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Summer 09

ZAPATERO AND RIVERO REACH AGREEMENT ON TOURISM STRATEGY

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hile relations in the past may have been somewhat frosty, the visit to the islands at the end of June by Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero appeared to have smoothed over many political cracks.

The joint press conference hosted by Zapatero and Canarian president Paulino Rivero showed the two in accord on a number of issues, outlining agreements beneficial to the islands, to be expanded upon during a full meeting of the cabinet to take place here in the archipelago next October.

Zapatero expressed his and the government’s concern at the excessive negative impact the fall in tourism figures was having on the Canaries, with tourism representing 30 per cent of the islands’ GDP as opposed to 10 per cent in the rest of the country. To this end the government have already agreed that the current reduction in airport charges by around 30 per cent will be extended into the first quarter of 2010. The Prime Minister also voiced his and the government’s concern at the unemployment rate of 26 per cent here, currently the highest in Spain.

There will also be a €100

million loan available to the Canarians to finance a number of tourism upgrades. The inclusion of the islands in the new Senior Citizens Tourism plan, which will fund projects to attract the over 55’s from other European countries to holiday in Spain, should, it is hoped, see more visitors to these shores in the coming months. Other agreements reached during the day long discussions, which also saw bi-lateral meetings between the Ministers for Employment and Immigration, Celestino Corbacho, Industry, Trade and Tourism, Miguel Sebastián, and Development, José Blanco with their regional counterparts, include funding for the improvement of the transport of goods by road and rail.

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and Paulino Rivero

The meeting and measures announced came as a stark warning was issued by leaders of the Canarian tourism sector, who predict up to two million tourists less this year. They predict that the consequences on revenue will be dramatic unless action is taken urgently to make the islands more attractive to airlines and holiday companies.

Conser vative estimates put the potential losses at 1.5bn euros, with a possible 50,000 jobs at risk.

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DRIVING CHANGES

Santa Cruz

On the road S

everal changes in driving legislation have been approved recently.

There is a new motorbike licence, A2, which is for 500 cc motorbikes. Over 18s can apply directly for the licence by taking the appropriate tests of ability and knowledge or if they already have an A1 licence and at least two years’ experience, they will just need to pass ability and behaviour tests.

From September 2010, moped riders will have to be 15 or over not 14 as is currently the case. The various tests and the limit of 18 years of age for carrying a passenger remain the same.

Driving licences in the AM, A1, A2, A and B categories will have to be renewed every 10 years up to 65 years of age and from then on every five years. Professional drivers in the categories BTP, C1, C, D etc will have to renew every five years and every three after their 65th birthday. With the exception of the change of the moped rider’s age, the rest of the above new legislation will come into effect six months after the publication of the Boletín de Estado.

It has now been clarified that those who pay their fines within the 30 day limit to take advantage of the 30 per cent discount, will also be able to appeal the loss of points and

Tougher measures to cope with re-offenders

the fine paid. From Spring 2010, a new level is to be introduced for those who pay within 15 days of a 50 per cent discount, but without the right of appeal.

Also from Spring, the previous slight flexibility over speeding has been completely removed. Passing the speed limit by even one kilometre per hour will make you liable to a fine and a loss of points and will now be considered a serious breach of the law with excess of 60 per cent over the fixed limit considered very serious.

Users of radar detectors will be sanctioned more heavily than before at 6,000 euros and a new system of radars is to be introduced which can gauge the average speed a vehicle is travelling at between two points. Reoffenders, those with two or

more fines outstanding or those who are considered a danger to public safety will have their vehicle immobilised.

With the exception of speeding drivers, slight offenders will be fined at 100 euros, medium at 300 euros and serious at 600 euros, but these sums could be increased by various factors by up to 30 per cent depending on the seriousness of the offence, the previous record of the driver and whether or not he or she is a re-offender, or the potential danger the driver posed to him or herself and other road users.

Using a vehicle which is not in a safe condition or without the appropriate ITV certificate will be classed as a serious offence and it will now be necessary to prove you have an insurance policy

in place before the ITV certificate is issued.

Within the voluntary payment period, you can now pay your traffic fines via Internet.

Enter in the www.dgt.es page and follow the links to pay your fines with your credit card on-line. You will need to enter your identity number, name and surname, the number on the document given to you by the police or left on your windshield and the amount of the fine as well as your credit card number and security number. Fines can also be paid in the Banco Santander, in the post office, the provincial main police stations and the Department of Traffic’s offices.

It is also now possible to receive notification of fines that have been imposed on your car or cars by SMS or email. This is an option which could be particularly interesting to car rental companies, companies supplying their employees with company cars or people who have had a car stolen. It enables all concerned to take the appropriate action as soon as possible before the paper work becomes too far advanced or the ‘guilty’ driver has vanished. This service is completely voluntary and available via the Web pages of the Ministerio de Administraciones Públicas.

On a more positive note, from July, drivers who haven’t lost a single point off their licences since the new points licence system was introduced three years ago will be awarded with two additional points during this month.

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Carnaval

Monkeying around The competition to design the best poster to announce next year’s Carnaval in Santa Cruz has been won by 29 year old Waldemar Lemanczyk, a resident of Arico who was born in Güímar.

The jury consisted of Miriam Durango, director of the Circulo de Bellas Artes, Abraham Santana, graphic designer, Antonio Bello as a member of the Rector council, Ángel Llanos as vice president of the independent fiestas and recreational activities organisation, Maribel Oñate, the councillor for fiestas, Alfonso Cabello as general director of the organisation and María Vidal as secretary of the jury.

Waldemar wins the prize of 3,000 euros for his work entitled, Evolve and Enjoy More, which will be used to promote the Carnaval within the Canaries as well as nationally and internationally.

His poster was chosen from 50 entries submitted for the competition held for the second time in the event’s history, and organised by the Santa Cruz council’s fiestas commission. The author used the most up to date technology to create his design which consists of the Tenerife sky as a background for a Carnaval-going chimpanzee – a male dressed as a female dancer, complete with costume jewellery and feathers. It is difficult to describe how much painstaking work has gone into this poster, but suffice to say that the chimpanzee’s fur was created hair by hair with a brush in Photoshop. Working with the idea of evolution, Waldemar has created a poster with a happy, fun and colourful concept which hopefully will not attract as much criticism as those of previous years which have been a little more esoterical. This design can easily be related to the theme of next year’s Carnaval which is the History of Humanity, or the evolution of man, and the message is clear – evolve and you will enjoy it all the more.

Arona Corruption

Court for mayor The mayor of Arona is to appear before a judge again as part of the ongoing probe into corruption in the town hall.

After months of secrecy, reporting restrictions were partially lifted by the court leading the investigations into allegations that, among other things, planning permission for lucrative developments was granted in return for payments to council officials and politicians.

It is believed that up to 300 planning permission files dating back to 2004-2006 are being looked into by police. Already quizzed two years ago, mayor José Alberto González Reverón and several Arona councillors and officials have been summoned to appear before the judge again on the 8th and 9th of July.

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TENERIFE MODA

Competition Raúl Sánchez Quiles, top texter

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CI txters LOL Raúl Sánchez Quiles was the overall winner of the II SMS literary competition run by the Gran Canarian Cabildo sponsored by El Corte Inglés.

Over 400 texters submitted entries to the competition, some in legible castellano, more using texting shorthand common these days amongst regular sms senders. The theme was Peace, with a collection of books and 300 euros going to the winners, including Pedro Jesús Moriche Hermoso from Badajoz who was chosen by public vote, and 200 euros to the other finalists. The aim of this competition is to encourage literary creativity using new technologies.

Sánchez Quiles, from Tenerife, submitted the following (loosely translated) message which the jury considered the overall winner, “the pilot of the B-52 bomber always returned to base with a huge smile on his face. They thought it was because he was a sadist, but he had dropped the bombs in the sea”.

The entry that captured the public’s attention, from the phone of Pedro Jesús Moriche Hermoso, reads, “after World War III the only man left living still didn’t understand that peace was the way forward. He died fighting his own shadow”.

La Gomera

Efrain Medina and Rebeca Sosa

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enerife Moda, the collective which embraces fashion, jeweller y and accessor y designers and manufacturers in Tenerife, plans to introduce its products into the American market through Miami in Florida.

In late June, the Cabildo’s councillor for economic development, business and employment, Efraín Medina met

Miami-Dade commissioner Rebeca Sosa and the rest of the American delegation who had flown to Tenerife on one of the new direct flights from Miami.

Medina considers that, “we are dealing with a very important market and we need to take advantage of the opportunities that this new air link with Miami brings to introduce ourselves into

that market which, as well as being a reference point for the Latin American public, will allow us to present our products to more than four million clients”.

He announced that businessmen and women from companies in the textile sector of Tenerife Moda will be travelling to Miami in September to present their products in various showrooms and in

this way they will be able to demonstrate the variety and quality of fashion items made in Tenerife. Initially, the companies invited will be involved in haute couture, costume jeweller y, children’s wear, bathing wear and articles of high class lingerie.

Medina also considers that, “Tenerife’s textile products could well be liked and competitive in Miami. This new air link opens many new doors for business, as this city is the door to the United States and the way in to Latin America”. He emphasised that, “it is very important to place Tenerife’s textile products not only in established markets, but also in new and emerging ones”.

During their meeting, Rebeca Sosa claimed that she had no doubt that, “Tenerife’s fashion and textile sector has a segment in the United States market”, and for this reason the commissioner promised to, “make available everything necessary to ensure that the textile business mission will be a success”.

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The man, in his 50s, had not been seen for almost a week and neighbours reported their concerns to police. His body was found on the floor of the bathroom of the apartment in the Orijamas district of the coastal town. Foul play is not suspected although the cause of death, thought to be a fall, will not be established formally until the results of a postmortem are known. It was the second death in the area in just two days. The body of J.M.A.C., a 30 year old from Taguluche in Valle Gray Rey, was found dead outside his home in the capital, San Sebastián, with all the indicators pointing to a fall from his apartment as the cause of death.

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No longer will different makes and models have different chargers, one size will fit all. The move will mean that users will be able to swap phones and keep their old chargers regardless of which

brand or model they buy. The new phones with standard chargers will be available from next year. The EU Industry Commissioner Guenter Verheugen pronounced himself very pleased that the, “industry has found an agreement which will make life much simpler for the consumer.

They will be able to charge mobile phones anywhere from the new common charger.

This also means considerably less electronic waste, because people will no longer have to throw away chargers when buying new phones.” His department estimates that thousands of tons of waste are caused in Europe every year by unwanted phone accessories. The new generation of phones will use a standard micro-USB socket to ensure compatibility. Manufactur-

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EDUCATION rest of the island. Younger kids inevitably distract the older ones when they drop things or fall over. The older children end up picking toys

Ana and the parents want the education department to concentrate on quality not quantity

Quality not quantity T

en out of ten for the Regional Minister for Education, Milagros Luis Brito, and her team in maths, but a fat zero for sociology and geography.

Parents at a small school in Tierra del Trigo, Los Silos, are threatening to boycott the next school year if the threatened reduction of teaching staff in the local school goes ahead. It may seem like a luxury these days to talk of two teachers for 18 children in the public school system, but the age range is from three to twelve in this village school. The regional education department is clear on

the matter, 18 children two teachers, 17 children – one.

With the difference in ages in the class, one teacher would find it hard to maintain discipline never mind try to educate the kids.

Recently and expensively restored and renewed the small local school is the heart of the village. It’s a lovely area, mainly rural, but very much lacking in the most basic of facilities. The local bus is a private affair run by the local council, weekdays only and sometimes not even that, and there is no health centre. The only establishment that works and works well is the local school and

now that too is threatened.

Ana, president of the local parent’s association put it in a nutshell, “you can’t use the same parameters for a school in the middle of an agricultural area as you use for a school in Santa Cruz.

We have no alternatives. We have no transport, no bus and no tram. The parents of most of these children work in the south and the kids are left with the grandparents who watch them up the road as they walk to the school and watch for them to come home.

If they take away the second teacher, our children will not have the benefit of the quality of education enjoyed by the

and toddlers off the floor. We are not sending our children to school to act as unpaid babysitters.

“Parents will be forced to move away. We are asking that the education department look towards the quality of the education of our children and not the overall quantity of kids in the class.

We are willing to fight this to the end and we have the full backing of our local mayor and the whole village.”

Bear in mind that this measure is being forced into place by a party which prides itself on representing the farmers and local traditions. This is not the way to encourage people to continue to work the land of their forefathers, even if they can only dedicate time at weekends. The only way to persuade people to stay on the land is to make sure that they have the same quality of life, including education, as those in the big towns and cities. If that doesn’t happen, the drain from the countr y will continue, the land will continue to fall into ugly disuse and Canarian dependence on imports will rise even further.

News in Brief Environment

EU rebuke The European Union has taken Spain to task over its failure to protect natural habitats in the Canaries.

Brussels has issued a formal warning to Madrid for dragging its feet in passing the required legislation to ensure conservation of almost 200 sites in the region.

According to the EU, the wealth of natural flora and fauna here continues to be at risk unless the government completes plans for comprehensive protection mechanisms. Brussels has drawn particular attention to the need to protect the special ecosystems of the islands’ volcanic landscapes

Street demo

Phone masts Opponents of the proliferation of mobile phone masts took to the streets of Las Palmas recently to pressure the government and city council into action Scores of residents, including parents of young children, took part in the demonstration outside the government building in the city to call for the masts to be taken down from rooftops in built-up areas or to be clad in protective casings. A spokeswoman said there was evidence of links between the presence of the masts and higher rates of illness, including cancer, among locals. The organisers also called for an investigation into seven recent deaths in the vicinity of a group of masts in the Calle Osorio area of Las Palmas

Twin Otters

Seaplane links Tenerife and Gran Canaria could be linked soon by seaplanes under a new business project announced recently.

A consortium of local businessmen says it is in talks with a Canadian company to connect the two biggest islands using Twin Otter seaplanes, which would make the crossing in less than half an hour. The idea is to then extend the service to other islands, although no details have been given yet of which ones.

The consortium says the seaplanes are ideal for short inter-island hops and need little in terms of infrastructure except a jetty and a small terminal.

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Maspalomas

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Hit and run

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Widow speaks out

The victim and his famiLy lived in Maspalomas

The widow of the English man killed in a hit and run tragedy in Maspalomas at the end of June has hit out at reports that he was drunk at the time.

