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The legendary music of classic R&B band, Earth, Wind & Fire, is to fill Santiago Calatrava's dazzling Auditorio de Tenerife with rhythm & colour on December 5. Show time 9 p.m.

Arguably one of the best black acts of the 70's & 80's, The Rock and Roll "Hall of Famers" are well-known for their spectacular live shows.

Their 2003 album, The Promise, reunited EWF with the Emotions after 20 years and also contains a new school groove "Wonderland" featuring Angie Stone. The review also noted that Philip Bailey is still hitting impossibly high notes!

Philip Bailey, fans will remember, also dueted with the mighty Phil Collins on "Easy Lover". (Featured on Bailey's solo album Chinese Wall.)

EWF founder, Maurice White, who has been ailing with Parkinson's disease, no longer tours with the group but is still very much in evidence on production. White once described their music as "a conversation among souls.”

Tickets are available from the box office, by phone on 902 317 327 (Monday to Saturday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.) of from various multi-service terminals of the CajaCanarias, including those of Centro Comercial Santa Cruz - Carrefour and at the Casa de la Cultura in Los Cristianos.

As if you could miss it, the Auditorio can be found at Av. de la Constitución, 1 - Santa Cruz de Tenerife. (Hat tip to CanaryNet.com)

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Well, in that sense, football pundit, big Ron Atkinson, shares a lot in common with many other British ex-pat residents in Tenerife.

Elizabeth Grice asks, is he really a racist?

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While CD Tenerife didn't win last night's cup match against Real Madrid, they held them off valiantly before 18,389 spectators until "Solari stamped Real Madrid´s passport to the Copa del Rey (1-2) in the last minute of extra time."

Full match report in English:
1-2: Style, sweat and Solari stamp their passport

CD Tenerife president, Víctor Pérez Ascanio, is reported as saying, "If we play like that every weekend we will always be in the top three positions" [in the league table].

But the real victory for the Tenerife club is that takings from the match amounted to €600,000, with which they can "bring people up-to-date" - I am sure this refers to outstanding wages - pay the tax man and deal with an embargo.

Pérez Ascanio: "La recaudación en el partido de Copa fue de 100 millones de pesetas"

That ought to do plenty to improve morale and could indeed hail the beginning of a new run of luck for the side.

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Lets be typically British and talk about the weather, shall we? Well, since I am British, I reckon I have a valid excuse. What's yours?

Generally known as the land of the "Eternal Spring", with a pretty constant year-round temperature and nothing much to any extreme, Tenerife has also often been called a "continent in miniature" because of the diversity of its flora, fauna and micro-climates in different parts of the island. But you used to know exactly what you would get in each area and what slight variations to expect at different times of year.

Climate-wise, things have certainly changed here over the last few years and are set to change quite a lot more, according to this report by Wired Europe Warned About Warming.

When I first came to the island in 1992, the heat was always bearable and accompanied by sea breezes. Humidity was unnoticeable and rain consisted of two days worth in winter.

When you got up in the morning, if you saw sun, you knew you'd have sun all day. Now, the weather can change hourly. This bemuses the locals, annoys the tourists and worries the heck out of me with Deja Vu recollections of England.

We've had some very bad storms since the turn of the century. There was a tornado in Feb/Mar 2001 (I managed not to be on the island, but came back to find a lot of damages and saw whole fields laid bear where crops had literally been ripped out by the winds) and more bad storms in the December of that year, which required putting the island on a state of alert.

(The storm on December 9 that year lifted the roof on the front of my house and brought down the ceiling with countless gallons of water.)

On March 31, 2002, a disaster occurred in the capital, Santa Cruz and a state of emergency was declared after torrential rains - 224 liters per square meter in bearly three hours, or in other words, all the water we would normally expect over a whole year in less than an afternoon - caused serious flooding and six deaths.

The Wired article states, "Across Europe, however, buildings are made to stay warm in winter, not cool in summer, and even modern buildings are not designed to cope with very hot weather."

Up to a point, older, more traditional houses in the Canary Islands, with thick walls and small windows with shutters, are already better prepared for hot weather. This summer though, it was nothing short of an "arms race" to see what kind of inventive methods we could come up with to keep sun and heat out of our homes.

These last two summers have been unbearably hot. I thought it was me becoming "menopausal" and being unable to take the heat any more, but even locals have commented that they have never experienced anything like it in their lives.

At the end of July this year, the extreme heatwave claimed 17 lives in the Canary Islands and in August the islands were put on a state of alert over 40 degree temperatures.

They certainly well surpassed that here.

August is a month when you "know" it is just going to be sunny and hot and can plan accordingly. Companies and government departments simply close down for the entire month. Not so in August 2002 when my neighbours were trying to paint the outside of the house and it rained every day. (Yeah, I though too that now they know how the British live!)

Wired mentions an increase in tick-borne diseases. I've already had one cat running a fever of 104 degrees as a result of a tick infestation - despite preventative treatments and regular inspections. I have also noticed that the "tick season" is getting longer too. This may seem like a small thing, but prevention and treatments cost money and my expenditure has already doubled in the last three years.

With more storms, high winds and heavier winter rains, it is becoming clear that even here, the houses that were adequate for the climate several years ago, are no longer prepared for it.

