Congratulations to Jurgen Koch, our Production & Art Director who, it seems, has been doing a little extra production work on the side which has resulted in the birth of his first child, Laura.
Jurgen and his partner Lucía, joked about the possibility of Laura arriving on the 29th February and as a result of all [...]
You’d think that after 4½ years of traversing this island from coast to peak that I’d have pretty much seen it all by now. After all, it’s hardly Australia size. And in terms of driving around the island, that’s probably true.
But when it comes to exploring on foot, there are still multitudinous places I have [...]
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 [...]
Although organizers are certain that his name was on the guest list, Sir Elton flew out of Tenerife without attending the party held at El Faro in Torviscas in his honour, or at least, in honour of his first Tenerife concert on 24th January 2008.
And after all the disorganized mayhem of the concert itself, the [...]
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 [...]
This month, Living Tenerife has been talking to the General Manager of the Magma Conference Centre in Playa de Las Américas, Tenerife and finding out what goes on behind its pillared frontage.
Iñaki Dominguez talks about the economic advantage of having organisations such as ABTA and the German equivalent, DRV, hold their annual conferences here.
For major [...]
In next month’s issue of Living Tenerife, our editor, Roy Wedderburn, travels to Thailand via the kitchens of the Samui restaurant in CC AquaMall in Fañabe and tickles our taste buds with such delights as chicken Tom Yam soup and fried salmon in red curry sauce.
Like watching ‘The Beach’, Roy’s review will have you planning [...]
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 [...]
The Christmas and New Year period has seen me walking off Jack’s excellent roast potatoes in the Teide crater, or Las Cañadas to give it its Sunday name.
Gingerly picking my way across compacted ice and snow; climbing ever higher in the thin air; half skiing, half running down the loose scree covered slopes of Guajara [...]