Initial reports in some papers had stated that Simon Telford had been admitted to a local A&E unit following a bicycle fall but that staff had difficulties treating him as he was inebriated. He had then discharged himself at about 4.30am with his two wrists in plaster as both were fractured. His body was discovered shortly after by a taxi driver on a road nearby. Police say he suffered massive injuries after being hit by a car travelling

at speed. Simon Telford’s widow said, “Simon knew the road well and he could not have been drunk because he didn’t drink. He had attended a clinic nearby for treatment after a bicycle accident earlier that night.

Police have advised me and our 12-year-old son not to see his body because of the horrific injuries,” she told the Canarias 7, adding that she hoped the driver who ran him over and fled the scene would be caught quickly. It was subsequently suggested that he may have been hit by more than one car.

The family are making arrangements to have Simon’s body flown back to England for burial.

uring a recent visit to Tenerife by the prime minister of Cape Verde, José María Pereira, the president of the Cabildo, Ricardo Melchior stressed the importance of a weekly flight to complete the sea connection which links Senegal, Cape Verde and Brazil.

Pereira agreed with this comment and also stressed the significance of the work which is being developed to monitor volcanic activity, organise and manage territory and work alongside the university.

The Tenerife Cabildo and the Cape Verde government are now working on the development of further education as well as modernisation of territorial and municipal information systems, a project which is financed by the European programme Europeaid.

The project of monitoring volcanic risk is being carried out through the environmental department of the technological institute for renewable energies (ITER), together with Cape Verde’s engineering laboratory and national civil protection service, and is designed to strengthen the pre-alert system for volcanic activity in Cape Verde, Nicaragua and the Philippines.

During his stay, Pereira visited the ITER park in

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GRANADILLA

Cape Verde connections

Granadilla and was shown the installation by Ricardo Melchior in the company of Elsa Casa, representing the Canarian government’s exterior commission, the Cabildo councillor for economics and competition ‘Carlos Alonso’ and representatives of the Cabo Verde government.

Melchior stressed the importance of a renewable energy installation such as this for

Cape Verde, an archipelago which is so similar to the Canaries. Alonso reminded the guests that ITER is highly experienced in international projects, and that staff would be willing to give Cape Verde information and training in this regard.

During the tour, Melchior explained the use of the wind, sun and sea to create renewable energy and also

discussed energy saving and rational use of resources. The visitors expressed particular interest in the development of bioclimatic homes, a pioneer project of great ecological value which offers new solutions to problems such as the scarcity of natural energy resources, protection of natural spaces during construction and the elimination of rubbish.

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MAFIA

Rebajas

Chinese extortionists arrested Two Chinese nationals who posed as mafia members to obtain protection money from a compatriot in Costa Teguise have been remanded in Lanzarote jail pending trial.

The pair, a man in his 20s and a middle-aged woman, were detained after police set a trap for them in Arrecife as they turned up to collect thousands of euros from their victim, who had received a visit a few days before as part of a campaign to intimidate him into paying for protection.

According to the island’s police, the pair passed themselves off as members of a well-known Chinese mafia in Spain and ordered the man to pay 30,000 euros to ensure protection for his business and ensure his family came to no harm. The authorities believe the pair, who ran an unlicensed acupuncture centre, may also be behind

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other cases of extortion of Chinese nationals in mainland Spain.

The news broke as experts from the professional massage associations published a warning about the massages which are being of fered, mainly by Chinese nation-

als, on the open beaches.

The associations’ spokesperson claimed that the people offering the massages are unlicensed and unqualified and that they could easily create more problems than they resolve. Added to which is the question of hygiene,

as they have nowhere to wash their hands between customers and could easily pass skin infections from one client to another. Police are investigating the possibility that the people offering the service are being exploited by a Chinese mafia ring.

EDUCATION CALENDAR

New school year schools starting almost a week later on 14 September. The year ends on 23 June 2010 and the Christmas holidays run from 23 December to 10 January (both dates inclusive), with Easter from 29 March until 4 April. As every

year, each school can choose up to four days of additional holidays, over and above official public holidays. Most tend to pick their days to coincide with Carnival to allow staff and pupils the whole week off.

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Bargain hunting is always fun, but remember that you don’t have to join the queues of the first day of the sales in order to secure the best bargains, as items are usually reduced further on several occasions during the sales period.

Items of fered in the sales must have formed part of the store’s normal stock for a period of at least a month before the sale, and remember that either the original price must be shown on the price tag alongside the sale price, or the percentage reduction must be displayed.

Shops are not obliged to accept returned products unless they are defective.

However, they are free to accept all types of product returns if they wish, and in fact many do so as an added promotion. What they must do is respect their own sales politics and the advertising they have undertaken, as this has a contractual value. For example, if they advertise all year round that they accept returns, or payments by credit card, then they must also accept them during the sales unless they display information

to the contrary in a clear and visible manner. Conversely, a customer cannot be obliged to pay the surcharge for card payments solely during sales.

Product guarantees must also be respected, and must extend as is usual, from the date of purchase. The customer has the right to demand that the conditions of a guarantee are complied with, so do remember to keep your receipt in case you find any defects in the products you have purchased. If you have any problems with product exchanges or guarantees,

until 31st August it is always better to settle them in a friendly manner.

If this is not possible, then ask at the shop for the reclamation form. Your local consumer services office will be able to offer advice and help.

For extended bargain hunting, visit the regions of Cantabria, Castilla La Mancha, Galicia or the Basque Countr y where the sales continue until 30th September, or Madrid until 21st September.

TDT Digital TV

Change of plans With just two weeks to go before the first section of the switch over from analogue to digital TV, the Government has moved the goalposts by giving the green light to pay channels for TDT. Millions of families who have already bought their TDT decoders will have to fork out for another apparatus or go without premium viewing such as football matches. The new decoders are expected to cost between 49 and 75 euros.

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EUROPEAN SURVEY

Canarian beaches best

European holidaymakers consider beaches in the Canaries to be the best kept in Spain, a new survey shows.

The study, by an association called Coronita Save the

Beach, quizzed 3500 visitors across Europe on their impressions of the country’s beaches and the Canaries and Balearic Islands came out top of the pile, with ratings well above other parts

such as the Costa Brava and Costa del Sol. Germans and Britons in particular scored Canarian sand and sea highly, with almost 50 per cent listing the region’s beaches in first place in Spain. Only three per cent of tourists said they had decided not to return to the Canaries due to the poor standard of the beaches. The findings of the comprehensive survey were announced at a press conference recently by Alexandra Cousteau, grand-daughter of the legendary conservationist Jacques Cousteau.

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Newsweek gaffe

A major gaffe by prestigious magazine Newsweek has not gone unnoticed in Spain or the Canary Islands.

In a recent article called The Empire Burden, a contributor discussed the vestiges of former empires in Europe and listed the remaining territorial possessions of colonial powers. Although, unlike the

Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla in North Africa, the Canaries were not mentioned in the text of the article, an accompanying map listed the islands, giving population details, as a Spanish overseas territory, a reference that immediately led to calls for a formal rectification. The gaffe was picked up by Spanish daily El País, which queried the

inclusion of the Canaries on the map. The media in the Canaries were also quick to seize on the error to criticise Newsweek for its poorly-sourced research.

However, minority nationalist circles congratulated the publication for identifying the, “unresolved Canarian problem” and reiterated their calls for full independence from Spain.

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Fuerteventura Rustlers arrested

Sheep stealing Police in Fuerteventura have broken up an organised ring which stole sheep from farms across the island and sold them to other farmers.

The investigation, which began after a systematic pattern to the thefts was

detected a few months ago, ended successfully when one farmer was offered his own sheep for sale within days of their disappearance. A 21-year-old local has been arrested in connection with the late-night thefts although police say several others who acted as mid-

dlemen will face charges also. Prices have increased significantly of late due to the growing popularity of cheese made with sheep’s milk and the ring is believed to have been set up to cash in on the lucrative market, according to the Fuerteventura authorities.

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Canarian Troops Elections watch

Afganistán mission A contingent of soldiers based in the Canaries will form part of the Spanish Army’s mission to Afghanistan in the summer to ensure the presidential elections are not marred by conflict.

Members of the 16th Infantry Brigade will spend up to three months in the trou-

ble-torn country before and after the late August elections. The troops, currently based in Tenerife, Gran Canaria and Fuerteventura, will be deployed as part of a massive Nato mission in Herat and Badghis. Up to 10,000 soldiers will be sent

by Alliance members to support the Afghan forces

and protect international observers during the elections. It is thought Spain agreed to contribute extra soldiers, including the Canarian troops, to reduce tensions with Nato after the government unilaterally decided to pull out from the international peace-keeping effort in Kosovo.

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HUMAN ERROR

News in Brief

Fighters’ accident A preliminary investigation into the near-tragedy involving two Spanish Air Force planes in the skies above the Canaries points to pilot error or a mistake by airtraffic control as the cause.

Two senior pilots had to eject from their state-of-theart F18 fighters high above the sea of f Gran Canaria when their planes touched and spiralled out of control.

The aircraft were taking part in an electronic warfare exercise when the incident occurred.

One of the F-18s clipped the other during a manoeuvre and both pilots lost control of their planes at 10,000 metres altitude. They ejected seconds later and parachuted into the sea, where they were rescued by helicopter after just 20 minutes. Their com-

Two planes spiralled out of control

manding officer at Gando Air Force base said that all the indications pointed to human error but a full inquiry was under way to establish the

causes of the incident, which could have been worse if the planes had collided head-on instead of clipping each other.

The planes were priced at 41

million US dollars as of last year and the Spanish air force is one of the major clients for the McDonnell Douglas planes.

STREET VIOLENCE

Playa del Inglés problems The recent spate of latenight incidents in Playa del Inglés, including assaults on tourists, is “nothing new,” according to the local hoteliers’ association.

Spokesman Tom Smulders says that the sector expressed its concern at the increase

in drink and drug-fuelled violence on the streets of the resort, especially in the vicinity of the main nightspots, back in January 2008 to the town council but little has been done since.

According to Smulders, immediate action was promised to increase policing and also

to crack down on unlicensed premises, which were the source of much of the conflict.

Checks made every week to see how many tourists are admitted to local hospitals during the week-end due to injuries received in brawls show the figures are on the increase. The association

says that recent cases include the vicious assault on the owner of a disco, who was in a coma for a long time, and a handicapped Dutch tourist who almost died due to injuries received in a Sunday attack near the popular Cita Centre.

LAS PALMAS

Abortion protest Pro-life activists took to the streets of Las Palmas recently as part of the nationwide campaign to stop the government from pushing ahead with more liberal abortion legislation.

Members of the Right to Life association staged the protest outside the city’s Cathedral to draw attention to the changes announced by Prime Minister José Luis Zapatero, which will allow, among other things,

teenage girls to interrupt a pregnancy without parental consent. The protestors lit candles to commemorate the one million babies they say have not been born in Spain in the last decade due to abortions.

A spokeswoman said the government was obsessed with extending rights to women of all ages but ignored the rights of embryos, the youngest and most defenceless members of society.

Car restriction proposal

Fine row A proposal to penalise drivers who use their cars for daily travel to the south of Gran Canaria once the island’s light train begins operations has been criticised as unnecessary scaremongering.

The idea was floated by the Cabildo vice-president Román Rodríguez recently at a conference in Las Palmas and immediately prompted an angry response from other parties. Rodríguez says the corporation should explore ways to discourage motorists from taking to the roads once the train from the capital to Maspalomas enters service in 2015. Possible measures include number plate restrictions (plates with odd numbers on odd-numbered days of the month and even

plates on even days) with fines for those breaching the rule, and even a tolltype tax on car-owners wishing to continue to use their vehicles instead of the train. The proposals have been slammed by the Popular Party in the Cabildo.

Spokesman Larry Álvarez said it was the corporation’s job, “to place a variety of transport options at the public’s disposal but they were just options, not obligations”. He added that the train is still a long time away and the scare tactics were the last thing needed at present.

Román Rodríguez suggested a fine for car users

Harrowing search

Pilots narrate experience Spanish pilots who took part in the search for wreckage of the ill-fated Air France flight from Brazil to Paris have recounted their harrowing experience on their return to the Canaries.

A team of eight members of the Air Force squadron based in Gando (Gran Canaria) returned to base after an exhausting series of sorties from Cabo Verde to search the Atlantic for remains of the Airbus. “We were out in our Fokker every day scouring the sea from the skies. It was a harrowing mission, knowing you were not searching for survivors but for wreckage,” explained the unit’s leader Fausto Conde. The crew located important pieces of wreckage from the air, including seats and windows from the stricken Airbus. “There were probably people still strapped in the seats which makes it even more tragic,” added Conde. The Spaniards flew out every day for two weeks from their temporary bases in Praia in Cabo Verde and travelled 1,500 km to the location of the coordinated air and sea search effort, which was led

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Ambassador Sujata Mehta and Cabildo president Ricardo Melchior

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New health centre

INDIAN AMBASSADOR

Cultural exchanges Ambassador Suhata Mehta, the Indian Ambassador to Spain, was in Tenerife recently where she was greeted at the Cabildo offices by president Ricardo Melchior.

During her visit gifts were exchanged and themes of the day such as how the current economic crisis is affecting the international community were discussed, as well as

the development of relations between the two countries.

Sujata Mehta was born in New Delhi in 1957. She holds a Master’s degree in Political Science, and joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1980. The Ambassador has held a number of high profile positions, and was Third Secretary in the Indian Embassy in Moscow from 1982 to 1984, Second

Secretary to the Embassy in Dhaka, Bangladesh from 1984 to 1985, and First Secretary to her country’s permanent mission to the UN from 1989 to 1992. She returned to India for a number of years where she held a number of important posts, and just prior to her appointment to Spain was the Director General in the office of the Indian Prime Minister.

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JosĂŠ Alberto GonzĂĄlez ReverĂłn, Mercedes RoldĂłs, Paulino Rivero (l-r)

Arona’s El Fraile district now has its own health centre.