It seems to me that if such small changes in temperature can cause such large changes in daily life already, it is hard to see how one can adapt.

Of course, the Canary Islands are only loosely, politically, affiliated to Europe. Geographically, they are Africa, of course. Neither is of that much importance when this has clearly been shown to be a world-wide phenomenon.

Climate change is a far greater threat to the world than international terrorism

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Tenerife doesn't need to seek excuses to have a party, but a visit from Real Madrid on Nov 10 certainly provides one and will also hopefully draw a much needed injection of cash for the club.

It will give players and fans alike a chance to re-live the heyday when CD Tenerife were in the Primera league and amongst Spain's top sides.

KO for this Kings Cup match is 21.30 local time and though I have never been to a soccer match before, it was sorely tempting to go to one this important. However, apart from the fact that the 24,000 capacity stadium will likely be full, I don't think they do areas for undecided supporters.

As a resident, of course I should be routing for the home team and, as a Brit, I should follow our natural penchant for supporting the undererdog. Real are the dog's do-dahs though and they do have, arguably, England's finest on their side.

What's a girl to do?

This would be an easy decision for my mother. Eighty years young and she has this "thing" for Michael Owen. I hope he doesn't mind!

In one report there was some doubt over whether the match would go out live on TV or later: the decision to made by the company holding the rights to the broadcast of these fixtures.

More: Reuters via CNN and The Star Online
CD Tenerife website, English Fan Site and Armada Sur - The official site for International supporters of CD Tenerife Football Club.

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CanaryNet Breves de Cultura (Culture Briefs) alerted me to the existence of the new website for Santa Cruz' Teatro Guimerá.

Whilst it doesn't offer an English version, they have colour coded the various forms of entertainment and I defy anyone to need a translator for teatro, danza, musica or varios!

Gives information about the theatre as well as dates and times for the various performances.

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On this day, November, 5th in 1991, the body of the millionaire newspaper publisher, Robert Maxwell, was found in the sea off the coast of Tenerife. Source BBC

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Mariposa Production specialize in locations, models and props for film shoots, advertising, etc., here in the Canaries.

Therefore, as you would expect, their website features galleries of photos that are far above the standard of snapshots that most of us us mere morals can produce! They capture the essence, beauty and contrasts of the islands so well you can feel it through the screen.

Click here to drool over these locations in Tenerife »

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Holiday plane-spotters and other big kids, you're in for a treat!

I'm not allowed to post any copies or thumbnails here, so you'll just have to trust my judgement that it will be really well worth your time to click on the following links to see some really fantastic photos of planes at Tenerife Sur (Reina Sofia) airport.

My selections are based mainly on scenic qualities and something that makes them recognizable as being Tenerife. However good, anonymous bits of airport or unidentified sky didn't cut it!

(All links open in new windows, so you don't get lost.)

1. Novair Boeing 737 Departing from runway 08 with the mountains and Pico del Teide in the background
   
   
2. Edelweiss Air Airbus A320-214 Departing on runway 08 with Mt. Teide dominating the background
   
   
3. Condor Airbus A320-212 Arriving on runway 08 with Mt. Teide in the background
   
   
4. MyTravel Airways Airbus A320-214 on powerful initial climb in front of Pico de Teide!
   
   
5. Maersk Air Boeing 737 Pico de Teide and cablecar visible in the background
   
   
6. Volar Airlines Airbus A321-211 on final approach to runway 08 from Nantes. The cone of Mount Teide is blurred by jet blast just behind the main gear
   
   
7. Air 2000 Airbus A321-211 with Pico de Teide in the frame
   
   
8. MyTravel Airways Boeing 757 Great scenery with snowy Teide in the background
   
   
9. Air Berlin Boeing 737 on the runway, looking out to sea, with the famous rock at El Medano in the background
   
   
10. Futura International Airways Boeing 737-86N also looking out to El Medano. You can even sea the beach.
    
    
11. From the cockpit just before touchdown on RWY08
    (Got to admit that I've nabbed this one for my desktop wallpaper. Now, I can pretend I'm driving the bus! :-)
    
    
12. Fantastic detail of what's going on on the ground in and around the airport, viewed on final approach to runway 08 The runway looks so short from this angle!
    
    
13. Luxair Boeing 737-5C9 A few seconds before landing on rwy 08 on a cloudy day with resort-style "model village" below.
    
    
14. View down to Reina Sofia airport, during our climbing to cruising altitude Brilliant view with sea, towns, roads, banana plantations and all kinds of intricate detail.
    
    

And just in case you're interested, here's Tenerife Sur - Reina Sofia (TFS / GCTS) airport terminal from the outside and the inside. Same as every other airport, distinguished mainly by the sign!

And these are just a tiny sampling from over a thousand photos at Tenerife south at Airliners.net and MyAviation.net. Go play!

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Canaries Live have several galleries of photos covering; Santa Cruz, Puerto de la Cruz, Los Cristianos, Playa de las Americas, Loro Parque, Teide National Park, Playa de las Teresitas and more. Click here to enter the galleries »

The Cabildo - Island Council - building and post office seen behind the memorial in the Plaza de España in, Santa Cruz, the island's capital shown above. Santa Cruz is both capital and port of the island. With it's plethora of art and architecture, boulevard cafes and leafy parks, it is as good as any mediteranean city.

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