricken farmers from these shores to venture beyond World’s End, it began a relationship that was to [...]
This week I’ve been fantasy house-hunting along Tenerife’s northwest coast where its history is laid out like a cross-section beneath a microscope.
I encounter scenes that have escaped from someone’s private collection of old photographs; evidence that Tenerife’s ancestors were much better environmentalists than today’s islanders (not too difficult I hear you mutter); a sudden realisation [...]