The new installation has cost over 2.3 million euros to build and equip the twostorey, 2,000 square metre structure. The ground floor houses a reception, administration and archives area, four paediatric consulting rooms and a women’s section with a special consulting room and a

maternity education hall, two dentists’ consulting rooms, an emergency area and a clinical samples area. On the second floor there are 12 consulting rooms for adults, one multiuse consulting room, an office for the social worker, and a meetings room. The basement will be used for necessary equipment and storage.

The opening was attended by Canarian president, Paulino

Rivero, the Regional Health Minister, Mercedes RoldĂłs and the local mayor, JosĂŠ Alberto GonzĂĄlez ReverĂłn who commented, “health care is very much linked to the quality of life of residents, which is why it is necessary that we all have access to a quality health system on equal termsâ€?, a possible ironic comment given the current stalemate state of the southern hospital.

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Work stopped at Riquel

Pavement trip

Pensioner paid for nothing

A COURT ORDER TOWARDS THE END OF JUNE PUT A TEMPORARY HALT TO THE CONTROVERSIAL INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITIES.

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iquel is a plot of coastal land in San Marcos, Icod de los Vinos, where three companies have been quarr ying for building material and two have been sharing a massive vehicle scrap yard for many years.

The order in fact stems from a resident’s legal complaint, presented in 2004, which alleged the companies were carrying out activities which contravened the protected status of the plot of land and laws regarding the protection of the environment. The closure puts 400 jobs in jeopardy and on Friday, 19th June, when the court order took effect, workers, company owners and supporters mingled with police enforcing the order, to protest against the decision.

Their only claim would seem to be against losing their jobs and industries because they more or less accept that they are not wanted. In fact many of them were simply calling for their activities to be allowed to continue until they or the authorities have found them somewhere else to quarry or to set up a scrap yard. One of the companies involved in quarrying, Aridos Abreu Luis, SL, has actually been supplying raw materials for the construction of the new port in Garachico, which is one of the big projects for the

Buenavista

First communion Riquel workers want their jobs back

the town hall in Icod. When in opposition until the 2007 local elections, the current mayor appeared to call for all work at Riquel to be stopped immediately and accused the mayor at the time of not keeping d se to his promises to close Riquel clo ts want en sid re co the Riquel industries. Just a San Mar few months ago he seemed coming few years. Perhaps to continue to suggest he taken by surprise that the would like to have the area order to close was actually cleaned up, for environmental enforced, the company owner reasons. suggested the closure of his However, only days before business would delay the the court order to close the port. In fact regional politi- industries, after a three hour cians were openly concerned meeting with the owners of at that possibility, and at the the companies involved, he extra cost involved in build- appeared to be defending the ing the port if those materi- industries’ right to stay open, als had to be transported at least in order to protect from the other big quarry jobs. He is believed to have in Guimar, on the other side promised to try to maintain of the island. their industries open, sugOne sideline to the Riquel gesting that their closure affair has been the apparent would not solve but actually contradictions coming from aggravate the problems at

President’s night Tenerife Sur Lions Club celebrated their annual Presidents Night Dinner and awards ceremony recently at the El Rodeo Tropical Café Terrace.

The current President Prakash Udhwani was elected to ser ve another year and during his speech thanked all the club members and their suppor ters for such a successful year. He was particularly impressed with the organization for the under privileged children’s holidays,

According to the El Día newspaper, the 81-year-old fell as she was walking along Calle Calvo Sotelo and had to be helped by passers-by. She and her family turned up at the town hall a few days later to lodge the complaint about the state of the pavement and kerb only to be told that another person had already done so. Believing the complainant may have been the stranger who helped her after the fall, she asked for details of the complaint to be able to contact him but was astounded to learn that she had to pay a 24 euro processing fee to have access to the paperwork. “The worst thing of all is that having paid the fee we were then told a second complaint about the same incident could not be accepted so we ended up not being able to file anything. 24 euros for nothing,” said the furious woman.

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A Santa Cruz woman who tripped and injured herself on a city pavement has been forced to pay the council in her failed bid to file a formal complaint.

both from the UK to Tenerife and this week the 35 Tenerife children who will be going on a holiday of a lifetime to the UK. Viana Shows provided the all the entertainment, Enigma, Glamslam and the Tuxedo Knights had the audience of 150 clapping and singing and dancing to the music of the 70s and 80s.

The President thanked all club members and supporters for a successful year

Riquel. He also excused the council by explaining that the decision to put a halt to the industrial activities had been a purely judicial one and nothing to do with them.

To be fair, his can’t be an easy decision. On one side he has residents at San Marcos to please. They have been calling for the eyesore of the industrial activities at Riquel to go for years and he would not have been the first politician to have promised to clean up the plot of land, for environmental reasons of course.

On the other side he has to be seen to protect jobs during an economic crisis.

The possible outcome may be an agreement for a license to be issued for the industries to continue their activities on a temporary basis, until someone comes up with a far better idea, which may take a few more years.

Congratulations to Adriana and Sergio Fernández Isla and their parents on the occasion of their first communion.

Tacoronte Vehicle theft

Cars in ravine Guardia Civil police on patrol in the hills above Tacoronte found two cars at the bottom of a deep ravine.

The vehicles had been deliberately driven or pushed into the ravine and were badly damaged. However they soon discovered that both cars had been reported missing and presumed to have been stolen from La Orotava.

546 Route Public transport

More buses As is usual in the summer, the 546 route from El Realejo Alto and the fabulous El Socorro beach has been reinforced with additional services.

Weekdays the service starts at 2pm and runs every hour more or less with a last service at 8.15 pm. Weekends and public holidays, the service starts at 10 am from Realejo Alto and 10.30 am from the beach. In the last three hours of each day there will be double the number of buses coming back from the beach. The last service runs from the beach at 8.45 pm.

El Socorro beach is one of the best body-board surfing beaches left on the island and great to watch even if you don’t want to take part. Well worth a visit, and now made even easier.

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Granadilla The seagrasses are essential for the breeding of marine species

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Friendly Tourism campaign ends

Seagrass appeal

Government fails The Canarian government has failed in its latest bid to declassify the natural seagrasses in the waters around the site of the new Granadilla port.

The authorities initially took the rare seabed habitat, necessary for the breeding of marine species, off the protected species list in order to ensure the port project did not fall foul of EU environment rules.

However, the decision was challenged by environmentalists and a Tenerife judge ruled that the move was unlawful. An appeal by the regional government and the Tenerife Port Authority against the order to reinstate the seagrasses has now been rejected by the High Court and the environmental issue is very much back in the spotlight.

The Court said that the scientific evidence furnished by the ecologists showed unequivocally that the damage caused by the port to the habitat would be irreversible and removing the grasslands from the conservation list was a purely expedient solution to allow the project to go ahead. Despite the setback, the government insists the port in Granadilla has all the necessary approval and, “will not be halted”. A further appeal to Spain’s Supreme Court is already being prepared.

During the campaign students find out about careers within the tourism industry

CIT Sur closed their successful 2009 Friendly Tourism: Your Future campaign recently This was the tenth year of the campaign,which has the joint objectives of presenting children with the range of career possibilities they could have for employment in the tourist industr y, showing them where many of their parents or relatives work

and what their day to day job means. The campaign also underlines the significance of the tourist trade to the island and the south in particular, stressing the importance of being friendly and welcoming at all times and of looking after the environment. Various free trips are organised to a range of tourist related businesses, trips which have been more popular than ever this

year. The campaign is highly regarded by many authorities throughout the islands, and those attending the closing ceremony at Reina Sofía airport included the head of the regional department of education, José Zenón Ruano Villalba as well as Óscar Martínez González, airport director, along with education councillors from various town councils in South Tenerife,

representatives from education centres, hotels and leisure organisations that were visited during the course of this year’s campaign.

As well as speeches and presentations there was a draw among participating students, and 15 year old Jéssica Vargas Santana, IES Las Galletas, won a weekend in a five-star hotel in South Tenerife.

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Our luggage is examined to make sure we don’t bring in any animals, plants, weeds, pests or diseases. Turns out to be one of the most rigorous of some of the security checks we will undergo on our trip.

We’re staying at a B & B in Mount Lawley, close to the centre of Perth, and we’ve had e-mail confirmation from the owners that the house key will be in the meter box by the door. Our room is the third on the left and could we switch off the lights once we get in. It’s an arrangement we could have made with a rural Canarian hotel and something I didn’t expect in Australia. At breakfast we met the owners Sandra and Bill, a pair of true blue Aussies. Bill likes to

give guests nicknames and by our second day he’s calling me “the paparazzi” because I’ve always got my camera round my neck.

Perth town centre has a strange mix of 19th century elegance contrasted with 1980s millionaire investors’ high rise office blocks, all overlooked by the lush bush land of King’s park. The overall feel is very relaxed and small-townish.

In Stirling Gardens we had a sudden flashback to Tenerife; there was a Drago tree growing, imported from the Canaries by some ancient botanist. He’d never have gotten it past the Department of Agriculture today!

The mint on Hay Street, built in 1899 to process the spoils from the gold rush, gives a fascinating insight into the tough life the prospectors led. Our guide is an old timer who shows us models of the biggest nuggets found in Western Australia. Before this was opened to the public a team of apprentices spent a week

cleaning the walls and ceiling and when the dust was melted down they recovered over A$100,000 worth of gold that had literally floated up into the rafters.

Down the Swan River lies Freemantle, or Freeo as its called locally. The Aussies, we soon discover, are highly inventive with their abbreviations: afternoon becomes ‘arfo’; well done

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Perth Capital Western Australia Population: 1,650,000. Fourth largest city in Australia History: Previously called Boorloo by the Aborigines Location: Set on the Swan River, one of most isolated metropolitan areas on earth.

Ethnic mix: English, Irish, Scottish, Italian, Chinese, Aborigine Currency: Australian Dollar

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Around the world in 71days Second Leg: Perth and Western Australia becomes ‘onya’ as in ‘good on ya’, and ‘smoko’ is a tea break even if you don’t smoke. In Freeo, we visited the famous markets which are housed in old warehouses dating back to when this was the main entry for all goods into Perth. We also discovered the Little Creatures Microbrewery and tasted some of their lovely ales and cider.

We also indulged in a dinner cruise, organised by Captain Cook Tours.

It was a gentle sail along the 15km stretch of river, watching the sun set, drinking a fruity local red wine, and enjoying a delicious selection of food from the hot and cold buffet.

By hire car we travelled south, first stop Guildford, where we had a walk around a heritage trail and learned about the trials and tribulations of the early settlers.

Then it was a quick tour around the Swan Valley wineries. The vineyards march up and down the valley in a very orderly fashion, all the vines growing ramrod straight and

topping out at precisely the same height, totally opposite to the random fashion we see in Tenerife.

Next day we drove south towards Busselton (Busso) to visit my uncle Dermot who I hadn’t seen since the mid seventies. We travelled along the Bunbury highway stopping at Mandurah for lunch then headed to Lake Clifton where we wanted to visit the Thrombolites, round rock-like creatures who dominated the world’s oceans more than 600 million years ago and are still living on the edge of this lake. Having paid our respects we rejoined the highway to Busso.

We spent ten days discovering the Geographe Bay area, a long sheltered waterway stretching 135km from Cape Naturaliste in the north to Cape Leeuwin on the south where we walked part of the Cape to Cape route alongside the turquoise Indian Ocean, and watched surfers at Yallingup. We visited the obser vator y eight metres below the ocean surface at

the end of the 1.8km long Busselton Jetty, the longest in the Southern hemisphere.

We also explored its underground equivalent in the Ngligli caves with spectacular stalactites and stalagmites which have taken millions of years to form. Inland we drove through miles and miles of bush where there are thousands of Gum trees and Jarrah, valued highly by the loggers who brought prosperity to the area. And believe it or not we found a winery or three in Margaret River, internationally famous for its production of estate bottled vintages. Almost all of them welcome visitors with an open cellar door and offer a tasting.

One of the highlights was experiencing a proper Aussie barbie laid on by my uncle and cousins. Freshly caught squid, kangaroo steaks and the obligatory amber nectar.

It was a fair dinkum way to end our stay in Australia’s largest state and next day we headed back to Perth to catch our next flight to Sydney.

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05. Gill and the spectacular Ngligi stalactites and stalagmites 06. The Dome café on Freemantle’s cappucino strip 07. Our Mint guide is an old timer 08. Kangaroos at Cape Geographe 09. The Perth skyline at dusk 10. Perth town hall surrounded by high rise office blocks

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Residents and regular visitors to Callao Salvaje have looked enviously at other small towns and villages that have their own saint, and therefore regular fiestas in their respective small plazas, bemoaning the fact that their village was being left out. Well no more.

Thanks mainly to the efforts of the newly reformed residents association, Cosmos AVCS, and the Adeje council, Callao Salvaje is, at last, beginning to acquire the appearance of a properly regulated village, with the new road markings and extra street parking generally welcomed. Now there is to be a big street party on July 5th in the Mirador (the plaza opposite Casa Maria), with bouncy castles, live music, table football and ping pong competitions for kids and adults, a giant paella, a dessert competition, a foam party, Barney and friends, a magician, and much much more. Labelled a DĂ­a de Convivencia (a day celebrating living together), the event is organised to bring all the residents of the area together, and encourage more people to get involved in the association.

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Ring road

Fiesta in Callao Salvaje

The controversial island circular road ran into more trouble early in June just above Icod, between El Amparo and La Vega, after a group of furious residents refused to allow earthmovers onto their properties.

The machines were there to cut the next section in the slow but steady construction of the road. On this occasion the residents were protesting, and with good reason, because they had not yet received the promised compensation from the government in exchange for their expropriated land.

Cabin crew union

Miami ight criticism The new flight between Tenerife and Miami may be a roaring success with politicians and businessmen but a cabin crew union is annoyed that the airline has not recruited local staff for the route. tion of foodstuffs as part of the Callao Solidario campaign (for those in need). As an extra bonus there will be a draw for a weekend for two in the Hotel Bahía del Duque, half board, to be taken either in July or September. Tickets

are still on sale in various outlets in the village and from Clio in the offices of Island Connections until Friday July 3rd. Up to now Adeje council have been unable to resume full responsibility for the zone as it has been still in the hands

of private developers, but this is soon to change. With building work complete, the new church will also open sometime later this summer, and with it the village will be allocated a Saint, and an annual fiesta date.

GARACHICO

Fishing port and marina Carloads of regional politicians spent a morning late in June visiting the construction site of the new port which has begun to take shape in Garachico.

In normal circumstances this would imply that the port, which has been on the cards since the early 1990s, is still on target for completion in 2012. Nevertheless RamĂłn Miranda, mayor of Garachico, still felt it prudent to call on his visitors to guarantee his port would receive enough funds for it to be finished.

People stop earthmovers

There have been many calls for a new port to be built ever since most of the original one was buried by the volcanic eruption in 1706.

The aim is for the project, a fishing port and sporting marina, to be handed over on 31st December, 2011. Nevertheless it has been revealed that the construction work will take seasonal breaks during the winters of 2009 and 2010 because, as predicted, the heavy winter seas will make work impossible. In fact architects realise they will have to create tempo-

rary breakwaters to protect work carried out during the summer. A progress report so far suggests that 60,000 cubic metres of earth have already been removed and that 1,200 five ton, 685 fifteen ton and 37 sixty ton concrete blocks to be used to create the harbour walls have been manufactured. The height of the main harbour wall will have to be 14 metres, from the bottom of the seabed, which is an example of the difficulties ahead.

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Over the years he has gained a reputation for being one of the most quietly able political leaders and has been behind most of Tenerife’s large projects in recent years.

He expressed his confidence that they could overcome all the hazards involved in building this port and that the north of Tenerife would once again count on a maritime refuge by 2012.

Air Europa is using cabin personnel from Madrid for the weekly transatlantic ight from Tenerife North, a decision which has irked the local branch of the union. “There are hundreds of hours of ying time to be rostered and it would have been a good idea to use Canarian ight attendants out of deference to the passengers, particularly bearing in mind that the route has been opened in part thanks to subsidies from the regional authorities,â€? complained a spokesman. “It is a pity that no extra jobs have been created as a result of the new service despite our insistence in talks with the airline since March,â€? he added.

Health service

Appointments up Once again the number of people needing health assistance in Tenerife has increased.

Demand for doctors at the island’s health centres and specialist consultants was up by 3.8 per cent last year with a total of 6,584,287 appointments across the island. Likewise the demand for nursing care increased by 4.9 per cent over 2007 ďŹ gures with a total number of appointments at 1,661,853. This number is likely to double if current plans to allow nurses to issue prescriptions for minor illnesses or repeat prescriptions go ahead.

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Carpets a hit PUBLIC CHARITY

Council gets food for needy At the beginning of June Puerto de la Cruz council announced it had received 26,000 kilos of basic foodstuff sent especially by the Spanish central government to help a growing number of families suffering the consequences of the economic crisis.

The Council had evidently asked the central government for assistance after its very public and embarrassing row with the La Mesa Association,

which began selling parcels of basic foods to families in need for just one euro last October. The association had accused the Mayor of doing nothing to help.

The Council reacted swiftly and instead of promising to lend a hand, the governing group hinted that the association was illegal.

Although the arrival of food is clearly welcome, many consider it a mere propaganda exercise, especially as the council said it would even deliver the

food straight to the door of those in need free of charge, unlike La Mesa.

Nevertheless this consignment may help rid the town of an embarrassing queue for rice, milk and other foodstuff which was doing nothing for the town’s good image as a tourist resort.

La Mesa, which began its charity in Puerto, now provides food to nearly 800 families throughout Tenerife. It still hopes it can come to an agreement with the Council.

Thousands turned out to see the carpets

A spot of rain in mid-June failed to dampen spirits in La Orotava although the heavy showers on Monday 15th made residents fear for their famous flower carpets and magnificent sand tapestry on the town hall square.

The tarpaulin covering the work of art was only removed at the very last moment so as to protect the sand from the rain for as long as possible. In fact the authorities estimated that 60,000 people poured into La Orotava just three days later to contemplate the 36

flower patterns created lovingly on the cobbled streets and the huge tapestry made from different coloured sands from Teide. But although many people regard that day, a fiesta in La Orotava, as ‘the day of the flower carpets,’ the grand finale is marked by a solemn religious occasion when a procession of the faithful carrying their icons and saints, parade slowly over the carpets and onto the giant sand tapestry on the square where the blessing takes place. The few days of unseasonable weather, due to

the arrival of a disturbance just to the north of the archipelago, preceded hotter weather than usual towards the end of the same week to greet revellers for the grand street party, el baile de magos, which was followed by la romería. This is the colourful, musical and religious pilgrimage which brings out the town’s, and possibly the island’s, best traditions of joy and friendship. Not even the untimely road works which turned many streets upside down in June could dampen the traditions.

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CANARIAN TOURISM

Free holidays T

o encourage people to stay in the islands for their holidays, the Canarian Regional Government is of fering free holidays.

The TV spot runs, The holidays are here, far-of f destinations, queues, delays, rushing around. Is it really worth it? The Canary Islands, stay and enjoy! As an additional attraction they are offering a prize draw which will make your Canarian holiday free. There are two cash prizes for a maximum of 2,000 euros each to cover the cost of inter island transport and/or accommodation for your summer holiday taken

It could be free if you stay in the Islands for your holiday

between May 1st and September 30th this year.

Applicants must be over 18 years old and register in the web www.quedateydisfruta. com with the details of their holiday. The prize cannot be transferred but you can register as many times as

you like providing the journeys and overnight stays are different.

To claim the prize you will be asked for proof of your journey and accommodation which must be for a minimum of two nights. You will also be asked for three different

photographs where the winner and the members of the group he or she is with are shown in the area where you had your holiday. If you have travelled to another island you will be asked for your boarding card. In the case of a group, the bill for the tickets should be in the name of the person registered. The draw will take place on October 20th before a notary.

Sounds great doesn’t it.

There’s only one problem, at the moment the web registration document doesn’t accept ‘foreign’ residency numbers although the rules of the competition do not limit it to Spaniards only. We tried to send an email via the direct web connection to the regional tourism authority and that doesn’t work either.

We’ll keep on it and keep you up to date.

CREDIT CRUNCH

Pop goes the weasel around the home to narrow the family budget gap.

No matter how weird or wonderful your unwanted possessions are, someone somewhere will give you hard cash for them. In Spain, the banks such as CajaCanarias have traditionally lent money against pawned valuables.

Now there is a postal service for those who want to cash in on old or broken jewellery to bring in some ready money without the stigma that some feel is attached to going to the pawnbrokers and a new company CashConverters is cashing in on the crisis

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although they claim to have been affected too. If you don’t want to bother setting up a car boot stall, or perhaps you don’t have enough unwanted stuff, consider a visit to this new franchise which has over 40 shops in Spain, two of which are in Gran Canaria and one in Santa Cruz.

You can sell and buy anything there from jewellery to white goods, televisions, video games, gym equipment, furniture, toys and musical instruments. Sellers need to be over 18 and have a valid resident’s certification and identification or D.N.I.

and it’s a good idea if you already know how much you want for an item. Once the sale is concluded the item passes a technical revision before being ticketed and priced for resale. Articles are on average some 40 to 50 per cent cheaper than when new. So that a check can be kept on stolen items, nothing goes for sale before a full week has passed and in the case of jewellery, two weeks. Clients can also leave an item there with the right to repurchase it but the cost is high, 20 per cent for the first month.

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New cash for old A German hardware chain is accepting pesetas again in its stores.

It’s not the first time a company has tried to coax into their tills some of the around 300 billion pesetas (equivalent to 1.78 billion euros) still estimated to be in circulation. The idea has been tried by various companies over the years since the peseta ceased to be legal tender in the spring of 2002. In the company’s five superstores in Catalonia and Andalusia until July 16th, the peseta will be swapped at the legal rate of 166.38 pesetas to the euro, for a voucher to be spent in the store. If the item you want is worth more then you can pay the extra in cash, if less, then you look for something else or leave it as a tip. Pesetas can still be exchanged for euros at the Bank of Spain.

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New spectacles Some great new offers are around from the larger optician groups as they too see business hit by family financial cutbacks.

The Allain Afflelou franchise are offering free credit for up to 12 months on purchases Take advantage of special offers to made before July 31st renew your glasses and MultiOpticas have an enormous range of new frames called Mó, which are on sale at 77 euros including the lenses.

Many of us struggle on with old specs and actually damage our eyes further rather than face the expense of new glasses, but an eye test is not just about a new pair of glasses, it is a vital health check for your eyes. It is recommended that your eyes are tested every two years minimum as an eye condition could be developing even though your vision is not yet affected. According to the Royal National Institute for the Blind, 47 per cent of people over the age of 60 fail to have their eyes tested regularly.

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financial crisis. An economic think-tank declared the UK economy all but free of the recession with an increase in the gross domestic product in April and May and a further increase expected in June.

If the predictions are true, it’s all good news for Spain and the islands, which have been particularly hit by the downfall from one of their traditionally largest markets. However it will take time for confidence to return and for people to start spending again and when they do, it’s far from certain that they will be spending in euros. Sterling is currently down ten per cent against the euro in comparison with the position last year, however it has decreased by 23.5 per cent over the last seven years, whilst destination competitors of ours outside the eurozone and with lower land and employment costs have actually improved in value.

For example travellers to Jamaica will get 91 per cent more for their money than they did seven years ago and Iceland’s tourist board have already reported an increase in British tourists as the pound improves 45.49 per cent to

Holiday sales revival

Car industry

Buy BMW Bosses at BMW have appealed to their employees for loyalty.

They have given letters to 7,000 of their employees who do not drive a BMW but have bought, Audis Mercedes and other makes of car belonging to their rivals. The letter reads, “What’s going wrong here?

You like working with us, and are fond of your job position and your work, but you drive a car from our competitors.” The letter was waiting for the workers tucked under their windscreen wipers when they came off shift.

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ccording to online firm, youtravel.com, bookings for June are up by 15 per cent overall and the number of late bookings are up over 20 per cent over the past six weeks.

Economic uncertainty over possible unemployment has led tourists to be more cautious than ever about booking ahead and searching for last minute deals. More than a fifth of the bookings are for travel within four weeks.

Unfortunately for the moment the Canaries don’t seem to figure on the rush for bargains list, it is Greece and Turkey who are ahead of the field along with Portugal and Tunisia. All four destinations have seen double digit growth in May. Both Rhodes and Crete are up 27 per cent compared to this time last year and Turkey’s Bodrum and Dalaman are up 11 per cent and 21 per cent respectively.

The on-line accommodation only booking agency’s sales and marketing director, Paul Riches shone a ray of light declaring, “Greece and Spain have been stalwarts of the British travel industry for decades, it’s going to take more than currency fluctuations to

Cruising

New Cunard liner Cunard Line’s 2011 world voyages are now on sale.

Their latest ship, the Queen Elizabeth will make its first round the world trip and take in overnight stops in Sydney, Hong Kong and Dubai. The Queen Mary 2 will make an east to west voyage staying at Cape Town, Sydney and Hong Kong. Both ships leave Southampton in January and between them will visit 57 ports of call across 34 countries. The new ship’s shakedown, or inaugural trip, will be to the Atlantic islands as has become traditional with Cunard. She leaves Southampton on October 12th next year and will be in Las Palmas on the 18th, Tenerife on the 19th and La Palma on the 20th. If you like ships and particularly cruise ships it’s a grand sight to see the inaugural ships welcomed into harbour. One for the diary.

Finance

Women’s banking Caixa Catalunya has launched a new banking programme all over Spain to attract women clients.

Their new finance packages are designed specifically for women’s needs and include finance for starting a business, for the expenses surrounding the birth of a child, or for starting a new stage in life after a divorce or widowhood for example. Their investigation has shown that despite Spain’s macho image, 85 per cent of the decisions in the home are made by women, who are increasingly more evident in the jobs market too. Currently 44 per cent of the active working population are women.

put the Brits off travelling to these destinations. They’re entrenched in our holiday psyche, are familiar and are easy to access. On top of this there are some great value all-inclusive resorts in Spain and Greece meaning that the strength of the euro can be largely mitigated.” He was optimistic that the season would improve.

That optimism has been mirrored by others in the industr y as the UK pound hit its highest level against the euro recently riding on a spate of euphoria after positive reports would seem to indicate that the UK economy will be the first to recover from the

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Kenyan shilling

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If the pound rallies further, we can hope to see an influx of visitors later in the year, although not up to recent years’ statistics, however we must somehow get the idea over to our prospective visitors that eurozone does not necessarily mean more expensive as proved by the Post Office® Holiday Costs Barometer 2009 we published in edition 592.

That showed that visitors to Turkey for example will pay more for a cup of coffee, a bottle of lager, sun cream, a postcard and stamp or a three course meal and a bottle of wine than if they had travelled to Spain. Basically visitors will be able to buy more for their money than they envisaged if they shop carefully.

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RESPONSIBLE TOURISM

New Biosphere Hotel T

he Gran Meliá Palacio de Isora in Guía de Isora is the latest of the island’s hotels to be awarded this prestigious certificate.

The Institute of Responsible Tourism (IRT) which judges whether a location or business meets their standards was created after the World Conference on Sustainable Tourism in 1995. It is an independent organisation, associated with UNESCO and UNWTO (World Tourism Organisation). The idea was to put sustainable development programmes and actions into practice within the tourist industry.

Actions which protect the environment, train staff, preserve the cultural heritage of the area, control the use

of water and energy, recycle waste, reduce harmful emissions and guarantee the health of the visitors.

The Gran Meliá Palacio de Isora joins Tenerife’s other Biosphere Hotel, the Hotel Botánico in Puerto de la Cruz

and the Hotel Abama is also in the process of obtaining the certificate.

Lanzarote is the leading Biosphere certificate holder in the hotel and apartment/ hotel section with 11 hotels already holding certificates

and two more pending. La Palma has three establishments listed, Fuerteventura has just one, La Gomera’s Hotel Gran Rey is that island’s only certificate holder and Gran Canaria has just one hotel with an application

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The islands in general fare very well in the certificate stakes, only one destination in the world is already listed as being sustainable, La Palma, and one more is under study in La Gomera. Of the 23 rural accommodations listed 22 are in Tenerife, La Gomera and La Palma, likewise of the seven restaurants listed, six are in La Palma and they have a further four under consideration. La Palma also

shows well in the active tourism certificates with seven companies already listed and a further three under study.

Gran Canaria has applied for three of its tourist routes to be graded.

The only golf clubs in the world to hold certificates are in Tenerife at Buenavista, Golf Costa Adeje, Golf del Sur, Golf Las Américas and Golf Los Palos and Abama has an application for consideration.

It will come as no surprise to its many fans that the Loro Parque is the only theme park in the world which has already received its responsible tourism certificate.

For further information on the companies and locations which have already received their quality certificate or are under consideration, check out the web site at www. turismoresponsable.org.

The Gran Meliá Palacio de Isora now holds the IRT certificate

Business in brief Ecological farming

Canarian tomatoes Do you remember the song about the old woman who swallowed the spider to catch the fly? Canarian farmers are about to follow her example.

A clean up of all the tomato growing areas, followed by closing them hermetically and using low impact disease control liquids will be combined with the release of insects which eat the eggs of the tomato crop damaging insect, Tuta absoluta. The model has already been tried in Murcia with great success. The Canarian Regional Government has set aside 450,000 euros to help with the new initiative, an indication of seriousness with which they view the extension of this plague.

Cristian Ronaldo

Footballers’ cash As Real Madrid try to play down the 94 million euros that the ex-Manchester United player Cristian Ronaldo has cost them, the player poses with a huge mound of suitcases with the slogan ‘here’s my money’ in a major marketing campaign.

The promotion is for the Banco Espirito Santo and has added fuel to the fire for calls for an increase in tax levels on sporting superstars. Currently, foreign stars with millionaire salaries pay tax at 43 per cent, but Cristian Ronaldo and his dressing room associate, Kaka, will only be taxed at 24 per cent.

An attempt to increase taxation for higher level earners was put in abeyance in the Spanish parliament recently after the Government failed to get a majority to agree to the proposal before presenting it to the house.

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By Bill Blevins

Financial

Confidence boost for UK recovery

By Bill Blevins, Financial Correspondent, Blevins Franks

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spate of recent data has shown that the UK economy could be starting to recover and the good news is boosting confidence.

According to the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) the recession may have ended in March. The respected think-tank said that Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by 0.1 per cent in May after a 0.2 per cent rise in April.

Optimism has spread among some economists who have concluded that the recession will end in the next quarter, if not beforehand.

However, official GDP data for the second quarter will not be available until 24th July. If this confirms growth then the UK downturn may

well be judged to have made a definite turnaround.

NIESR’s director, Martin Weale, said that he believed that the recession was now over “as far as I can tell”.

He wasn’t certain that the official data would confirm the NIESR’s statistics because the official figures are worked out on a quarterly average and not a monthly basis, and so are likely to show that the economy had only stagnated.

“The monthly figures are inevitably erratic but the picture is coherent with the broader picture of stabilisation which has emerged since we first suggested that the output had stopped falling on 13th May,” Weale said. He described March as having been the trough of the depression. “So far as we can say, the recession is over.”

The NIESR had singled out the BoE’s cuts in interest rates and quantitative easing measures as major reasons

for the turnaround. The NIESR’s data was backed up by news from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) that manufacturing output rose in April by 0.2 per cent, the second rise in two months.

Industrial output rose 0.3 per cent in April, the first increase since February last

Miami/Tenerife Miami flight

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Miami Commissioner, Rebeca Sosa, is given a traditional greeting by the authorities

Island president, Ricardo Melchior, was on hand to see one of his personal goals made reality, the landing of a direct flight to Tenerife from Miami.

Together with deputy president, José Manuel Bermúdez and economic councillor, Carlos Alonso, he waited on the flight apron to greet the honoured guests off the first flight. The group was led by the Commissioner for Miami-Dade, Rebeca Sosa and a representative of the mayor’s office, Luis Andrés Gazitua and also contained

various businessmen and women and leading media representatives. The members of the delegation are to be shown the various attractions we can offer in the areas of tourism, culture and business opportunities.

As well as making it easier for island residents to visit the United States of America, the island is receiving a big build up in press releases in Miami.

“Searching for the next ‘hot-spot’ destination?

With the launch of direct flights from Miami International Airport, a European

island paradise is just a few hours away,” announces one, quoting our own Bermúdez eulogising the island, “we have one of the most enjoyable climates and an extraordinary abundance of natural beauty because of our geographic location.

We also pride ourselves in having all of the comforts a modern traveller requires, whether visiting Tenerife for business or pleasure.”

The non-stop weekly flight offered by Air Europe is scheduled throughout the summer from Los Rodeos north Tenerife airport.

year. Trade figures showed that UK impor ts rose by two per cent in April and overall exports grew by 2.4 per cent.

Senior economic adviser to the Ernst & Young ITEM Club, Hetal Mehta, said the data was “an indication that the momentum in the econ-

omy is upwards.” Eurozone countries also received a confidence boost for the second consecutive month in May with the EU’s statistical arm Eurostat revealing an improvement in the Eurozone’s Economic Sentiment Indicator for the second month in a row.

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The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) had encouraging news that developed countries worldwide reached a possible trough in April. The OECD said its overall measure of the advanced economies that are its members now pointed to “recovery” instead of the “strong slowdown” they had been suf fering since last August.

The positive signs that economic growth is taking root may cause those who have been sitting on their cash to start moving it back into investments. Cash that has been resting in bank accounts paying minuscule interest rates could be working better in a broad based equity and bond fund portfolio.

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Bishop’s Palace reopens The recent reopening of the Bishop’s Palace in La Laguna, which was severely damaged by fire on 23rd January 2006, was an intensely emotional and joyful occasion.

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Dream Home MI CASA - A PROJECT TO REFURBISH AN AGEING CANARIAN HOUSE

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f you have been following this project in The Magazine, you will be pleased to hear that we will be continuing the series in Island Connections.

Robert and Dinah McAlees bought an old Canarian house in El Paso, and slowly but surely have been turning it into a home. They are currently working on the roof and creating a sun terrace.

The next phase involves several tonnes of ready-mix concrete. This is better completed in one day as joins in the concrete could cause problems later. This was a four-man job. It doesn’t look much now, but when it is finished it will be a 60 square metre sun terrace, with views of the sea and mount Teide. *(Pic 1) Meanwhile, underneath, we have a ‘forest’ of ‘puntos’ or metal supports to live with

and this wall has to come down. It’s in the middle of the living room! *(pic 2) The concrete had to be hosed down twice a day for two weeks, but this was hardly necessar y because the rain did the job! Then at last the sun came out and Robert could put the waterproof layer on the roof. Oh joy, no more metal posts and no more water flooding the living room! *(pic 3) Finally it is beginning to look like one big room. Two roof lights and a French window will make it more light and airy.

The floor will need to be concreted. The level will be quite a lot higher than this floor, because just as Robert predicted, the rain floods in from outside! Before that though, the conduit has to be

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laid down for the electrics.

The ceiling was a two-man job. Sheets of plaster board are very heavy. Local lads know the best and cheapest places to get materials and equipment. Everyone has a brother-in-law or an uncle who has what you need! They organised the crane for the ready-mix, the lorry for the metal supports and even extra wheelbarrows. *(Pic 4)

Before blessing the building, the Bishop of Tenerife, Bernardo Álvarez, summed up his feelings in just two words, “satisfaction and thanks”. Satisfaction with the work done, and thanks to the thousands of people, institutions, companies, parishes and many more, “without whose support and solidarity it would not have been possible to complete the work”.

While the ceiling was going up, the new concrete floor was going down. The before and after pictures show the progress. This is what it looked like at the end of November. Keep an eye on the pillar, it will be a reference point for future shots.

For more information regarding property renovations and DIY, contact Robert at rjmcalees@yahoo.com or phone number 922 81 40 73.

Amongst others, the minister for education, universities, culture and sports, Milagros Luis Brito, the president of the Cabildo, Ricardo Melchior, the mayor of La Laguna, Fernando Clavijo, the Bishop of the Canarian diocese, Francisco Cases, several priests and members of Canarian society attended the event. In his speech, Clavijo remembered the day of the fire as one of the most difficult times he had experienced as a politician, and added, “this is a day to congratulate everyone, because we have, together, achieved the unthinkable”. Representing the Canarian government, Brito spoke of, “a job well done” as well as the affection and efforts of so many people and institutions.

She continued, “a job like this reminds us of what the men and women of the Canaries are capable of achieving”. As well as thanking everyone concerned, Melchior expressed his satisfaction at seeing this important renovation completed, not only for La Laguna, but for Tenerife and the Canaries. “We all had a common objective”, and referred to a job undertaken, “with diligence and respect”.

Bishop Álvarez informed those present that the cost of the work had risen to seven million eight hundred thousand euros and that the diocese still had to collect just over 600,000 euros towards this.

He hopes that within a month the offices of the diocese can be transferred to the restored building so that by September it will be business as usual. In total, the work took just over 23 months to complete, and three and a half years after that destructive fire, restoration is practically complete. The general public were given an opportunity to see the completed building during a weekend of open days at the end of June.

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Dear Doctor I sweat excessively regardless of the temperature, should I be concerned? What are my options?

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Dear Richard Hyperhidrosis, or excessive sweating, is a common disorder which sometimes produces unhappiness and some embarrassment in certain social settings.

My first advice should be not to panic or be too concerned. Although neurological, metabolic, and other systemic diseases can sometimes cause hyperhidrosis, most cases occur in people who are other wise healthy. Heat and emotions may trigger hyperhidrosis in some, but many who suffer from hyperhidrosis sweat nearly all their waking hours, regardless of their mood or the weather. Talk to your GP first. If your doctor is

unable to treat you directly, you may be referred to a dermatologist.

Through a systematic evaluation of causes and triggers of hyperhidrosis, followed by a judicious, stepwise approach to treatment, many patients with this annoying disorder can achieve good results and improved quality of life. The approach to treating excessive sweating generally proceeds as follows: Over-the-counter antiperspirants: Antiperspirants containing aluminium chloride may be more effective when other antiperspirants have failed.

Watch how you dress: The type of clothes as well as the materials they are made of can make a big difference.

Go for lightweight fabrics that breathe.

Iontophoresis: Its exact mechanism of action is still unclear, although it probably works by plugging up the sweat duct. The procedure uses water to conduct an electric current to the skin which combats production of sweat.

Oral medications are not commonly used for excessive sweating, because in order to work they often produce side effects like dry mouth

and blurred vision.

Botox (botulinum toxin), a nerve toxin that can temporarily paralyze muscles is often in the news as a cosmetic treatment for wrinkles. Its latest medical niche is the treatment of excessive underarm sweating.

Surgery: Sympathectomy is both effective and risky, this option is rarely used, and then only as a last resort.

Dear Doctor I have been told I have

pre-diabetes, is it reversible? Can I stop the progression?

THANK YOU, MARK

Dear Mark Like most things in life, yes, you can stop the process. Benjamin Franklin, a great erudite with an unusual amount of common sense reminds us that, only two things are cer tain in life, death and taxes.

Evidence of insulin resistance and changes in blood sugar linked to type II Diabetes can be measured more than a decade before the disease occurs, new research confirms. This sends a clear message to us: when it comes to type II Diabetes, we have a lot of control over it. Healthy lifestyle choices will make a significant impact.

There are distinct phases in the progression to diabetes, which may require different disease prevention strategies.

During the first phase, which occurs six or more

years before diagnosis, glucose levels remain relatively stable but insulin resistance increases along with insulin secretion. Lifestyle changes, like increasing physical activity, changing diet, and reducing obesity, could have the biggest impact.

The second phase is characterized by increased betacell activity as the pancreas produces more insulin to compensate for insulin resistance. Lifestyle changes along with blood-sugar regulating medications like metformin are normally necessary.

During the final phase toward progression, insulin production drops and blood glucose levels rise dramatically and rapidly. Generally speaking, people who are considered to have pre-diabetes are in this final phase or close to it.

Early intervention is the key. Dare to lead a healthy lifestyle and soon you’ll forget about type II diabetes.

Dr. De La Flor, G.P. is licensed in medicine & general surgery. He holds certificates in nutrition, medical exercise and human performance from the University of Berkeley in California, the American Council on Exercise and the U.S. National Strength & Conditioning Association. He is a strong believer in work/life balance and spends much of his time outside of his surgery on the tennis court or chasing his four kids around the neighbourhood. 697.888.666

HealthNews Gum disease

Free oral examinations S

ome 60 dentists in the province of Santa Cr uz de Tenerife have joined a campaign to diagnose and prevent periodontal disease – a condition which af fects the gums, bones and other tissues which suppor t the teeth. The campaign which has been organised by the Santa Cruz dental association and the Spanish society for periodoncia and bone integration (SEPA) was devised to create public awareness of the impor tance of a healthy mouth, not just teeth, by offering free examinations and diagnoses.

Gum disease (gingivitis) usually begins with bleeding gums. According to dental association president

Francisco Perera, many people are unaware that they are suf fering from gingivitis, which can advance and provoke more serious problems, including vascular and cardiac diseases.

The president of the association’s scientific commission, Antonio Gómez Jiménez indicated that gum disease can lead to chronic illnesses, “which is why we advise everyone to take advantage of this campaign”, so that if you have any problems with your gums you can be treated promptly. He explained that an examination is important for many reasons. “In pregnant women, gum disease can provoke premature births, or babies under weight at bir th”, and stressed that

smokers have a higher risk factor. Gum disease is caused by bacteria lodged below the gums, and the situation worsens when a patient is also susceptible to other factors including genetics, stress, smoking and badly controlled diabetes.

The statistics are alarming.

A recent survey demonstrated that 34.5 per cent of people aged 15 years had healthy gums, falling to only 14.8 per cent in the 35 to 44 age group and a shocking 10.3 per cent in people aged 65 to 74.

To find out which dentists in your area are offering free examinations until 15th July, go to www.dentef.es and click on the red box “campaña salud de las encías”, or call 922 534 030.

European Commission

Reducing cancer The European Commission has proposed a joint effort in the fight against cancer.

The first phase of the strategy will be put into action between 2009 and 2013 with the intention of reducing deaths by cancer by 15 per cent before 2020 and doubling the number of early detection controls.

One in three residents of the EU will suffer from cancer at some point in their lives and the most recent death rates for the whole Union show that in 2006 175 people died of cancer for ever y 100,000 inhabitants which makes it the second highest cause of death in the EU. In particular the new strategy will improve the coordination of investigation, prevention and treatment of cancer and develop interchanges of information between hospital systems, national organisations, scientific experts, patients associations and other implicated groups.

