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Rain in Tenerife

TenerifeResorts reports on the weather situation here, where the thundershowers and rain have made everything wet:

It was the rainiest January day on record with the torrential rains particularly heavy in the early hours of the morning and affecting most especially the southern part of the island where an amazing 145 litres per square metre fell […]

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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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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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