Tenerife’s first sitcom Re-writers
Well, he of the red pen, returned our sitcom efforts with a commendable amount of red scrawl, and the potential was deemed as neither yay, nor nay, but a solid maybe. Which is better than a slap in the...
View ArticleTaking Tenerife to task – not a hope in hell
There’s a lot to be said for the mañana attitude still so prevalent in Tenerife. Urgent tasks are re-classified as tomorrow’s duties, ‘priorities’ tossed into the same to-do-basket as everything else....
View ArticleThe Tenerife hills are alive with the sound of… just about everything
Living in the hills of Tenerife, the sights, sounds and smells seem amplified to epic proportions. Whether it’s the pungent smell of a dozen goats’ bottoms, the distant howling of my psycho neighbour,...
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Where the hell have you been?
Ok, I suppose the question should be ‘Where the flamin’ heck have I been?’ Well, all over the place actually, both geographically and career-wise. Since we last spoke, several major events have ocurred...
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Urgent appeal to all webmasters in Spain
As the father of two young children my heart bleeds for the family of teenager Amy Fitzpatrick who went missing over a year ago from Mijas, Spain. Perhaps we can all do our bit as webmasters to at...
View ArticleTalcum powder terror and a monster sardine – all part of life in Tenerife
Tenerife is a strange place. But no stranger than the other islands when it comes to bizarre Canary Island Carnival antics. After partaking in the odd, yet pleasantly fragrant Battle of the Powder in...
View ArticleNew Tenerife video
Joy is talking about cucumbers, fish and cow flesh on our new Sky Travel video We were supposed to be showing how cheap it is to shop at local markets, but half the buggers weren’t open when we got...
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A word about Istria
Red Island, Istria One of the questions you get asked a lot when you live in a tourist destination like Tenerife is, ‘Where do you go on holiday?’ Sensible question seeing as we’re all enjoying a...
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Why I talk to spoons.
Always nice to be considered a ‘successful’ something or other. I guess we all have our own markers as to what success means but I’m not so sure it’s as black and white as ‘successful’ or ‘not...
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Elephant wee…
2013 was an interesting year. One in which I learned many useful things, such as: it’s a universal law that elephants, cows, goats and dogs all take roughly 21 seconds to empty their bladders but my...
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