More eagerly anticipated than the new Batman, or Bond movies; for months hopeful voices have been asking on travel advice websites; “When is it going to open?”
Thousands have gazed in awe at its twin pineapple domed entrance, wondering what treasures lie within.
Finally, this week, all questions were answered when Europe’s newest and biggest water park, [...]
Thar She Blows…but you’ll just have to take my word for it
24 Jul
Posted by admin as Special features
Okay, the Moby Dick reference might be a tad inappropriate given that I was interested in ethical whale and dolphin watching and not actually harpooning them.
For August’s edition of Living Tenerife, I took to the high seas (well the coast around Los Gigantes) on the former North Sea crabbing boat, the Katrin, to find out [...]
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 [...]
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