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Weather delays world record attempt

Saturday, April 21st, 2007
Stormy weather has forced Spanish hang-glider pilot Ramon Morillas to delay his attempt at a new world record distance in a powered paraglider. His record attempt, mostly over the Atlantic Ocean, will see him endeavour to cover the 1,350km (nearly 840 miles) from Jerez de La Frontera in southern Spain to Tenerife, a journey that will see him flying down the west coast of Africa. Ramon has timed his record bid to coincide with the third Los Realejos International Paragliding Festival, due to start on Friday (April 27) at Socorro beach in the north of Tenerife. The holder of five current FAI (Fédération Aéronautique Internationale) world records, Ramon now plans to start his epic flight on Monday (April 23), aiming to beat his own existing distance record of 951km. He will have with him a fuel load of 65kg and special safety equipment that includes ...

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Comments: Leave a Comment » Categories: All about Tenerife, Festivals, Los Realejos, Paragliding, Paragliding festival, Sport

Paragliding festival lures the world’s best

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007
The skies over Socorro beach in the north of Tenerife will be ablaze with colour between April 27 and May 1 when the third Los Realejos International Paragliding Festival takes place. The five-day festival will feature some of the world’s leading exponents of the arts of paragliding, hang gliding and parachuting. The festival has quickly established itself on the international schedule of paragliding events, due in no small part to the fact that Tenerife offers perfect all-year-round conditions for the sport. At the first staging of the event two years ago, two new world records were set, one for paramotor altitude at 5,395 metres and the other in acrobatics when 75 manoeuvres were achieved in a vertical tumble of 1,900 metres, massively overhauling the previous record of 30. The first day of this year’s festival will be devoted to a welcoming party, checking of participants’ ...

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Comments: Leave a Comment » Categories: All about Tenerife, Festivals, Los Realejos, Music, Paragliding, Paragliding festival, Sport, Tourism

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 Las Americas

Grand processions mark Holy Week in Tenerife

Saturday, March 31st, 2007
Palm Sunday marks the beginning of the most important week in the religious calendar in Tenerife, the start of Semana Santa, or Holy Week. Easter celebrations in Tenerife are known for their magnificent processions, which take place all over the island throughout the week, though the ones in La Laguna, La Orotava and Puerto de la Cruz are among the grandest. As the seat of the Bishop of Tenerife, the celebrations in La Laguna are the most important and culminate in the magnificent Magna procession on Viernes Santo (Good Friday, April 6), which starts at 5pm from the church of Nuestra Senora de la Concepcion, one of the oldest churches on the island, dating back to 1502. The Magna procession is followed by the Silence procession, starting at 9pm, in which all ...

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Comments: Leave a Comment » Categories: Adeje, All about Tenerife, Costa Adeje, Easter week, Festivals, Garachico, Guimar, La Laguna, La Orotava, Los Realejos, Puerto de la Cruz

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