Floating serenely down the kilometre long lazy river, with my bum wedged in an inflatable yellow doughnut and my toes wiggling in the cool water, what a way to spend a Saturday afternnon in the Tenerife sunshine. Today I had my first hands on experience of Siam Park, the new Water Kingdom in Costa Adeje. My last trip was covering the official opening evening on  September 15, a much more formal affair but this time I gratefully acepted a media day invite, and brought along friends Vicki and

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The Solari family are a hosehold name in football. As well as making history in Argentina, they have been making a mark on different clubs, teams, cities and countries for many years. And this looks set to continue for a third generation… Eduardo Solari (58): He was a central midfielder for Rosario Central, Gimnasia de la Plata, Argentines Juniors, Atletico Tucuman, Renato Cesarini, Junior (Colombia) and Atlas (Mexico) and played for the Argentinian national side in 1975. He has coached severa

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The Solaris - A Footballing Family

It’s enough to make the Major choke on his cornflakes and Basil chew the carpet. Puerto de la Cruz council want to twin their city with Torquay, the cream of Devon, forever immortalised by Fawlty Towers.  You can see the similarities, both coastal cities with a big fishing and boating community and popular with tourism, but that’s not the connection. Agatha Christie is the key to this mystery. The famous crime writer, born in Torquay in 1890, stayed in Puero de la Cruz in 1927 and was inspir

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Tenerife to Torquay, a Fawlty connection or a mystery?

Yesterday, Macca’s concert seemed so far away, now it looks as though he’ll be here to play. It was starting to look as if the proposed Paul McCartney concert at Golf Costa Adeje on Saturday Decemeber 6 wouldn’t happen but a leading Tenerife hotel has started to take reservations for package deals that include accomodation and tickets. There is still no confirmation on the official Paul McCartney website or anywhere else I can find on the internet but the 5 star Grand Hotel Iberostar Anthelia

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Paul McCartney, Tenerife December 6, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah