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This weekend's date for your diary - well certainly for ours, I think - is the Feria de Artesanía de Garachico (Garachico Craft Fair) to be held this Saturday and Sunday, July 1 and 2, in the Plaza de la Libertad, right in the center of the north Tenerife town.

In previous editions, the fair has gathered together around 70 crafters, plus typical stalls where visitors can taste the local Canarian gastronomy; cakes, sweets, liqueurs, honey; fruit, flowers, plants, etc., as well as book stalls with books by Canarian authors and themes. The fair will also have traditional toys and games and various performances of Canarian folk music.

Feria de Artesanía de Garachico

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Tenerife born professional basketball player, Sergio Rodríguez, is to play in the US National Basketball Association (NBA) next season for the Portland Trail Blazers. He was drafted 27th by the Phoenix Suns in the 2006 NBA Draft, and then traded to the Portland Trail Blazers for cash considerations soon after his name was called. In the next few days, Portland will offer him a contract for two seasons, with an option for a third. Rodríguez is expected to go to the US next week for the medical and to sign on the dotted line.

It is reported that the Trail Blazers will have to pay just under €500,000 to release Rodríguez from his present contract with Madrid team, CB Estudiantes. In the first season, Sergio will earn €740,000, rising to €760,000 in the second and €780,000 for the hypothetical third season.

Sergio Rodríguez jugará en los Trail Blazers
"Todavía no me lo creo"

Interesting observation: With Mount Hood overlooking Portland (a dormant stratovolcano, just as is Tenerife's Mount Teide - and only 288 meters difference between their heights), the scenery at least should make Rodríguez feel at home. He might find it a bit cold and wet compared to his native island though!

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One of the most popular places to visit in Tenerife is the pretty village of Masca, reached by rollercoaster roads to where it is nestling in a deep gorge in the Teno Mountains, in the district of Buenavista del Norte, Tenerife.

This week, representatives of the insular administration visited the historic site to verify its current state, in large part, upon the request of the residents' association in the village.

The Island Commission for Historic Heritage, who visited on June 27, is part of the Island Corporation and is made up of representatives from the University of La Laguna, The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, the College of Architects and the Canarian Association of Historic Building Owners, as well as the Bishopric.

The other motive for their visit was to reactivate the elaboration of a special protection plan for this fragile area of the Teno Rural Park.

La Comisión de Patrimonio se traslada hasta Masca, en Buenavista del Norte

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Earlier this month, local media carried the tragic story of a mother and son who had both been found dead in their home in the town of Los Silos, north Tenerife.

The son was found, having hanged himself from the rafters, at the foot of his mother's bed. It was initially thought that he had taken his own life after she died, being unable to face life without her. Results of the autopsy, now reveal that the son had ended his mother's life by asphyxiation, before taking his own.

The mother, María Esther Luis Alegría (75) had been bedridden for around five years, after undergoing a kidney transplant that was rejected. She had been attended day and night by her son, Sergio Hernández Luis (44), who was, himself, partially disabled. The two, María Esther appearing as if sleeping soundly, had been found by a neighbour who had called every morning to fetch prescriptions.

Such excess of dedication to a sick relative, so often on the part of a son or daughter, whose own lives, work and future are placed on indefinite hold while they become absorbed in the sickness around them, ends up creating two patients, as appears to have been the case with Sergio Hernández Luis.

El joven hallado muerto en Los Silos supuestamente mató antes a su madre

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The Tenerife Tourism site have a selection of downloads at this page, which you might find interesting.

There are eight wallpaper images to choose from, which include some of the usual suspects, such as Pico del Teide (The Peak of Tenerife's, Mount Teide).

Or you can choose a colorful view of the rocky coast and marine depths, the mystical, misty world of the ancient laurisilva (subtropical cloud forest endemic to the islands), or perhaps Icod de los Vinos' famous drago tree, silhouetted against the sunset.

The images are only 800x600 screen size, but, what they lack in quantity, they make up for in quality.

As well as the wallpapers, at the same page, you can also download various general and specific PDF brochures about the island, such as; Tenerife and the Sea brochure, Tenerife Golf brochure, Tenerife Natural brochure, Tenerife Select brochure and an 11 Mb zipped file of a Tenerife Map.

