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Hot tips for Tenerife’s top tapas

Thursday, April 26th, 2007
A tapas contest is one of the more unusual features of colourful celebrations to mark the anniversary of the founding of the Tenerife capital of Santa Cruz. A full range of events is planned for the week-long festival, starting on Sunday April 29 and continuing through to Sunday May 6. They take place across the city, but mainly in Plaza del Príncipe, Parque García Sanabria and Calle La Noria. The colourful series of events include an International Marionette Festival, several other puppet shows, an exhibition of flowers, a concert of Canarian music, and a flower crosses workshop and competition. The whole city will be decked out with traditional floral crosses and the highlight of the programme will be on the evening of May 2, a Great Canarian Fiesta with traditional Canarian dress a prominent feature. In 1999, the party, known as the Dance of Magicians, went ...

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Comments: Leave a Comment » Categories: All about Tenerife, Culture, Festivals, History, Locations, May celebrations, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Tapas, Tourism, eating

Storm in a coffee cup

Sunday, April 15th, 2007
Disenchantment with politics and politicians has led many to the view that our leaders are completely out of touch with the problems of everyday living. The Prime Minister of Spain, José Luis Zapatero, had to deal with just such an allegation in the build up to the country’s forthcoming elections when he took part in a live question and answer session on television. Did he know the price of a cup of coffee, he was asked by a member of the audience. He thought it was about 80 cents, a response that was greeted with much laughter by those in the studio, who were quick to accuse him of being out of touch with reality. The following day the Spanish press, quick to latch on to his obvious discomfort, despatched reporters to all corners of the kingdom to conduct a nationwide survey. They discovered that in most towns and cities across the peninsula a cup ...

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Comments: 1 Comment so far » Categories: All about Tenerife, Coffee, Culture, José Luis Zapatero, Tourism

Exhibition reveals the secrets of old underwear

Saturday, April 14th, 2007
A hundred years of underwear is the unlikely theme of an exhibition currently being staged at the Museum of Anthropology in Tenerife. The years in question are from 1850-1950 and the exhibition includes more than 60 items of clothing that were once worn by men and women of the island, the grandparents, or even great-grandparents of today’s younger generation. The purpose of the exhibition is to show the rapid evolution in the design and use of materials in that time. The lingerie items that make up the exhibition are particularly well conserved because many of them have been hidden away in the depths of the museum for many years. Bodices, girdles, corsets, petticoats, nightdresses and other, more intimate items, including a heavy hand-knitted brassiere worn in the early 1900s, are included in the exhibition, part of the 20th anniversary celebrations of Casa de Carta in Valle de Guerra, ...

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Comments: Leave a Comment » Categories: All about Tenerife, Culture, History, La Laguna, Museums

Canadian film heads festival nominations

Friday, April 6th, 2007
The Tenerife International Film Festival gets under way towards the end of this month, bringing together a mix of popular English and foreign language films and small-budget offerings from independent film makers. The event is based around the playground resort of Playa de las Americas in the south of the island from April 21-28. Taking the lion’s share of award nominations is a Canadian film, ‘Tripping the Wire’, which is nominated in six of the eleven categories, namely best film, best actor and actress, best supporting actor and actress and best director. A two-hour murder mystery set in Montreal and directed by Canadian director Stephen Surjik, Tripping the Wire stars Clark Johnson as street-wise detective Stephen Tree, who is struggling to keep a past crime of his own secret as he attempts to solve the brutal murder of a man set on ...

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Comments: Leave a Comment » Categories: All about Tenerife, Culture, Festivals, Films, Playa de las Americas

Street arts festival crams in a lot

Thursday, March 22nd, 2007
MUECA 2007 kicks off tomorrow (Friday March 23), bringing another dimension to the cultural diversity of Puerto de la Cruz in the north of Tenerife. The International Street Arts Festival, now in its third year, takes place in the central streets, squares and around the harbour of Puerto, with a staggering 73 performances lined up over the three days. Entry to most of the activities is free. Last year the festival drew an estimated 15,000 visitors to the town. This event is a cultural showcase for Canarian innovation in comedy, theatre, dancing, music, photography, painting. These include shows such as a vertical dance group, who perform on the sides of buildings; a theatre company who out their audiences in boats to tell them stories about sailors and fishermen; a story kitchen where tales are told to the accompaniment of the flavours and aromas ...

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