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Health Directory Hospitals HOSPITAL LA CANDELARIA Carretera Del Rosario 145 Santa Cruz de Tenerife 922 602 000 hospitaldelacandelaria. com HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO Carretera Cuesta-Taco San Cristobal de La Laguna (Tenerife), 922 678 000 huc.es COSTA ADEJE HOSPITAL Urb. San Eugenio.

Edif Garajonay Adeje Tel.: 922 752 626 Fax: 922 753 636 HOSPITEN SUR Playa de Las Américas Arona-Tenerife Tel.: 922 75 00 22.

Fax: 922 79 36 18 HOSPITEN BELLEVUE C/ Alemania, 6 Urb. San Fernando.

Puerto de la Cruz Tel.: 922 38 35 51 Fax: 922 37 03 12 HOSPITEN TAMARAGUA C/ Agustín de Bethencourt, 30 Puerto de la Cruz Tel.: 922 38 05 12 Fax: 922 38 08 50

DIAL 112 Emergency Spa AQUA CLUB TERMAL www.aquaclubtermal. com C/ Galicia (Torviscas Alto) S/N 38660 Adeje Tel: 922 716 555

Beauty MISS NAIL Manicure & Pedicure Spa Parque Santiago III Local 6, Arona Tel: 600 557 763

DIAL 112 Emergency Doctor DOCTOR DE LA FLOR Calle Tinerfe El Grande 9, Adeje 697 888 666 (Doctor), 637 245 270 Family medicine, home or hotel visits

Health SHIATSU Treatment for poor circulation, pain, aches and cramps www.me-reliefnews.com Tel: 636 239 940 ORTOPEDIA Ctra. Gral, Orotava-Icod 41º La Mancha. Specialist shop for or thopaedic needs. English spoken Tel: 922 812 807 BELLISSIMA Osteopathy, acupuncture, Reiki, Reflexology, Chiropody, Holistic massage Sports Centre Los Gigantes.

Tel: 922 719 355 San Eugenio Alto

Health

Gran Canaria

SPORTS MASSAGE THERAPY

HOSPITAL DR. NEGRÍN

Tel: 669 558 692 Pre & post event, sports injury treatments in your home or club.

Also therapeutic, holistic and relaxation massage.

Malcolm Allen.

C/. Barranco de la Ballena, s/n. 35020 Las Palmas.

Tel. 928 450 000 Fax: 928 449 100

C.H.Ed.Dip.Mass.

Sacdip(sports massage)

HOSPITAL INSULAR

Plaza Doctor Pasteur 35020 Las Palmas.

Tel. 928 313 033 MATERNO-INSULAR

5ELEMENTOS Feng-Shui / Chinese Astrology / Nutrition.

Consultations on the spot, holistic health check, nutrition consultation Roger & Daniela Tel: 628 012 987 www.5-elementos.com

Gynecology DR MICHEAL THEIS Calle La Hoya 55 Puerto de la Cruz In the south on Saturdays at Hospital Las Americas Tel 922 370897 Specialist in gynecology

Dentist

Avda Maritima del Sur 35016 Las Palmas.

Tel: 928 444 500 Fax 928 444 288

Hair · Beauty · Nails · B Osteopathy · Acupuncture · · Chiropody E Reiki &· Reflexology Holistic Massage · · Indian Head L Aromatherapy Massage · Sports Injury · Electrolysis L Sports Centre Los Gigantes Tel / Fax 922 867 343 I San Eugenio Alto (next to Roy’s Pizzas) Tel / Fax 922 719 355 S Mon - Sat 10am - 6pm S NEW OPENING Juan (next to Santos) I Playa de San Tel. 697 902 361 M A M A RY COHR PARIS

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Shiatsu

CLÍNICA SAN ROQUE – SUR

Mar de Siberia 1 Urb. Meloneras 35100 MaspalomasMeloneras Tel: 928 063 600

with Michael Clark

Michael is recognised as one of the top Shiatsu practitioners in the Western World.

He was Japanese trained and has been practising for over 25 years. During this time, Michael has unbelievably taken over 400 people out of wheelchairs.

CLÍNICA ROCA

C/ Buganvillas 1 35100 San Agustín Las Palmas.

Tel: 928 76 90 04 Fax: 928 76 12 48

If you suffer from poor circulation, causing pain, aches or cramps – you have these problems unnecessarily.

One treatment of four and a half hours with Michael is specially designed to help with these problems and will last for years.

CLÍNICA SALUS LAS PALMERAS

Avda. de Tenerife, 24 Centro Comercial Kasbah Playa del Inglés Tel: 928 762 992

'Life is for living – not for getting a stroke or thrombosis'.

Michael is based in Ocean View Apts., San Eugenio Alto

Give Michael a call anytime on his mob: 636 239 940 www.me-reliefnews.com

(next to Roy’s Pizza)

Tel: 922 719 355 CLÍNICA BARAJAS HEARING AID Assesments without obligation. Name brand hearing aids. English speaking personnel Los Cristianos 922 790 563 Santa Cruz 922 275 488

Nursing TENERIFE NURSING & CARE Tel: 922 396 388 Mob 639 977 334 www tenerifenursingandcare. com

CLINICA ESTETICA DENTAL Urb. Miraverde, HLS Center, 1ª Planta Derecha, Costa Adeje General denistry, implantology specialists, laser technology, multilingual team

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We hear what you need >> Hearing aids assessments without obligation >> Name brand hearing aids >> English speaking personnel >> Prices 40% lower than the UK

Tel: 922 715307 DR. LANGELAND, ZAHNARZT Callao Salvaje 922 740 474

GERMAN CLINIC BUZANADA Tel: 922 767166

All of our hearing aids come with a 30-day, money-back guarantee

Hearing aids consultants Founded over 100 years ago Los Cristianos: Policlínica Spreafico Edificio Simón, local 1. Tel: 922 79 05 63 Santa Cruz: Clínica Barajas C/ Pérez de Rozas, 8. Tel: 922 27 54 88 ©IC/550/2007

Specialist shop for your orthopaedic needs We speak English

Carretera Gral. Orotava-Icod, 41 bajo. La Mancha (38430) Icod de Los Vinos Tel. 922 812 807 / 121 804 Fax: 922 812 911

DOCTOR De La Flor

FAMILY MEDICINE / G.P. 10 years of experience in the USA

HOME / HOTEL VISITS

Best prices, honesty & €30 / €50 professionalism GUARANTEED Tinerfe El Grande, 9. ADEJE (next to Postal Office)

00 34 697 888 666 for Doctor 00 34 637 245 270 for diet advice

Clínica Estética Dental High standard dentistry in a comfortable environment with the most advanced technology

• General Dentistry • Specialist in Implantology since 1980 • One of the founder members of German Society of Implantology (DGI) • Dental laser technology

A professional multiling ual teuam awaits yo

Tel / Fax 922 71 53 07

Urb. Miraverde, HLS HLLS - Center, 1ª Plan Planta Derecha, Costa Adeje

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The Party:

FestivalReview

MusicNews

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Gloria Estefan gig T

Energy rising

Oprah Winfrey

EÓLICA, NOW IN ITS SEVENTH YEAR, TAKES PLACE ON JULY 18TH

op Cuban singer Gloria Estefan is to return to the Canaries on July 25th during the final phase of her 90 Millas world tour.

55TH BIRTHDAY

Celebrated her 55th birthday with a party for 1,723 close friends at the Poble Espanyol resort in Montjüic, followed by a 10 day cruise for all invitees.

The Gig :

According to her official web page, she will be offering a special concert at the Estadio de Gran Canaria in Las Palmas.

Teenage Fanclub

The Pretenders SANTA CRUZ AUDITORIO July 6th Chrissie Hynde and The Pretenders play the Santa Cruz Auditorio on July 6th, tickets: www. generaltickets.com

Spain top 10 SOURCE: PROMUSICAE

1. C. Baute/Marta S. Colgando en tus manos 2. Alesha Dixon The boy does nothing 3. Macaco Moving 4. Lady GaGa Poker Face 5. Magan Presents Verano Azul 6. Guru Josh Project Infinity 2008 7. Paulina Rubio Causa y Efecto 8. Coldplay Viva la Vida 9. El Sueño de Morfeo Si no estas 10. Luis Fonsi/ Bisbal Aqui estoy yo

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The evening’s entertainment takes place on four distinct stages

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ith Glasgow band Teenage Fanclub the multi-national and multi-talented list of guest artists.

As in previous years, the one day festival stages a series of day time family based events, very hands-on, promoting the environmental themes of Eólica and the ITER park in Granadilla, from windmill building to operating a solar-based scalextric. Later on as dusk falls the older audience can choose from a number of stages and musical styles to rock the night away. Zen gardens, making costume jewellery out of old newspapers, solar cookery demonstrations, soaps, aromatherapy, massage demonstrations – they are just to whet the appetite, and with a family ticket for the day events (from 12 midday to 6pm) at just three euros, children under 12 free, this is a perfect way

to pass a fascinating summer’s day with the kids.

As is now the norm, there are four separate stages, Carton, Plastic, Organic and Cristal (glass), where party goers can choose between electronic, chill out, pop-indie, rock-pop, techno and this year there will also be a space dedicated to experimental music.

Teenage FanClub The Glaswegians are an alternative rock band with Norman Blake on vocals and guitar, Raymond McGinley, vocals and lead guitar, Gerard Love, vocals and bass and Francis McDonald on drums, with songs penned by all three singer/songwriters. The band have been together (with some alternative drummers) for almost 20 years, and their sound has been variously described as Byrd-esque, Neil Young-ish and they have also been

compared to Big Star, with their biggest hit to date being Ain’t That Enough.

Carton Catpeople and Oblique are two Spanish bands who will draw the crowds to the Carton stage, where pop-rock will dominate.

Catpeople members hail from Barcelona and Figo and their 2008 album, Whats the Time Mr Wolf brought them new national and European audiences. The influences of Human League and OMD can be heard in the music of Oblique, who won Best Band at the Spanish pop Pop-Eye 2006 Festival and the Heineken Kulture Movement 2007.

Plastic The Plastic stage will offer the most international line-up, with sounds in the hands of French music mixer Oxia, and American

dance music maestro Dennis Ferry, one of the industry’s top producers. They will be joined by Rhadoo, one of the best exponents of electronic pop from Eastern Europe.

Organic Notable this year for an excellent mix of artists and musicians coming from the Madrid based Club 7, where the European Eólica tour ended, including contributions from Kasper & Papol and René Sandoval, Hemmann & Kaden, purveyors of fine electronic, techno and house sounds.

Cristal and the experimental room Glimpse, using music, video and mixed images, Un Hombre Solo, presenting his new record UHS and GAF will headline this section of the night.

As well as performing many of her greatest hits achieved during her long musical career such as Mi Tierra and Oye Mi Canto, she will also sing several songs from her latest Grammy award winning album, 90 Millas. For this concert, her support artists will be the Cuban duo BNK and she will be backed by the legendary Miami Sound Machine. The album 90 Millas has won a gold disc for more than 50,000 copies sold in Spain, and has sold more than 90,000,000 copies worldwide. Tickets are already on sale online from La Caja de Canarias, or from El Corte Inglés. More information on www.gloriaestefan.com.

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op Spanish pop group La Oreja de Van Gogh and Venezuelan singer Carlos Baute will both be performing at Valverde, El Hierro during the fiestas of the Bajada de la Virgen.

La Oreja de Van Gogh are currently promoting their single Último Vals while Carlos Baute has enjoyed a number one hit in Spain with Marta Sanchez, Colgando en tus Manos.

The dates for your diary are July 15th at 9pm for La Oreja de Van Gogh (more information on www.laorejadevangogh.com), and July 17th at 10pm for Carlos Baute.

More information and tickets in advance at 10 euros can be obtained from the office of the Bajada de la Virgen beside the Cabildo.

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El Camisón Playa de las Américas OPEN DAILY: 12noon-11.30pm

Locals’ Choice

TABLE RESERVATIONS : 922 787 445

RESTAURANT REVIEW

Little Italy Xoti Canarian

LA ERMITA C/La Plaza s/n Tierra del Trigo, Los Silos 10 am – 10 pm 922 840 088 SPECIALITIES: Local wine Goat meat stew Cod Marinated pork chunks *Closed Tuesdays Holidays: 25/7-31/8

Canarian

CASA TOMÁS El Portezuelo Tegueste Tuesday to Saturday 12 noon to 11.30 pm Sunday 12 noon to 8 pm 922 638 007 SPECIALITIES: Local wine Bacon ribs, sweetcorn and potatoes *Closed Mondays Holidays: August

Since 1984 when they began in Los Cristianos, Little Italy restaurants have been a reference for good food in the south of Tenerife.

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hey are known for their delicious pastas, pizzas and a wide selection of Italian and international dishes.

Little Italy Xoti is situated in El Camisón, Playa de las Américas, close to the Zentral Center, shops and the beach, with plenty of easy car parking nearby.

The restaurant specialises only in good, healthy food. Tr y the seafood, or the spaghetti which is an absolute must. The ample main menu contains a wide range of cold and hot starters - soups, salads and pastas. Everything is home made and fresh, with authentic items imported direct from Italy, so you know you are getting the real thing.

Try the homemade egg pasta, the very special pasta which is made to an old Roman recipe, or the oven baked stuffed pastas. The selection of veal scallops are an authentic

delicacy, and there are also plenty of chicken, pork and steak dishes to make your mouth water. At Little Italy, the chefs realise the benefits of slow cooking and have a section in their menu called ‘low flame cuisine’ which includes Chicken Roman Style, Roast Lamb Roma, and the chef’s speciality, Three Kings, Three Sauces (fillets of beef, pork and chicken with three sauces). There is fish and seafood, risotto, Italian paella, 22 different pizzas (or create your own), and of course side dishes. For dessert, try a Zabaglione, various gateaux, ices, or eat healthily with a delicious fresh fruit salad. Good wines from Italy and Spain are available at reasonable prices to accompany your meal.

At lunchtimes there is the Four Aces menu which includes starter, main course and dessert with bread and butter plus an appetiser for only

8.90 euros per person. There are always four options to choose from, and it is ideal for a quiet business lunch. You will always find great food at Little Italy and there is always a reason to go back, always something else to try.