Tenerife Downloads: Brochures, Wallpaper & Map

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The Luxury Travel Fair, organized by the prestigious magazine, Condé Nast Traveller, presents the potential tourist with the most exclusive destinations in the world. The the UK's first luxury travel fair is on in London now, from 29 June - 2 July 2006, at Olympia.

The Tenerife Island Corporation, via Turismo de Tenerife and their luxury brand, Tenerife Select, is at the show to present the island's most exclusive offerings and, is the only Spanish destination being represented.

Tenerife Select brings under one banner, an important group of hotels, restaurants and leisure companies with high levels of excellence.

Tenerife será el único destino español en la feria londinense Luxury Travel Show

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Tenerife Boxing: European and Commonwealth super-featherweight champion Alex Arthur is heading for Tenerife for altitude training. The Edinburgh fighter will make the trip with his mentor, ex-WBC super-bantamweight champion Wayne McCullough, as soon as the IBF decides who his opponent will be in an eliminator to challenge IBF world champion Cassius Bayloi.

Arthur set to hit heights on training trip

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Scotland-based airline Flyglobespan is launching two new services to Tenerife – from Aberdeen and Durham Tees Valley airports. The routes will begin in November, in time for people to get some winter sun at the Canary Islands destination. Tickets will be priced from £49.99 one-way, including taxes.

Flyglobespan offers Tenerife link from Aberdeen and Durham

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Book by midnight on Friday, June 30: Thomsonfly has released 10,000 seats to the Canary Islands at £34.99 one-way including taxes. There are flights to Tenerife from Doncaster, Bournemouth, London Luton and Gatwick, Cardiff, Newcastle, Birmingham, Nottingham East Midlands and Manchester.

Thomsonfly Via: Cheapflights

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We're well known for getting the signs and the translations right here in Tenerife (not). This sign is for an Industrial Hostelry (Catering?) Service in a place called Terrassa, where they obviously have no idea what their initials mean in other languages. Don't forget Tenerife also begins with a "T". Oh, it could so easily happen! :)

Image borrowed from here (they have more too).

Labels: Translation Hooters

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LOW cost airline Monarch has recently announced it's to launch brand new flights from London Gatwick to Tenerife, with three flights a week operating from October 29 this year. To celebrate the launch of this exciting new route, the Mid Sussex Times has teamed up with Monarch to offer one lucky reader the chance to win a pair of return flights to 'the island of eternal spring.'

Contest details and rules can be found here

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Fifty thousand people come to live in the Canary Islands every year, 20,000 of them from outside the European Union. This population increase, according to the "official figures", has brought the population density to 528 inhabitants per square kilometer, a figure only surpassed by Madrid and an increase that Canary Islands President, Adán Martín, considers to be unsustainable.

There are those, however, and logic seems to follow their argument, who have been saying this for years and maintain that, once you take the large tracts of land in the islands that are not inhabited (and that are unable to be inhabited) out of the equation, the real population density in the inhabited areas of the Canary Islands is similar to and is well on its way to overtaking that of Japan, Singapore, or Hong Kong and, close to that of the Maldive Islands.

Martín, responding to questions from an opposition (Popular Party) spokesman, said that his government is conscious of the increase in immigration, but that the rate of arrivals has not decreased in the last five years, independently of the measures taken to control the situation.

While the opposition spokesman recognized that the immigration phenomenon is a complex problem, which has it's origin in the imbalance in the world, he also laid blame to what he called the "foolish" policies of the Socialist central government.

For my own part, pointing fingers and blaming - which seems to be all the opposition can do - does nothing whatsoever to to solve anyone's problem and it is hard to see how it can be central government's problem (for a start it predates their term) that there are "haves" and "have nots" in all parts of the world, who see emigration as their only hope of survival. This is not the Canaries' problem. It is not even Spain or the EU's problem: this is humanity's problem.

The question is, will we ever have the wisdom to solve it?

Adán Martín afirma que el crecimiento de la población actual es insostenible

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Former president Bill Clinton’s visit to Tenerife last year was a high point in the career of many a local politico who managed to squeeze in a photo op with the great man. But the question of how much Mr Clinton was paid for his speech, which he gave at the Tenerife Auditorio still rankled with others.

