Tapas is a wonderful culinary tradition which allows you to sample a variety of flavours in a single setting and it’s a very sociable and informal way of dining with friends.
There’s a certain art to tapas too: deciding how many dishes will satisfy depending on whether you’re peckish, hungry or downright starving; getting a nice [...]
Where on Tenerife, without the aid of hallucinogenics, can you watch an Iguana in a tree house being stroked by a feather duster on the end of a long pole; caterpillars turn to chrysalids and chrysalids give birth to butterflies and a moth the size of a small bi-plane sleeping on the bark of [...]
Next month Jack and his camera lens take us on a breathtaking journey through the narrow streets of La Orotava’s old quarter to witness the creation of Tenerife’s most transient works of art.
Using petals, seeds and coloured sand, the Alfombristas (carpet makers) of La Orotava create vast biblical masterpieces alongside intricately detailed patterns along the [...]
This month’s special feature has been a stroll in the park…literally.
With watches poised to move to British Summer Time, I’ve been checking out nature’s offerings in what some believe to be the site of the Greek mythological Garden of Hesperides – this beautiful island of Tenerife.
I have, at various times over the past two weeks, [...]
Jack’s been investigating Canarian cheeses and, as part of his research, invested in a whole goat’s cheese – not cheese made from a whole goat, just a whole circular block of goat’s cheese from Arico.
My initial mild concerns that this investment may prove to be wasteful were laid to rest when, after the first day’s [...]
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 [...]
Some time ago when Jack excitedly told me that one of his boyhood heroes, Richard Burton, had actually visited Tenerife, I was, to say the least, under-whelmed.
I had always known that James Bond (aka Sean Connery) was his greatest idol, but Liz Taylor’s third husband?!
My ignorance was quickly put to shame when I learned about [...]
Well, party season’s over, Tres Reyes has been and gone, the decorations are down and we’re all back at work, so that can only mean one thing…Carnaval!
With less than 3 weeks to go before the start of festivities in Santa Cruz and Puerto de la Cruz, Jack takes us on a surreal and hedonistic journey [...]
December’s issue takes us onto Tenerife’s terraces; not the ones planted with vines and potatoes but the ones filled with the blue and white shirts, flags and banners of the fans of Tenerife’s football team; CD Tenerife.
Jack dons his Scotland shirt (right colour, same affinity) and braves the passion and rivalry of a local derby [...]
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