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As you know if you read my last column in Island connections. I am busy writing a book. It's going to be a wooftastic 'tail' about a loveable ex-pat pooch living in Tenerife (funnily enough). Here is a small extract from Chapter one ...............

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In tourist terms June on Tenerife is one of the low-key months, but relating to what's going on around the island it's one of our favourite months.

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Well he went to Gran Canaria last year … and now Diario de Avisos is reporting that producer Maldito Rodríguez is far advanced in negotiations to bring Sting to Tenerife to perform in June. Apparently the Back To Bass Tour team have approved the H...
Update 2 June:  The concert is said to be hanging by a thread and to be on the point of being cancelled because of the lack of tickets sold – half the 13,000 capacity is still available – and also because of the logistics and requirements set down...

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You don’t have to go far from the beaches of Costa Adeje to see the proud heritage of the past. Just 10 minutes inland from Fañabe, Torviscas and La Caleta is Adeje - one of my favourite towns – and it’s full of pleasant surprises.

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Criss crossed with the trails that used to take workers to the fields and tiles to export points, the south west hills provide some splendid walks through the ghosts of its past and spring some surprises along the way.

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Two youngsters on a school trip to the Masca barranco had to be rescued just before 5 this afternoon.  Both were 17-year-old boys, and although one had suffered no worse than a sprained ankle, the other was suffering from an undefined problem, apa...

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IGN has announced a tremor of 1.6 on the Richter Scale in the Teide national park. The tremor, small in real terms, was registered just after 6.30 this morning. What makes it worth real mention is that it was very close to the surface, at a depth ...

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Adeje Ayuntamiento has committed to stamping out illegal massages on the municipality’s beaches and promenades. Information posters will be set up and leaflets distributed to beach users advising of the dangers the activity can represent. Mayor Jo...

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Update 31 May 2012: Well, I don’t imagine it’s gone away in the last year and half since I last posted about this problem, but prostitution has again become a huge issue in Playa de las Américas. Once again, it’s concentrated in Calles de Llanos d...

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Google is updating its images of Tenerife for Google Street View, Google Maps and Google Earth. The company’s distinctive cars will be seen in many roads and streets throughout the island over the next several days obtaining high resolution images...

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Foreign investment in Spanish properties leapt by 27% in 2011 as more overseas nationals took advantage of cheap properties with a view to renting them out to holidaymakers and locals who are unable to qualify for a home loan to buy a property of ...

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Today I should have been out celebrating and enjoying myself, quaffing some local wine and no doubt stuffing myself with traditional foods, whilst listening to Canarian musicians and learning more about “my” island. However, I wasn’t, instead I am...

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Illegal letting discussion continued. Page 1 is HERE, page 2 HERE.

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This week the German holiday tour operator TUI announced their awards for the top 100 hotels in their 10,000 plus client hotels and Tenerife scooped seven of those awards...

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Spain’s government announced  the appointment of Blackrock and Oliver Wyman as independent valuers of the real estate loans that lie at the heart of the country’s banking crisis. The move  to give credibility to Spain’s efforts to stem investors’ ...

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A 37-year-old woman is critically ill in Candelaria hospital after being knocked down by her own car in San Eugenio. The incident happened just before midnight last night in Calle Gran Bretaña, and emergency services were called out with reports t...

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Despite current economic uncertainty, it’s no surprise that Spain is still considered one of the best destinations in which to purchase a home abroad with the Costa del Azahar topping the list of areas in which investors wish to purchase homes acc...

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A Russian sailor who left Tenerife to cross the Atlantic single-handed has been rescued some 80 miles south of here after two days adrift in a little lifeboat which he took refuge in when his yacht was about to sink. A rapid intervention craft and...

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The 306 degree vista didn't disappoint. La Orotava valley still has the capacity to WOW. There's a feeling of more space and less development on the Los Realejos side of the valley...

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Wednesday, 30 May is Día de Canarias, Canarian Day, a Canaries-wide national holiday in celebration of the anniversary of the first official Parliamentary session of the islands on 30 May 1983, some 10 months after the Canaries became an autonomou...

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