Now all has been revealed. The bill to Blex SL, a public institution, was a cool $350,000. Together with a gig in Calgary, which also netted him $350,000, Tenerife was Bill Clinton’s top earner on his 2005 speech circuit.

Tenerife was tops for Clinton

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A Polish burglar known to Tenerife police as “El Spiderman” was arrested in Los Cristianos while engaged on another perilous break-in job – just a few hours after he had been released on parole from Tenerife II jail. He had been serving time for burglary.

Spiderman arrested – again!

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That's what La Opinión called the traditional Romería de San Isidro Labrador that took place in La Orotava on Sunday. This year was the 70th Anniversary of the fiesta that was started in 1936. On the first occasion, there were a few folk musicians and four borrowed carts, decorated with palm fronds.

This year, 75 carts and around 25,000 people took part - and they couldn't have had any more carts, because, apparently, there aren't any more yokes for the oxen on the island. There were also around 15,000 spectators for the event too, which is popular with tourists for the vibrant colour it brings to the streets with so many people dressed as magos - in traditional Canarian costume.

This kind of folk fiesta in the Canary Islands is not really a spectator sport - despite their beauty - because the best way to enjoy it is to dress up and join in. What makes someone a participant? Merely being dressed correctly, which is what Jallen, who is visiting from Missouri, USA did. These are his photos from around Orotava and from being a participant on Sunday.

Events of the day began with a mass at 11 a.m. after which two Icons; San Isidro Labrador and Santa María de La Cabeza, headed the parade of politicians, ox carts, camels, groups of musicians and, above all, people, through the town's streets, which took five hours. It would be hard to stay away from the music, the food and the wine components anyway, but just to make sure nobody gets hungry en route, many of the carts are fitted with barbeques on the back. Someone's job is to walk behind and flip the grilling meats. :)

OK if you can walk and chew gum, I suppose and, so long as you can handle the copious quantities of wine that are sure to be flowing around you! This is the fertile Orotava valley, after all, where many of the islands vines grow.

Kids are not left out either. One of the growing customs in recent years has been the number of push chairs decorated as mini-carts that resemble the ox pulled variety, with the little one inside also dressed in traditional costume.

The fiesta also has it's Reina (Queen) and new this year were dancers who danced around a pole with ribbons, much as we would know as a Maypole. And a team of thirty coordinators were distributed along the route, just to make sure that everything went along with order and fluidity. More photos »

La Villa y el Liceo cumplen 70 romerías
"La Fiesta más bonita de Canarias"

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Well, we may not have got much advance warning of the air show that took place in Santa Cruz, Tenerife, last Sunday morning, however, we do have photos to show you. If they give us a bit more notice next time, hopefully, we'll have more. The photo (right) is of the Patrulla Águila - Spain's answer to the Red Arrows - over Santa Cruz. There's another shot here.

There were parachutists, helicopters, rescue planes and a noisy F-18, which apparently surprised the thousands of spectators (kids, young and old) at the port in the island's capital with their perfectly synchronized show. Diario de Avisos have the story and more photos here. And La Opinión have a really great capture with this story, the caption says, "A pigeon appears to imitate the Patrulla Águila, at the exact moment that they break formation."

El espectáculo quedó garantizado en el Primer Festival Aéreo de Tenerife
Santa Cruz, capital de la aviación militar
Acróbatas de acero

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They have only said they want one, but this is a step in the right direction, hopefully. There is really very little provision for animals anywhere on this island, but this corner - and Icod is the nearest sizable town - is more lacking than most. There is no provision at all. Icod councillors are bringing the matter up and need the support of all the town halls in the Isla Baja area; Garachico, Buenavista, El Tanque and Los Silos, to give the request the necessary weight.

Icod town hall is prepared to cede the land for the refuge to be built, if the Island Corporation agrees, which will then be run by animal protection associations.

Security for residents, drivers and the animals themselves, are the principal arguments for the construction of a refuge, as well as the sanitary problems that can be derived from numerous abandoned animals in the area's streets.

Animals associations are also calling for an agreement to be made between local vets and road maintenance, so that animals injured in road accidents can be taken to the professionals, if only for a civilized and humane end to their suffering. Apparently, the common procedure at the moment is for road maintenance staff to put an end to the animals with their tools of work.

