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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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Record number of Brits heading for the sun

Wednesday, April 4th, 2007
In the great British Easter get-away stakes, Tenerife is leading the field. According to ABTA (the Association of British Travel Agents) London's three airports, Heathrow Gatwick and Stansted will preside over the departure of over a million sun-seeking passengers. And the largest proportion of them will be heading for Tenerife, with the southern resorts of Playa de las Americas and Los Cristianos likely to receive most of them. Spain is also high on the list of popular holiday hot spots with Brits, followed by Turkey, Tunisia, Egypt and Morocco. It’s all part of a record British Easter period, with around 2,500,000 want-aways set to leave the country by the weekend. The UK Met Office is advising tourists to pack an umbrella and waterproofs as many European destinations are forecast to receive heavy rain over the next week. However, those ...

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Comments: Leave a Comment » Categories: All about Tenerife, Los Cristianos, Playa de las Americas, Tourism, Weather

Head banging is hardly a new phenomenon

Saturday, March 24th, 2007
It seems that head banging is nothing new on the island of Tenerife. Long before holiday revellers brought head banging from the London clubs to the nightspots of Playa de las Americas, Tenerife had its own variation of the phenomenon A study of the skulls of the island’s original inhabitants by scientists at the Canarian Institute of Palaeopathology and Bioanthropology in Santa Cruz found that fractures were common among males in their 20s and early 30s, according to the Journal of Paleopathology. The scientists examined over 400 skulls pre-dating the Spanish invasion of the island in 1496. Some 10 per cent of the skulls showed circular cranial fractures, an injury rarely found among archaeological human skeletons. The pre-Hispanic inhabitants of the island, the Guanches, had weapons similar to the Argentinean bolas – two or more heavy balls attached to ...

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Comments: Leave a Comment » Categories: All about Tenerife, Guanches, Playa de las Americas, Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Tenerife – the new golfing paradise

Tuesday, March 6th, 2007
Tenerife is rapidly establishing itself as the perfect all-year-round destination for golfing holidays. A number of new courses have sprung up in recent years, all offering first class facilities in glorious locations. Tenerife's superb climate means that conditions for golf are almost always ideal, with average temperatures ranging between 20-26C throughout the year. Probably the best-known of the island’s courses is Buenavista, located in the remote north of the island. Designed by five-times major winner Severiano Ballesteros, the 18-hole clifftop course has the sea on one side and the Teno mountains as a backdrop on the other. The clubhouse, with a large lake in front of it, has superb panoramic views over the 6,019-metre course and the Atlantic Ocean beyond. Last year the Buenavista del Norte course won a prestigious national award at the Spanish Golf Federation Gala in Madrid for the attention paid to ...

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