Archive for October, 2005

Fabulous Tenerife Photos

Peter over at Canarias Foto has some astonishing must see photos from Tenerife.
Check this large one at Mount Teide out.
He also has a bunch from Gran Canaria, La Gomera, La Palma, Lanzarote and Fuerteventura.
A site you just HAVE to visit and explore all the great photos. Hat tip to CanariaFoto.com

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Flyglobespan - flights from Stansted London and Glasgow Scotland to Tenerife

Flyglobespan offers cheap flights from Stansted and London to Tenerife airport from winter 2005. Exciting!
We checked some current prices:
OUT:
Saturday 05 November 2005 STN at 08:15 TFS at 12:45 £43.99
IN:
Saturday 12 November 2005 TFS at 13:20 STN at 17:40 £41.99

Being flexible for your flights to Tenerife, prices can go down a bit if you fly other […]

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Olives hot crop in Tenerife?

TenerifeNews reports that:

The search for alternative crops has led one Tenerife municipality to give serious consideration to the olive and a quiet agricultural revolution is going on down Arico way, where some fifty groves are already flourishing. Next year the trees will bear their first fruit and it is confidently expected that 2006 will see […]

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Giant dogs in Las Palmas

They are not dangerous. News Canarias has the story on the big dogs:
In all 25 giant creatures will soon be making their presence felt on the city’s main squares and along the seafront at Las Canteras. The pets are part of a wider collection of 52 that had been on display during September in […]

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Jet2.com launch low cost flight from Leeds Bradford to Tenerife

Most recently we have announced an exciting new winter sun route from Leeds Bradford to Tenerife, and Chambery for the best skiing in the Alps, which will see our compliment of destinations from Leeds Bradford rise to 18.
A random check today at Jet2.com showed the following price for a returning ticket from Leeds to […]

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Clinton in Tenerife. Melchior attending Clinton Global Initiative

President Clinton came to visit Tenerife and invited Ricardo Melchior to experience Clinton Global Initiative.
ex-President of the USA Bill Clinton recently came to Tenerife, made a speech or two, played a bit of golf, missed a lot of meals, and flew off again, but not before extending an invitation to our President of the Cabildo, […]

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Smile you’re in the Canaries!

CanariaWeekly reports that:
A budget of four million euros has been set aside for the campaign targeting Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy and the Netherlands.
And on OasisFM:

According to the regional councillor Fajardo, the campaign should have a positive effect on the number of visitors to the islands since the strategy was drawn up as […]

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