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Why Buy a Business in Tenerife

John worked for fifteen years in the post office.  Now he runs his own bar in Tenerife. Teresa runs her own gift shop in Tenerife.  She worked for Tesco when she was in the UK. Kevin and Mary both worked in the Civil Service, but now they are proud restaurant owners in Tenerife. What is it about Tenerife...

Tenerife Tours – Booking Tip

Off to see the dolphins! Tenerife is absolutely bristling with tours, trips and things to do. From  theme parks to boat trips, quad bikes, rafting bikes, mountain-biking, horse-riding, sailing, scuba diving… shall I go on? If you are coming to the island with a large family in tow you will want to...

Tenerife Resident Alert – Don’t Buy Scammy PC to TV products

You know, as the webmaster of eTenerife, I do occasionally have a look around  the internet for products that might be of some value to Tenerife residents or holiday makers. If I can find something worthwhile that I might also make a commission on so much the better.  Actually I don’t really do...

More Pool Party Fun in Tenerife

Following on from the popular Tenerife Pool Balls post, I have some more ideas for pool party games for kids of all ages, kindly supplied by Duncan of Owners Direct who has quite clearly cracked his head on the bottom more than once. Pool Party Fun or Everyone We’re lucky enough to be enjoying a very...

Alejandro Fernandez in Concert in Tenerife

Mexican star Alejandro Fernandez made his first mark on the international charts via ranchero and mariachi music but soon added Latin pop and ballads to his repertoire. His 1997  album  Me Estoy Enamorando topped Billboard’s  Top Latin Albums chart and from it came several chart-topping singels...

Spanish Cafe – A Plague of Serpents

Yikes, looks like Gran Canaria is suffering from a plague of snakes! If you have a few minutes to practice your Spanish today then listen to the video in Spanish. And by the way… ¿Crees que se puede...

Do You Have to Learn Spanish to Learn Spanish?

I bumped into a Spanish friend that I haven’t seen recently and she had a good laugh at me as I mangled all the Spanish I had learned since I saw her last.  I told her I had been taking adult Spanish lessons at the Cutural Centre before the school broke up and said she would never have guessed....

Canny Sponsorship Opportunity with K9

Why do you think all the banks and large commercial companies publish a calender every year? Because it is such a great marketing ploy, that’s why! Years ago when I worked for a hotel group in Thailand, their annual calander was a huge deal and months of preparation and nail-biting went into the...

Protect Your Skin in Tenerife

Hasn’t the weather been weird? I remember having the kids in the car last year and driving up towards Granadilla de Abona. We were all gasping for breath because of the sun beating down on the car and the heat radiating back up from the road and that was in mid-June. Well it may have taken a bit...

Forget the Football, What About the Finiquito?

Okay, we all know there has to be some major belt tightening and the German government have made it clear that they don’t think that Spain is going to remain solvent for more than the next five minutes, but was it really necessary to slip the latest labour reforms in under the wire while the whole...

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