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Tenerife Doctor’s Appointment and Electronic Prescriptions

Health, Hospitals, Clinics, Dentist and Medical Care in Tenerife
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I have posted about this before but just want to remind expat residents in Tenerife that there is a way to book your social security doctor’s appointment’s online. Called Cita Previa it requires only that you have your social security on hand when you visit so that you might complete the required ID field. For [...]

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Tenerife Property – 5 Common Mistakes Made by Home Buyers

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Searching for Property Online with No Clear Plan There is a lot of great property in Tenerife.  Many of the houses and apartments for sale right now look so fabulous in the photographs displayed on the estate agent website that it is easy to get distracted from your actual requirements.  Don’t start your online search until [...]

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Put that Book Down! Active Holidays in Tenerife

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Sometimes all you want to do on your holidays is sack out by the pool with a block-buster, sipping cocktails all day. If you have a stressful job for the rest of the year, that two weeks of bliss can even make the previous 50 seem worthwhile. I know because I have been there, done that [...]

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Tenerife Property – Complex Management by Committee

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When people first move to Tenerife and rent in a complex or buy property which is contained within a complex, they can sometimes find that the community management is a little … well … complicated. Take my neighbour, for example.  When she and her husband moved into this community they embarked on a home improvement [...]

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Is The Sunshine Returning To The Tenerife Property Market?

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At a time when the global property sector is struggling through never-ending doom and gloom, here in Tenerife,  there does seem to be a small break in the clouds. Many people on the island suffered through the first years of the economic crash as the crisis sank its claws into the markets of UK and [...]

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Tenerife Health – Candelaria Hospital – Know Before You Go!

Health, Hospitals, Clinics, Dentist and Medical Care in Tenerife
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If you are in the social health system in Tenerife, chances are that at some point you or a loved one may be shipped off to Candelaria to mend broken bones, jump start a failing heart or give birth to a bouncing new baby. The medical care you receive will be exemplary – possibly even [...]

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A Good Craic and Free Irish Stew in Costa Del Silencio

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There seems to be a bit of a positive buzz going on around the TreBol and Chapparal complexes in Costa Del Silencio. And not before time. Those bar and shop owners have had to put up with a great deal of disruption what with all the renovations and changes in the area. Some could hold [...]

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Tenerife Murderer Discharged from Psychiatric Unit in February

Crime

The citizens of Tenerife were united in horror and disbelief yesterday. Since the first few details were released about the tragic events that transpired in the Valdez Centre one common thread running through the conversations in the street and in restaurants, bars and wherever people gathered was, ‘Not here! These things don’t happen in Tenerife!’ [...]

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Decapitation in Tenerife

Crime

Unbelievable as it may be a woman was beheaded in a Chinese todo shop in Valdez Centre, Los Cristianos this morning. I would not believe it myself if it were not that I know Colin Kirby who is presenting the very sober report you see below. Read Colin’s full report at Tenerife Magazine. Details are [...]

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Sponge Bob in Tenerife!

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Okay, if we are smart and think this through, we parents in Tenerife could make a strike for freedom that will be felt around the world. Yes, we can capture and ‘relocate’ Spongebob Squarepants. Just think, never again would Saturday mornings be disturbed by the dulcet tones of his nasal voice. And as for Patrick [...]

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