Icod solicita un refugio de animales para la zona Noroeste de la Isla

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Electricity company in Tenerife, Unelco-Endesa, yesterday began work on dismantling an eight kilometre stretch of the high-tension supply line, which includes 59 pylons, between Santa Úrsula and La Orotava.

These works will complete the burial of this line, which was started in 2000, between Icod de los Vinos and La Orotava - 26.5 kilometers of the main 66 kilowatt supply line for the north of the island.

The event was considered important enough that yesterdays works were started at 10 a.m. in the presence of La Orotava's mayor, Isaac Valencia and the Provincial Director of Unelco-Endesa, José Manuel de la Cruz.

Regular readers will know that the hanging cable spaghetti we have everywhere on this island is one of my pet hates, so I am pleased to read that - finally - someone agrees. The report goes on to say that this will be a great environmental improvement. I have no doubts that it will also make the supply more reliable and less liable to suffer outages, caused by storms, winds and rain.

Can we have more cabling put underground please?

Unelco comienza hoy el desmonte de 59 torres eléctricas

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Gary Rosson seems to feel the way I do, as he says, "I make no apologies for saying that I love the island of Tenerife. I own a home on the island and get very annoyed with ignorant ‘travellers’ who book a ‘cheapo’ package holiday in the sun and come back complaining of ‘beer-swilling Brits’ and ‘concrete jungle resorts’."

"Tenerife has an abundance of package holiday commercialism in a small stretch of coast in the south-west, which does not give an accurate representation of Tenerife anymore than Blackpool does for England. After all, The Lake District is only a few miles away from Blackpool! Any serious visitor to Tenerife will soon realise that there is far more to the island than Playa de las Americas."

Discovering the Real Tenerife

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After twenty years at the helm, Víctor Pablo Pérez is to leave his post as principle conductor with the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra. Speculation as to his successor has been rife in recent months. Several names were said to be in contention, but now all has been revealed with the news that the position has fallen to Chinese-born Lu Jia, widely regarded as one of the most outstanding conductors to have emerged from Asia in recent years.

Lu Jia to takes over the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra

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Demands for slots in Canary airports for this winter are said to be up by an average of 17% by comparison with last year. The Spanish civil aviation authority AENA announced it has received a substantial increase in requests from a number of airline companies and the probability is that space will be found for all the extra flights.

Winter bonanza for the Canary Islands?

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Councillor for Culture, Miguel Delgado, paid a visit to the Parsonage of the Anglican All Saints Church in Puerto de la Cruz in Tenerife to check on the works currently being carried out to restore this "splendid relic of a quasi-colonial past." Quite right too, as the Island Corporation is paying the €256,932.67 for the work.

Restoration of the house, close to the Casino Taoro and which dates from 1890-1891, includes disassembling the wrought iron work, renovation of the water and electrical supplies, treatment of the woodwork and carpentry for the doors and windows. It is hoped the restoration will be completed by the end of 2006.

El Cabildo supervisa la restauración de la casa parroquial anglicana de Puerto de la Cruz

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Details and progress of the remodelling project for the Plaza de España in Tenerife's capital, Santa Cruz, currently being carried out by Swiss architects, Herzog and De Meuron, are now online at a special website.

The Tenerife Corporation took the decision to launch the site so that the local population is kept informed about the project, by all possible methods. Equally, that the new image of Santa Cruz is projected to the whole world.

The latest is that over the next few days, work will begin on digging three wells that will server to pump sea water into a circular man-made lake - which will also have an fountain - to be the central focus of the new plaza.

El proyecto de remodelación de la Plaza de España, en Internet

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A HOLIDAY in Tenerife should be about more than year-round warmth and sunshine; it should also be about terrific food and fine wine. And it's not just Spanish and international dishes on offer here; there is a distinctive local cuisine that is really worth seeking out. Although broadly Spanish-based, the food in Tenerife also has influences from nearby north Africa and the Americas, since the Canary Islands were a stop-over point for ships travelling between the Old and New Worlds. One of the best ways to discover the local cuisine is to take a gastronomic tour.

Take a gastronomic tour of Tenerife

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Despite all the local and European Union patrols and other measures in place, the boats just keep on coming. The Coastguard have rescued 39 illegal immigrants from a vessel which had been adrift at sea for two days, since setting off from Morocco on Friday morning. Another three boatloads of illegal immigrants arrived on the Canary Islands on Saturday, 187 in total that day.

