Tenerife
« Previous EntriesJoy Liddell on the BIG things in Tenerife
Sunday, August 3rd, 2008Joy shows you how to do Mount Teide in Tenerife, as seen at www.myTenerifeInfo.com
For all those who don’t know, Joy is my partner and is currently pursuing a career as a TV presenter so needs all the help she can get. If you’re a travel webmaster give her a link. If you’re a Tenerife site [...]
Siam Park in Tenerife
Thursday, July 17th, 2008Just got back from a visit to Siam Park, which is currently vying with Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia for the award of ‘most overdue completion date’. However, despite the lack of punctuality, I have to say the Park is something else.
In my capacity as a Tenerife travel writer, I got to try out some of the [...]
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 [...]
Wow! Is that REALLY Tenerife?
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008<>Stop what you’re doing and watch this video straight away. THIS is the way to market a hotel in Tenerife. Had me chops drooling, eyes popping and body swaying - and not a lot does that to me now I’ve reached the ripe old age of 43-and-a-bit. Well, except perhaps when Michelle Pfeiffer pops round [...]
Get your signed copies of More Ketchup than Salsa: Confessions of a Tenerife Barman
Thursday, May 29th, 2008In a blatant bout of self-promotion, you can now order a personally signed copy of More Ketchup than Salsa: Confessions of a Tenerife Barman (voted Best Travel Narrative 2007 by the British Guild of Travel Writers) direct from the author. Otherwise known as Me. Click here to find out more.
That link will also take you [...]
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 [...]
Casting call in Tenerife
Friday, May 16th, 2008Just a quickie…
Anybody with a beautiful bod (rules me out) aged 18-30 (rules me out, again) and European-looking (non-Latin). There’s a casting for a big photo shoot at Las Teresitas soon. Don’t worry, it’s not seedy, it’s clothes-on, commercial and involves beach volleyball. It also pays well for those who pass the casting. Males and females [...]
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 [...]
The Tenerife malaise
Friday, February 15th, 2008Note to self: You’re 43 years of age, a parent of two toddlers and a professional writer. It’s time you got organised.
Now I know I recently had a rant about the shambolic organisation of the Elton John soiree but I’m putting myself in the stocks here. If you want to throw things at me, please [...]