If you are considering buying a holiday home, you may be surprised that prices for apartments and villas on Spain's Canary Islands are looking good for investors in the coming year.

The latest statistics show that prices on the islands of Tenerife and Gran Canaria have never been more appealing for those seeking a permanent home or just a home away from home. Can you imagine living in a lush tropical paradise, permanently, with a price tag that is within reach? (more...)

More than two million Britons are heading overseas for Easter and Tenerife is the outright favourite destination. Also popular with the British, for the early Easter break, according to Abta, are Egypt, Morocco and Florida.And because Easter is so early, the skiing season is still in full swing, so France, Austria and Switzerland are also popular destinations.

For those looking for a weekend getaway, city breaks to Paris Amsterdam, Barcelona and Rome top the list.

Around 450,000 passengers will be leaving from Heathrow airport this weekend making it the busiest airport in Britain, followed by Gatwick with 260,000 and Stansted with 170,000. (more...)

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 yet to discover and if I continue to use walking maps and guides produced by staff working in the local tourism office of a municipality who have clearly never walked further than the distance from their car to the office, it may at best be many years before I can truly say I’ve walked Tenerife. At worst, I may not survive to ever make that statement.

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17 year old Patricia Rodríguez from Tenerife was crowned Miss Spain 2008 at a gala in the Marina d'Or complex in Oropesa del Mar (Castellón) last Saturday night.

Second prize went to Miss Madrid, Claudio Moro (22).

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When Darren Richards sold DirectDirect.com, the online dating service he founded, for almost £30m last year, it wasn’t to the obvious millionaires’ playgrounds that he headed with his spoils. He bypassed the palm-fringed beaches of the Caribbean, gave Marbella’s gated communities a wide berth and Dubai’s Palm Jumeirah a miss. Instead, he chose that winter-sun hot spot so beloved of the British holiday-maker: Tenerife.

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Tenerife has the problem normally associated with the pop duo Wham! For some people it seems just so 1983. It has appeared, not unlike George Michael, to be still around, but it isn't what it used to be.

Which is harsh, at least for the north of the island. Rarely can so small a place be so dramatically divided in culture and style. The south of Tenerife, invariably the drier part, does still have a sense of the early Eighties about it. The northern section, on the other hand, has refocused on the family market, but with an emphasis on environmentalism.

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MENTION TENERIFE to many people and images are instantly conjured up of Brits abroad, scorching themselves on the beaches or drinking themselves into oblivion. The reality, though, is that even in the island's rowdier southern resorts, the worst excesses have been curbed of late and in its capital of Santa Cruz, and in the north, the Spanish island can deservedly boast of being an appealing city-break destination.

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“Disney on Ice”, the latest show from the world’s biggest dream factory, comes to Tenerife from 14-17 March 2008 at the Santiago Martín stadium in La Laguna. The Tenerife production firm Essencial Group is promoting the event in association with the Cabildo de Tenerife, the Canary Islands Government and La Laguna City Council.

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