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Tuesday, August 11th, 2009One 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 permanent holiday on the rock. Or so people seem to think. Usually the answer is “back to Blighty”, followed by, “but it’s [...]
New Tenerife video
Sunday, April 19th, 2009Joy 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 there. Twice we went to Las Galletas to try and catch the fish market fully open. Both [...]
Talcum powder terror and a monster sardine - all part of life in Tenerife
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009Tenerife 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 La Palma, and watching a giant sardine being led to its cremation by a bunch of male, fishnet-wearing mourners, very little [...]
Urgent appeal to all webmasters in Spain
Friday, January 9th, 2009As 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 least post the image of Amy below, in the hope that someone somewhere has a lead.
Whether you [...]
Where the hell have you been?
Monday, October 27th, 2008Ok, 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 - I’ve become a hotel inspector (no sniggering at the back), I’m officially a cruise writer, and my cat has grown a large [...]
The Tenerife hills are alive with the sound of… just about everything
Friday, June 20th, 2008Living 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, or the slap-in-the-face, poke-in-the-eye, boot-in-the-balls astonishment at the night sky, I LOVE LIVING HERE.
I used to live down there (he says pointing [...]
Taking Tenerife to task - not a hope in hell
Monday, May 26th, 2008There’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. Result - stress removed, but mission usually unaccomplished. Lists help, but are rarely accomplished.
Yesterday morning I stared apprehensively at such a list that my [...]
Tenerife’s first sitcom Re-writers
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008Well, 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 face with a wet carp, but not quite as good as a letter from the Director [...]
Tenerife’s first sitcom writers?
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008Life is pretty exciting at the moment. Sometimes it can be a plain bore, a never ending succession of menial features to write, facts to check, chores to avoid and kid’s toys to mend. At the moment though, it’s EXCITING. Sorry, I shouted.
I’m currently awaiting the verdict on a sitcom that I’ve co-written with a [...]
Have you got The Nerve?
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008In a bold and audacious move, I have signed up to be an executive producer at Nerve TV, the world’s first crowd-sourced media company. All sounds very grand, but what the heck does it mean?
Well, it means I can now bounce around ideas I have for TV programmes with similar like-minded people and industry insiders. It also [...]