Think Tenerife is full of cheap and cheerful bars and restaurants serving bog standard Brit food? Think again. There are plenty of stylish contemporary, romantically rustic and historically atmospheric eateries in which to enjoy a special Valentine’s Day dinner with your soul mate]…]

It’s the start of a new year. Traditional Tinerfeño rainbow-coloured skirts are being ruffled, horses harnessed up and batucada drums beaten. The fiestas are about to start coming thick and fast and if you don’t want to miss out on Tenerife’s most exuberant, colourful and occasionally mind-boggling parties [...]

With the party season upon us and little black dresses at the ready (the boys will have to wait until Carnaval to wear theirs), here’s TM’s guide to the top cocktails expected to be sipped across the island over this festive holiday [...]

If you think that Tenerife at Christmas has as much festive atmosphere as a British seaside resort in August then you don’t know Tenerife. There are positively oodles of Christmas events taking place all over the island.
Here are our top Ten-erife tips to ensure you have yourself a merry little Christmas [...]

Materialistic obsession – the better car, bigger house syndrome
The God-awful weather – can’t argue with that one
It’s become a nanny state – Do this, Don’t do that, etc
Over-the-top political correctness – nursery rhyme madness et al
Winter nights starting just after The News at One­ – what can you accomplish in half a day?
The attitude to [...]

Did you know Rafael Benitez used to manage CD Tenerife? At this moment in time, I bet there are a whole lot of Tenerife fans wishing he still did…and a sizeable percentage of Liverpool fans too [...]

A bloody big volcano
World’s worst airline disaster
Pocket-sized bananas
Cheap booze
Dandruff-ridden potatoes (papas arrugadas)
Being part of Africa
Being part of Europe
Sunburn
Hundreds of bars with names like ‘The Mucky Bucket’
Not needing a snorkel to play golf in winter

Flash Harry timeshare reps
Under-staffed banks
Over-staffed banks with under-qualified personnel
Unelco ‘customer services’
Surly shop and bar staff
Cryptic road junctions
Officious public service workers programmed to bark, ‘No!’
Big-headed ex-pats
Suicidal taxi drivers
Boy racers in souped-up Seats

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