The English Library is not simply a repository for books written in the English language. For over a century it’s been a social hub for the British ex pat community …

Nipping out for some shopping takes on a whole new meaning when faced with a two hour downhill trek.

Now summer is officially on us and before the thermometer loses its head entirely, it’s the ideal time to explore Tenerife’s east coast. Around Puertitio de Güímar the default setting is sun and …

Barranco del Infierno hung up its hiking boots and closed to the public 18 months ago. This month we stop mourning the manicured splendour of Adeje and head instead to the Jurassic jewel of Masca [...]

This month we take an excursion away from the sun-soaked beaches of the south west coast to discover the ghosts of a past in the hills above them.

From the wide forest pista (path) of La Caldera a trail snakes up through the forest, ever higher until it reaches the ridge and the world below opens up at your feet. You can sit on flat rock chair, dangle your legs and tuck into egg butties in front of a wide screen vista that makes you glad to be alive.

Summer sits waiting in the wings for the ash cloud to shift and Tinerfeño thoughts are turning to Sunday picnics in the woods; time to brush off the canvas and head into the mountains for a spot of camping[...]

A swagger of Rolls Royces, a clutch of Kawasakis, and a fanfare of Fords, Jeremy Clarkson would be drooling all over the Recinto Ferial in Santa Cruz  if he could see the motors on show at Autoepoca. With the Spanish RAC celebrating it’s hundredth birthday, classic and antique collectors’ clubs have loaned their pride and [...]

It would take more than an invading armada to distract the Los Hermanos Petanque Club from their afternoon’s sport in Los Cristianos. Sir Francis Drake refused to desert his bowls at Plymouth Hoe, and he was threatened by the Spanish fleet [...]

My First, My Last, My Everything, that could be the theme tune for Montaña Roja in El Medano, as the 171 metre high red rock is an image that grabs those arriving and departing from Tenerife South airport. For me it marked a statement of intent to do more walks in 2010, and standing astride [...]