The eighth edition of the prestigious Tenerife Ladies Open (TLO 2008) takes place from 19-22 June 2008 at Costa Adeje golf course. The event will attract 120 professional players including some of the top names in the world of ladies golf from Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, England, New Zealand, Australia and India. (more...)
Temperatures topped 40ºC in many parts of the Canaries at the week-end as the mass of hot air from the Saharan Desert covered the region for a third day.
Despite Met Office forecasts of maximum temperatures in the low 30s, weather stations recorded much higher figures on Saturday and Sunday. The clock on the seafront at Las Canteras registered 40ºC for most of Sunday afternoon. The dust cloud, which was clearly visible in satellite pictures of the Canaries yesterday, partly lifted last night but is expected to continue fo the next day or two.
(taken from the article at news-canarias.net)
Christoph Keissling, General Manager of Siam Park, spoke to Tenerife News recently and announced that the opening date for the mega theme park is set to be May the 1st, 2008.
Everything is in place, and the final checks are ready to be carried out.
More information can be found here, at Tenerife news.
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...)
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.
Great Hotels of the World, representing some of the world's finest independent hotels and resorts, announce the opening of 40 new luxury villas at the five-star Gran Hotel Bahia del Duque Resort, Costa Adeje, Tenerife.
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.
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.