Sit inside in the comfortable, spacious and well decorated, air conditioned restaurant with soft background music or dine al fresco on the terrace. In the unlikely event that you cannot find what you want on the extensive menu, just ask the chefs to cook you something – you won’t be disappointed. They will literally make anything for you. To eat at Little Italy is a unique opportunity to be adventurous.

It is no surprise that Walter, known as the great number one Italian chef on the island – is often to be found at Little Italy Xoti. Many customers will remember him when he used to cook in the Little Italy

restaurant in Avenida Suecia, Los Cristianos in 1984 when it all began.

He is knowledgable, has lots of imagination and just loves to cook.

He says that, “good food must be just that – good food. It doesn’t have to be expensive”. He prefers to produce slow cooked foods – just like Mama used to make, “so that each mouthful makes you want to take another”. And that’s the way it is at Little Italy Xoti.

If you have ever dined at Little Italy, you will already know that ever ything is perfectly cooked, the presentation exquisite and that you can relax and enjoy. For more information and menus, go to www.glirestaurantes.com and to make your reservation, call 922 787 445.

Buen provecho Little Italy forever!

Canarian

HERMANO PEDRO C/El Hoyo Ifonche Between Arona and Vilaflor 10 am – 10 pm 922 725 022 SPECIALITIES: Local wine Escaldón Rabbit Home made desserts *Closed Mondays Holidays: 1/8 – 15/9

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TAKE A BREAK

Budget holidays IN THIS SECOND PART OF OUR TWO PART SERIES, WE SHOW YOU HOW TO TAKE A BREAK WITHOUT BREAKING THE BANK REAJ Hostal Association: Membership> Family 25€ a year Foreing Youth CardHolders 3.5 Info> 922 82 20 56

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ome holiday offers are only available for certain age groups, for example, young people have the opportunity to join work camps all over the world. Normally you just pay for transport and a minimum contribution towards your keep. Full board, excursions and the chance to know another community is on offer in exchange for around five hours a day, five days a week working in community and environmental programmes. www. eurojoven.org/www.juventudcanaria.com In Gran Canaria and all over Spain, workers and retired people have the op-

tion of choosing a ‘residencia de tiempo libre’. Places are limited and prices are so cheap that they usually book up early, but there are still some dates available. They are small comfortable hotels offered at a very reasonable rate. Many are in exquisite countryside or front line beach locations. Prices range from 18 to 30 euros per person per night with reductions for children. You have to send in a formal application (solicitude), which is usually available on the Internet, and depending on the dates, some are allocated on a first come first served basis and others have different priorities including

La Gomera *Garajonay National Park El Hierro *Hoya del Morcillo Gran Canaria *Mogán&Agüimes Lanzarote La Graciosa Fuerteventura whether or not you have used the system or that particular hotel before.

There are over 230 hostels all over Spain many of which are in the REAJ hostels association. A year’s membership for a family is just 24 euros and foreign youth card holders can use the facilities for 3.5 euros a year. There is no age limit but bear in mind that you will often be sharing a room with strangers.

Between now and next year, La Palma will have six new hostels in operation, in Gran Canaria there is a good facility at Tejeda, in Lanzarote at La Santa and in Tenerife

SPECIAL OFFERS

922 88 09 49 922 55 00 17 928 21 94 65 928 17 37 24 928 84 20 00 928 86 23 00

there is a climbers’ refuge at Altavista in Teide, and installations at Bolico and Añaga.

The latter is sited in one of the Canary Islands’ most beautiful natural areas with rooms for two, four or six people, perhaps more suitable for couples and families as well as groups. The cost in the hostels is from just 14 euros per person per night with discounts for groups, under 14s over 65s etc. For more information and reservations, call 922 82 20 56 Monday to Friday between 8am and 3pm.

There are lots of campsites all over the Canaries and many are free of charge, but you will have to register at

least seven days in advance. Camping equipment is very cheap and a great investment, check out the offers in good sports stores like Decathlon, where you will also get the best advice on what to buy.

The form for applying and the list of camp sites can be found on www. todotenerife.es/index.php?sectionID =41&lang=2&s=5& ID=4799. Information on La Palma sites can be found via their Web page: www.lapalmaturismo.com and infor-

KAYAK EXCURSIONS

Hotel discounts

Ride the waves

Even the best hotels in the islands have special offers.

Until the end of September, El Cardón environmental education is offering kayak trips from Monday to Saturday.

The Hotel Botánico in Puerto de la Cruz is running their summer Botánico Adventure Academy for families.

The kids get to go to special adventure classes in the wonderful animal park at Loro Parque and all the family can enjoy the luxurious Oriental Spa and hotel facilities. In the south, the Hotel Jardín Tropical has offers for honeymooners, early bookers, golf packages at the Abama course, a seven diamonds package full of goodies for all the family or up to 300 euros discount per room for a week’s holiday taken before October 31.

mation on the only site in La Gomera, a private facility in the middle of the Garajonay National Park at El Cedro, can be obtained by calling 922 880 949. El Hierro’s campsite belongs to the island council. It’s in Hoya del Morcillo and information and booking is via their environment department on 922 550 017.

Gran Canaria Cabildo sites can be reserved on 928 219 465, extension 70 and there are also two private sites at Mogán and Agüimes.

Lanzarote sites are reserved through 928 173 724, La Graciosa’s tiny site is the responsibility of Teguise council, 928 842 000, Cabildo sites on Fuerteventura need to be booked via their offices at 928 862 300, many boroughs also have sites, information from the individual town halls.

Finally, Spain has very heavy fines for illegal camping, especially on the coast, it really isn’t worth it.

For just 10 euros you can enjoy a 45 minute trip in a kayak in the beautiful waters off Punta de Teno with spectacular views of La Gomera under the towering Los Gigantes cliffs. No booking required, leaving every hour from 12 noon to 6.00 pm and accompanied by fully qualified monitors.

*Punta Teno Mon - Sat Leaving every hour 45min Special Summer Prices

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Titsa Bus service Get anywhere you want in Tenerife

Where to go? / How to get there?

What to do Activities Swimming: Playa Jardín, Playa Martiánez, the natural pools at San Telmo or time out in the marvellous Lago Martiánez.

Trampolining: Close to Lago Martiánez, the playground at the Plaza del Charco, shade provided by some big palm trees.

Minigolf: Restaurant Minigolf in Puerto de la Cruz/La Paz – have fun while playing or let your children have an extra turn, while you relax after lunch or dinner.

Línea 325 Los Gigantes

Línea 343 Las Américas

Mountainbiking: (for bigger children and their parents) Guided Tours available.

Info from Mountainbike Active S.L., Calle Mazaroco, Edf. Daniela 26, bajo (opposite the bus station).

Línea 103 Santa Cruz

Los Cristianos

Surf school: La Marea Surfschool Courses for groups or individuals, children, teenagers and adults, all you need available for hire.

Puerto de la Cruz

Puerto de la Cruz

Diving School: (for teenagers) Atlantik Diving School in Hotel Maritim.

Puerto de la Cruz was Tenerife‘s very first tourist destination

Parks the Playa Martiánez, and let the children run free. And for the best ice-cream in town make sure you go to the Cafe in the Columbus Centre in the Plaza del Charco.

Loro Parque: Have an exciting day out with dolphins, orcas, sea lions and parrots. Do get there early, at about 10 am, to have time to explore all there is to see in this great park, and make sure you do visit all the shows.

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•Línea 343 Playa de las Américas/Los Cristianos – Puerto de la Cruz • Línea 325 Los Gigantes – Puerto de la Cruz • (direct) Línea 103 Santa Cruz – Puerto de la Cruz

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How to get there

Oasis del Valle: Have a ride on a camel or pony and enjoy the lovely park built around a mansion from the 19th century. Garden, restaurant, Canarian traditions and an old Gofio Molino (mill).

Pueblo Chico: Mini-Tenerife, the nicest spots and places of Tenerife and other Canarian islands in miniature.

Feel like a giant; feel great in a “mini-park”

Gardens Botanical Garden: Have a walk and discover some spectacular plants and trees.

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ist zone. There is a sense of being part of the place from the moment you arrive rather than a visitor on the outside. Have a coffee, lunch or dinner in or outside one of Puerto’s many delightful restaurants Walk along the pedestrianised shopping mall from the Plaza del Charco to

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ut even today manages to combine a Canarian lifestyle with the necessities of a resort.

Tourists can stroll around this picturesque Northern city and feel the pulse of a vibrant small metropolis rather than a faceless tour-

Sitio Litre: Typical English garden with a most beautiful selection of orchids. Walk in the Agatha Christie’s corner, a visitor to this garden in her day.

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2. His uncle offered him a job with the camels, but that wasn’t enough

1. Born to a farming family in La Palma, his father was a village elder, but Jonay wanted so much more

3. He ran to the church seeking help, but the police came looking for him

PuebloChico Jonay’s dream was to travel...

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5. They took the first plane out of there, but landed in a strange world of giants

4. In desperation he asked his girlfriend Yaiza to leave with him

6. They ran to the ferry port and started a voyage of discovery of the seven Canary Islands

7. Culture combined

9. But finally realised that they had all they needed right here, in Pueblochico

with modernity, amazing landscapes and stunning scenery

8. Still in need of life in the fast lane, they ended up in Santa Cruz

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What’s On Gran Canaria Museums & Theatres

Tenerife Auditorium Tenerife www.auditoriodetenerife. com Av. Constitución, 1

38003 Santa Cruz Phone 902 31 73 27

Guimerá Theatre www.teatroguimera.es

Plaza Isla de la Madera, 2- 38001 Santa Cruz Phone 902 36 46 03

CajaCanarias Cultural Centre

FIESTAS July 4, 5 pm, Romería San Fermín 2009, Gando village, Telde July 5, 7 pm, Battle of the Flowers, La Atalaya, Santa María de Guia

July 18, 5 pm, Romería Santiago de Los Caballeros

July 21, 8.30 pm, Chinatown Multicines Monopol, Las Palmas

July 18, 7.30 pm, Romería Santiago El Chico, Tunte, Santa Lucía de Tirajana

EXHIBITIONS

CONCERTS

Until July 5, Por Narices by Fernando Älamo Centro de Arte La Regenta, Las Palmas

July 18, Carlos Baute, Parque de las Rehoyas, Las Palmas

MUSIC

Museum of Science & Space (MCC)

July 3, 9 pm, The James Taylor Quartet, Link. Playa de Melenara, Telde

Museum of Nature & Archaeology (MNH)

18th International Jazz Festival, Canarias Jazz y Más

July 4, 12 noon to 2.30 pm, Jonathan Kreisberg Quartet.

Escuela Yamaha, Las Palmas July 4, 9 pm, Mezzoforte, Jonathan Kreisberg Quartet.

Santa Brígida Cultural Centre

s/n 38003 Santa Cruz Phone 922 535 128

July 6, 9 pm, Francesco Cafiso, the Italian Jazz Quartet, Diego Barber Quartet. Paraninfo ULPGC

Tenerife History Museum (MHAT)

July 7, 9 pm, Christian McBride and Inside Straight. Okou.

Paraninfo, ULPGC

www.museosdetenerife. org C/ Fuente Morales,

www.museosdetenerife. org C/ San Agustín, 20/22

38201 San Cristóbal de La Laguna Phone 922 825 949/43

Anthropology Museum www.museosdetenerife. org C/ Vino, 44

38270 Valle de Guerra (La Laguna) Phone 922 546 300

Casa Lercaro C/ San Agustín, 20-22 38201 San Cristóbal de La Laguna. Phone 922 82 59 49

Tacoronte main road to Valle de Guerra, s/n. 38270 Phone 922 546 300

Gran Canaria Cuyás Theatre www.teatrocuyas.com

Pérez Galdós Theatre www.teatroperezgaldos.es

July 14, 8.30 pm, Papillon

Until July 10, Fotopress ‘07 Mon-Fri, 10am to 9pm, Sala Ateneo, Santa Lucia de Tirajana Until July 10, Sixth Photographic Marathon Galería Marlaska, Alemania, 59, Las Palmas Until July 17, Caras, cuerpos y esferas (faces, bodies and spheres)

by Jeannie and Tony Van Rompaey Sala de Arte, Hotel Neptuno, Playa del Inglés Until September 13, Ouka Leele CAAM (Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno), Balconies 9-11-13, Las Palmas More info at www.caam.net Until October 10, Bamako 07 en la ciudad y más allá. Casa África, Las Palmas

July 8, 9 pm, Fra Fra Sound, Mayra Andrad (African night).

Plaza de Santa Ana, Las Palmas

OTHER ACTIVITIES

July 9, 9 pm, Chris Potter’s Underground, Viktoria Tolstoy.

Plaza de Santa Ana, Las Palmas

8.30 am to 2 pm, organised

by Ben Magec, Ecologists in Action, for children aged 6 to 12 years. Workshops on town vegetable gardens, making compost, recycling, cooking etc, as well as storytelling and parties.

Ben Magec head office, Paseo de Chil 13, Las Palmas. More information on 928 374 020.

Price: members 120 euros, nonmembers 150 euros.

July 10, 9 pm, Steve Lukather and Band, tour ‘Ever Changing Times’. Davíd Quevedo Trio.

Plaza de Santa Ana, Las Palmas July 11, 9 pm, Kind of Blue 50 and a special jam session in the Sala Quasquías, Teatro Cúyas July 12, 8 pm, The CTI All Stars, Auditorio Alfredo Kraus, Las Palmas More information on http://

www.canariasjazz.com

Casa de Carta

Jerry Goldsmith cycle, in original version.

July 7, 8.30 pm, Capricorn One

Plaza del Patriotismo, 1 38002 Santa Cruz Phone 922 471 000

38200 San Cristóbal de La Laguna Phone 922 315 265

CINEMA

July 11, 7.30 pm, Romería Virgen del Carmen, Arguineguin

www.canarynet.com

www.museosdetenerife. org C/ Vía Láctea, s/n

by Centro de Danza, Pabellon Municipal, Maspalomas

Summer Camp Until July 24,

SPORT & NATURE Golf:

THEATRE July 11, 14, 17, Tannhäuser, directed by Katharina Wagner.

Teatro Pérez Galdós July 10 to 19, XXII Festival del Sur, Encuentro Teatral Tres Continentes 2009. Agüímes.

More info www.festivaldelsur.