More than 200 illegal immigrants reach the Canaries at the weekend

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As well as wine country, this is very definitely goat country. It always makes me smile that if people in this area put stickers or ornaments on their cars they are of goats. Even the relatively modern idea of graffiti, here depicts the age old tradition of goat herding in Tenerife - which predates the 15th Century Spanish conquest. Is that a robot alongside? A "future goat" perhaps? I love these juxtapositions, because they seem to sum up the local psyche.

This photo is part of this set of photos from Tenerife.

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The West and Central Africans are seen as Spain's main immigration problem, despite the fact that they only constitute a small minority among the country's more than two-million immigrants from outside the European Union. Spain's West and Central Africans have hardly ever been linked with violent crime, and the Canary Islanders' fear that they bring diseases has proven unfounded so far. Why, then, are the Africans seen as such a big problem that the European Union is sending ships and aeroplanes to patrol the West African coast?

African migrants reawaken ancient prejudices in Spain

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Now they tell us! Local newspapers, Canarias7 and Diario de Avisos, both have headlines this morning about the First Canary Islands Air Show that is taking place today, both in Santa Cruz in Tenerife and Las Palmas in Gran Canaria.

The Air Show in Santa Cruz, organized jointly by the Town Hall and the Spanish Air Force, with collaboration from the port authority, is obliging Binter Airways to reschedule their flights, with some postponements and cancellations, as the airport of Los Rodeos will be closed to normal traffic for two hours.

From 11 a.m. various units of the Air Force will participate in the exhibition, which includes a simulation by rescue services, four F-18's of 46th Wing, a P-3 Orión from the base at Morón de la Frontera (Seville), the air force parachute team and the Patrulla Águila whose base is at San Javier (Murcia). With 21 seasons, 13 missions and 420 exhibitions (110 over foreign soil) behind them, the Águila is the Spanish equivalent of the RAF aerobatics team, the Red Arrows.

Meanwhile, 25,000 spectators are expected to congregate on the beach of Las Canteras in Gran Canaria, where a similar lineup of 20 aircraft and a team of 120, provides the show in honour of the island's capital, Las Palmas' 528th birthday.

Diario de Avisos story, is really only about Binter apologizing to passengers about delays and redirecting flights to the south. The information about the Air Show - finally something really grand and of interest to just about any age and nationality - is merely mentioned casually at the end. I don't get it!

This is the first news I have read about the air show - too late to get there from this side of the island (which I would have liked to have done), let alone plan to come from abroad - which is not at all unusual here, but is disgraceful when you think that these islands thrive on tourism. Admittedly, I don't watch much TV, where it may have been mentioned, but then, seeing that will be in Spanish, neither will visitors either. Otherwise, if the air show has been announced previously in the press, I'm guessing it was in small print in an inside page.

You might wonder why I called this site "Secret Tenerife". Partly because there are areas of the island that the average visitor does not normally find and I live in one of them, of course. The other is precisely this: that there is almost never any widespread advance warning of events, which do render them virtually secret.

Ah well, we'll just keep our eyes out for the Second Canary Islands Air Show.

El I Festival Aéreo en el puerto obliga a cerrar hoy durante dos horas Los Rodeos
25.000 personas presencian el festival de destreza acrobática del Ejército

NOTE: Because my late father served in the Royal Air Force, during WWII, I was previously secretary of the Tenerife branch of the Royal British Legion and whose website I still maintain. Fortunately, I have already seen both the Patrulla Águila and the Red Arrows perform (and met the pilots :) at air shows in the south of England. But I am particularly sorry to have missed this one today and highly recommend these events for a spectacular day out!

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As Tenerife News say, "By a trick of the calendar - and a highly movable feast - the penultimate week of June sees a plethora of fiestas and folksy events taking place in Tenerife which combine all the hectic colour and frenetic energy of the Corpus Christi celebrations in La Orotava (which this year falls late) with all the magic and mystery of the San Juan rituals (which coincide with the solstice)."

