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insider tip – where to eat typical canarian dishes?

Friday, January 13th, 2012

On Tenerife you can find lots of restaurants, taverns and so called "Guachinches" distributed all over the isle. The Guachinche restaurants are typical for the canary isles and here you are served typical canarian dishes and specialties from the region.

The ambience in the guachinche is something really special. Normally those kinds of restaurants are established in garages or old canarian houses. It happened often to me that I wanted to visit a guachinche and didn't have any idea where to find one. As well as if you live for a longer time on the isle you don't know even the half of the guachinches and typical restaurants existing here. Now there is a site, on which you can get wonderful insider tips about guachinches, restaurants and taverns. The site is called "De Picoteo por Tenerife", which means something like ...

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Canary Center Shopping

Saturday, October 9th, 2010

La Paz is a noble residential area in Puerto de La Cruz with many habitants from Germany. Accordingly there are many german restaurants and coffee bars, shops and other facilities in La Paz (in english: peace). Nearly all the german shops are situated in the Canary Center, which is a shopping passage. Beside noble boutiques and other shops you can find here as well physiotherapists, traditional healer and medical consults (Deutsches Ärztehaus). The visitor can find a large variety of products, articels and services and can be attended in german or english for better understanding. In the Canary Center there are as well shops selling arts and crafts, lace and other souvenir articles. As well a jewelery is situated in the Canary Center. Who wants to enjoy german gastronomy can try different specialities in a tipical gourmet shop in the Canary Center. A health food ...

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Traditional cuisine and beautiful landscape

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

Tenerife is a paradise of nature, spoiled by a various landscape and a rich animal and plant world. One can watch dolphins and whales on the Ocean between the two islands Tenerife and La Gomera, neighbouring island. The Loro Parque, a wonderful zoo in Puerto de La Cruz, sustains over 1.000 different kinds of parrots is a visit worth. The Paisaje Lunar

For active holiday makers who like hiking and exploring the isle of Tenerife has a lot of wonderful mointain pathes to discover. One of the most popular destinations in Europe is Tenerife, primarily for it’s pleasant climate and spectaclular landscape. If you visit the isle of Tenerife, at least you should taste something from the traditional cuisine.The small idyllic restaurants offer a varied and palatable kitchen with ingredients like fish, seafood, ...

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Tenerife’s first organic market planned

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

Plans are in hand to give Tenerife its first organic farmers market. The town hall at Los Silos in the north west corner of the island hopes to have the organic market up and running by March of next year. The market will operate on Sunday mornings, though whether it will be a weekly, fortnightly or monthly event has still to be decided.

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Shakespeare’s Tenerife tipple making a comeback

Saturday, April 28th, 2007

Grape varieties used in wine making in Tenerife are among the few survivors of a disaster that struck the European wine industry nearly 150 years ago. An aphid from America was accidentally imported into France in 1860, destroying vines that had been refined and nurtured over hundreds, if not thousands of years. Phylloxera spread across the continent, bringing the European wine industry to its knees in little more than ten years. Wine producers turned to different grape varieties, mostly phylloxera-resistant imported from America, and slowly the industry recovered. Tenerife and the other islands in the Canarian archipelago survived the ravages of phylloxera and the ancient grape varieties that European settlers brought with them to the island after the Spanish conquest at the end of the 15th century continue to flourish to this day. They make the wines produced on the island today unique. So much so that the island authorities are now ...

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