Wednesday was the Solstice, Thursday was the Day of the Carpets, last night was Bonfire night. Bonfire night, in Spain and the Canary Islands is on June 23rd. It's a night of fire, water, spells and rituals in which thousands of people burn their desires and dance around the fires that are lit in every town and village.

Last night, here in the valley, the air was filled with the scent of the purifying fire of the Hogueras de San Juan (Bonfires of Saint John). The actual origins of the celebrations of the shortest night of the year, the 23rd of June, eve of the festivity of San Juan, are lost in the remote past. This pagan festival was integrated into the catholic calendar because of its proximity to the festivity of Juan Bautista (John the Baptist), which is celebrated on the 24th of June.

People jump acrobatically over the bonfires. See the photo with the story at La Opinion. Jumping the fire is supposed to help you avoid aches and pains, but surely, if you are ABLE to jump the fire, you are probably therefore fit enough not to suffer aches and pains in the first place. :) The Noche de San Juan has created all kinds of fantastic legends, which are best taken with a pinch of salt. LosGigantes.com explain some of these ancient superstitions.

Puerto de la Cruz has one of the island's largest celebrations of this fiesta. They also have the traditional Baño de las cabras (Bath, baptism, or dipping of goats) today at the old fishing port. Yes, I am sure that sea water is great at cleaning off the odd parasite and helping to heal any small cuts and grazes the animals might have, which is one of the other, original motives for this ritual.

Tenerife News say that this happens in the morning. Maybe it does, usually, but both Canarias7 and Canarynet say that it is tonight at 20:00 (8 p.m.) Either way, "If you've never seen a goat swim, now's your chance, and if you never knew how stubborn they can be in the face of a dousing, now's the time to find out!"

June?s high days ? and magic nights

Fiestas de San Juan de Puerto de La Cruz
Tradicional Baño de las cabras
El fuego purificador en la noche más corta
Llamas por San Juan
Noche de San Juan at Playa Jardin del Puerto de la Cruz (Photo)

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The XV Festival Internacional Canarias Jazz & Más Heineken features artists such as saxophonist, David Sanborn; former Crusaders keyboard player Joe Sample & legend, Randy Crawford, among others, during the festival, which runs from June 30th to July 9th, throughout the seven islands.

Here in Tenerife, Sanborn plays at the Plaza de Europa, Puerto de la Cruz on June 30th. Joe Sample & Randy Crawford will play the Auditorio de Tenerife, in the capital, Santa Cruz, on July 8th.

For a full list of the Tenerife concerts see the festival website

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Fijacion Oral vol. 1 ShakiraColombian Latin pop singer-songwriter, Shakira, is to play two dates in the Canary Islands.

First in Gran Canaria on Monday, July 3, then she plays the Estadio Heliodoro Rodríguez (Football Stadium) in Santa Cruz, Tenerife on Wednesday, July 5th.

Conciertos de Shakira en Canarias

Tickets are available from www.lmproducciones.com,
El Corte Inglés, Manzana Tipo and Viajes Insular.

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Photo: Diario de Tenerife

The Tenerife Cabildo (Island Corporation) has increased information available to tourists visiting areas of the Teno Rural Park recently, with the installation of information panels, posters, etc. The rural park management started the initiative in May, visiting bars restaurants and other establishments (it's a tough job!) in the main nuclei of the area, such as Masca, Las Portelas, Las Lagunetas, El Palmar, Teno Alto and Erjos.

The campaign has also been installed in other areas of public use, such as the Albergue de Bolico (hostel) in Las Portelas; the Mercadillo del Agricultor (Farmers Market) in El Palmar and the camping site at Los Pedregales.

We won't be a relative secret for much longer! These things are all around me, but I haven't come across one yet, in person, so I can't tell you whether they also include English information and, if so, if it is truly in English. We can hope.

El Cabildo amplía la oferta informativa en el Parque Rural de Teno

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With summer likely to hot up any moment and, with it the increased risk of fires, the Cabildo of Tenerife has restricted the access of motor vehicles to the island’s forest trails, prohibiting any motor vehicle except for those allowed under law.

New vehicle regulations for forest trails

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Members of the Spanish Parliament have asked the Government to study the effects of air pollution in the largest towns and cities of the Canary Islands. The Canary Islands’ study will also take into account the inclusion of the frequent calimas that envelope the islands when the wind blow