XI Circuito Canarias Golf, Maspalomas Golf, San Bartolomé de Tirajana July 4, VI Open H10 Playa Meloneras Palace July 11, Torneo Memorial Walter Sauermann July 18, VI Open Seaside Hotels

com

Trekking:

DANCE

July 4, Nighttime route through the Barranco del Juncal leaving at 4.30pm from the Casa del Deporte, Arucas. 14km.

July 4, 7 pm, End of course gala,

Difficulty: medium. Imperative that you take a torch or lantern, bathing costume and towel. 928 621754.

Local councils in various areas of the island organise guided treks and other open-air activities. For more information, call UPNature, Guanarteme 928 270084 or 928 473265, Arucas 928 621754, Maspalomas 928 764201, Tablero 928 140640, Mogán 928 158805, Aldea de San Nicolás de Tolentino 928.891.252 or www. alberguelaaldea.com, or Valleseco 928 618740.

Archaeology Guided visits to the principal digs in the island: Bentayga (Tejeda), Cenobio de Valerón (Guía) etc.

For more information 928 219 229.

MARKETS Arguineguín: Tuesday, Gáldar: Thursday, Mogán: Sunday, Puerto de Mogán: Friday, Telde: Saturday, Terór: Sunday, Vecindario: Monday and Wednesday – all 8am to 2pm. Playa del Inglés, every day except Sunday, 7.30 to 11.30pm. Rastro, Sunday 8am to 2pm, bus station, Las Palmas.

Tenerife FIESTAS Until July 5, Fiestas of San Pedro, El Sauzal July 12, Romería of San Benito, La Laguna. A very rural fiesta with a processions, fruit, flowers and livestock. Adorned balconies are judged for a competition.

MUSIC To July 12, IV edition, Los Caprichos Musicales de La Isla Baja (Musical Whims 2009): July 4, 9 pm, Piano and song concert by selected students from the third Musical Technique and Interpretation course. ExConvent of San Sebastián, Los Silos July 11, 9 pm, Piano recital by selected students of the first piano interpretation course. Municipal Auditorium, Garachico July 12, 12.30 pm, Tak-Nara, percussion group. Municipal Auditorium, Garachico

18th International Jazz Festival, Canarias Jazz y Más July 3, 12 noon to 2.30 pm, Jonathan Kreisberg Quartet.

Conservatorio Sup. de Música.

Santa Cruz. Masterclass July 3, 9 pm, Jonathan Kreisberg Quartet and René González Sextet. Plaza de Europa, Puerto de la Cruz.

July 4, 9 pm, James Taylor Quartet, ST Fusion. Puerto de la Cruz July 5, 9 pm, Mezzoforte, Diego Barber Quartet. Teatro Leal, La Laguna July 6, 9 pm, Christian McBride and Inside Straight, Okou. Teatro Leal, La Laguna July 7, 9 pm, Fra Fra Sound, Mayra Andrad (African night).

Plaza La Concepción, La Laguna July 8, 9 pm, Chris Potter’s Underground, Viktoria Tolstoy.

Casa de la Pólvora, Santa Cruz July 9, 9 pm, Steve Lukather and Band, tour ‘Ever Changing Times’. Martín Leiton, Medium.

Casa de la Pólvora, Santa Cruz July 10, 9 pm, Kind of Blue 50 and a special jam session in the Sala La Puerta Verde, Auditorium, Santa Cruz

July 14, Fiestas del Gran Poder and Virgen del Carmen, Puerto de la Cruz. Street processions and embarcation of the statues on fishing boats. Much food, drink, singing, dancing and fireworks

July 11, 9 pm, The CTI All Stars, Auditorium, Santa Cruz More information on http://

July 19, Fiestas del Carmen, Santa Cruz and many other locations around the island

July 4 and 5, 11 am to 8 pm, ExpoSaldoAdeje 2009, Centro de Desarollo Turistico, Avenida de los Océanos, El Galeón. Great for bargain hunters!

CONCERTS July 6, 9 pm, The Pretenders.

Auditorio de Tenerife, Santa Cruz. Tickets 30 and 35 euros from www.generaltickets.com July 10, 10 pm, Macaco. Parking area, Parque Marítimo, Santa Cruz. 20 euros July 15, 9 pm, La Oreja de Van Gogh. Valverde, El Hierro July 17, Carlos Baute. Pabellon, Valverde, El Hierro. Tickets from the office of the Bajada de la Virgen July 19, Carlos Baute, port precinct, Santa Cruz de La Palma.

www.canariasjazz.com

OTHER EVENTS

July 4, 7.15 pm, Lions Club International Santiago del Teide President’s Night. Dinner, cabaret, dancing and lots of fun at El Marques, Puerto de Santiago.

Tickets 30 euros per person from Mary at MDI Alcalá, reception at El Marques, any Lions member, or call 678 472683 or 627 386648

Eólica, concert July 18, combining 40 acts with environmental awareness at ITER, Granadilla. Tickets from 3 euros for family afternoon to 25 euros (or 18 euros in advance) for full

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day and night tickets, from Base Deportes Salud, El Corte Inglés, and Carrefour shopping centres or www.ticketmaster.com.

Buses direct from Los Cristianos and Santa Cruz. More information in our Spin section on page 24.

EXHIBITIONS Civic Centre, Cabo Blanco.

Until July 10, Recortes de Africa

by Juan José Ramos and Oliver Yanes.

Cultural Centre,Parque de la Reina. Until July 9, Paintings collection Cultural Centre, Valle San Lorenzo. Until July 10, Paintings by Leticia Figueroa and Graciela Chiappero Ex-Franciscan Convent, Granadilla. Until July 20, Larga espera hasta el retorno. ONG Entreculturas Restaurante Kafka, Calle Cruz Verde, Puerto de la Cruz July 5 to August 2, Exhibition of paintings by Veerle Lies Walleghem. Thurs to Tues 1pm to 3.30pm and 6.30pm to 10.30pm

SPORT & NATURE Yoga Course July 15 to 19, Course on Kundalini yoga at the Gran Hotel Bahia del Duque given by the professor and director of the company Golden Temple.

The course will concentrate on profound relaxation and meditation, postures and breathing techniques to revitalise the body and mind, combat emotional and professional stress, and improve concentration. Morning classes are followed by free time when participants can enjoy the facilities and activities offered by the hotel, including the new Spa. For more information and reservations, call Diego Román on 627 520062

Tourist routes 922 127 938 Every Tuesday: Montes del Agua 1st Saturday of each month: Teide National Park 2nd Saturday: Masca ravine 3rd Saturday: Volcanic tube at Cueva de San Marcos 4th Saturday: Kayak trip off Los

Gigantes cliffs, Punta de Teno

Kayak routes

GASTRONOMY

Tours by kayak for all abilities which may be combined with snorkelling, hiking, climbing or potholing. From mid-July until end-September, hourly kayak sea trips of 45 minutes between 12 noon and 6pm from Punta de Teno. No booking needed.

Special summer price 10 euros per person or buy a season ticket. More info on 922 127 938 or

K9 and Friends of the Animals

www.elcardon.com Surfing Learn surfing and body boarding.

North: Escuela de Surf y Body Board OAD La Laguna, for those aged 12 years and over. More information on 922 256 244 or wwwoadlaguna.com South: Escuela Oficial de la Federación Canaria de Surf K16 (Playa de las Américas). Groups or individual training for those aged seven years or over. More information on 922 798 480 or

la Estancia R ES TAU R A N T E

La Estancia Restaurant, Chayofa, Arona July 5 French Wine Tasting July 14 French National Day Party July 21 Belgian National Day Party

www.k16surf.com Canarian Bodyboard Challenge,

Calle Armiche, 1, Urbanización Las Águilas del Teide, Chayofa 922 729 359 · www.laestancia.com

July 11 to August 30, Caleta de Adeje. More info on 922 781808 or www.adejoven.es

Hiking: Los Silos Nature: July 19, Cumbres de Bolico.

Difficulty: medium. Information and reservations on 922 841 086.

Discover Arona. More information about trekking routes. 922 725 180 or www.arona.org All year round, guided walks for groups through the most emblematic buildings of the lovely northern town of Los Silos.

Contact Oscar in their information office on 922 841 086.

Barranco del Infierno (Adeje): Mondays to Sundays from 8.30 am till 5.30 pm. No access allowed after 4 pm. Price: 3 euros.

Max. 200 people a day. Free entrance on Sundays. Information and reservations on 922 782 885.

Guided trails for the general public: The National Park’s interpretation service offers guided tours free of charge. You need to book in advance with the National Park Office (Tel. 922 290 129/922 290 183).

MISCELLANEOUS La Baranda Wine Museum A renovated 17th century Canary Island hacienda used by the Island Cabildo to promote local quality wines. Autopista Gral. del Norte. Km 21, (El Sauzal exit), 38360 El Sauzal, Tel.: 922 572 535 Tuesday to Saturday from 11 am to 8 pm. Wine tasting and shop until 10 pm, Sunday and Bank Holidays from 11 am to 6 pm, closed Monday.

Castles Tours: Tenerife History Museum offers guided tours around the island’s castles for schools and groups. More information on 922 825 949

Masonic Meetings in the south of Tenerife. Visitors always welcome. Tenerife Craft, Chapter, Mark. For more information phone 922 794 502 or 922 732 386.

Ciudadanos Europeos (European Citizens Group). For more information contact the Secretary, Chris Stanyer on 922

THE MARKETS TENERIFE

751507 or the President, Harry Davies, on 922 781905. e-mail: ceten@fsmail.net

From 5th July, K9 car boot sales will be held on the first Sunday of every month from 8am to 12 noon at Happy Days, Costa del Silencio. Nearly new sales are held on the second Saturday of every month outside Shimmers Bar, Callao Salvaje from 10am to 1pm. K9 also have a stall on the Playa San Juan market every Wednesday and at Alcalá every Sunday, from 10am to 2pm.

The Friends of the Animals car boot sale is held on the last Sunday of every month in the Los Gigantes Sports Centre from 9am to 12 noon. Goods are desperately needed for these events which are great for bargains and a good rummage. For more information call the kennels on 667 638468 or Pat the Cat on 608 121081.

English Library Calle Irlanda, Parque Taoro, Puerto de la Cruz: Monday 3pm to 5.30pm, Wednesday 10am to 12 noon, Friday from 4pm to 6pm and Saturday 11am to 1pm.

Information: Julia Gaskell 922 37 25 79

Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meetings in the South: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday at 5.45pm, Friday at 11.45am. 1st Floor Apolo Centre, Los Cristianos (next to bus terminal). For more information call 630 478 448 (24 hrs).

MARKETS Tuesday Los Abrigos 5pm to 9pm Wednesday Playa San Juan 9am to 2pm Thursday Costa Adeje 9am to 2pm Friday Golf del Sur 9am to 2pm San Isidro 5pm to 9pm Saturday Costa Adeje 9am to 2pm Saturday El Médano 9am to 2pm Sunday Los Cristianos 9am to 2pm Alcalá 9am to 2pm Puerto de la Cruz 9am to 2pm

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F FUERTEVENTURA COSTA CALMA · Wednesdays & Sundays · 10am-3pm MORRO JABLE · Tuesdays & Thursdays · 9am-2pm CALETA DE FUSTE · Saturdays - 10am-2pm

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Fancy a stall? Call 922 713 246 or 922 752 300 now!

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Church Services: Living Spring Pentecostal Church Guaza Calle Almorejo 2, beside the Guaza sports complex.

Rev. and Pastor (Mrs) Nelson Olajide Tel: 609 505 915. livingspring75@hotmail.com

The Anglican Parish of All Saints Puerto de la Cruz Sunday services 9.30am and 11am 29 Carretera Taoro. Parish Priest: David Jenkins. Tel: 922 384 038 www.allsaintstenerife.com

Saint Francis Anglican Chaplaincy Tenerife South Chaplain Fr. Keith Gordon, phone 679660277 or 922742045

Christian Fellowship Los Cristianos 1st floor of Apolo Shopping Centre Pastor Adrian McBride.

Tel: 922 790 007.

Costa del Silencio Coral Mar. Sunday Services 11am-6pm. Mothers & Toddlers group Tue.10.30 to 12 noon.

Counselling and info: Pastor Bill Jeffrey Tel: 617291751. www. silenciochurch.com

Calvary Assembly International Church Buzanada Sunday 11.00am, Wednesday 7.30pm Nursery is provided during the Sunday morning service as well as Sunday School for children under 12.

For more information, for counselling, or for information about the International Bible Institute, call: Missionary / Pastor Mark G. Baumgartner 628 107 316.

Catholic Mass Puerto de la Cruz International service Sundays (almost always in English) in the Nuestra Señora de la Peña de Francia parish church Los Gigantes Daily mass in English in the Espíritu Santo church

St. Sebastian’s Inclusive Church Mogán, Gran Canaria Sundays 7pm at Cordial Mogán Playa Chapel

Canarian C-Days www.diasc.com/diasc Travel between the islands to cultural events is 50 per cent cheaper on certain days and for selected events with Fred Olsen, Islas Airways and Binter.

Discounts on hotels and car hire are also available.

You will need to book by telephone 902 292 999, Monday to Friday from 9am to 2pm or via the web Make sure you know the full price of the ticket (including Canarian residents’ reduction) to ensure you receive the full discount.

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USEFUL INFORMATION

Tourist Info points

Tenerife North Airport Tel: 922 635192 Open Mon-Fri 8am-9pm Weekends 9am-5pm Puerto de la Cruz Casa de la Aduana C/Las Lonjas s/n Tel: 922 38 60 00 Open Mon-Fri 9am-8pm Weekends 9am-5pm

La Palma Tenerife

South Costa Adeje Open: Mon-Sun 10am-5pm Playa de Troya: Avda Rafael Puig 1 Playa Fañabé: Avda Litoral Arona Open Mon-Fri 9am-9pm Sat 9am-3.30pm Playa de las Américas: CC City Center Tel: 922 797 668 Playa de Las Vistas: Paseo Marítimo s/n Tel: 922 787 011

Santa Cruz de La Palma C/O’Daly, 22 Tel: 922 412106

La Gomera San Sebastián C/Del Medio, 20 Tel: 922 141512 Valle Gran Rey Tel: 922 805458 Hermigua Tel: 922 144101

El Hierro Valverde Tel: 922 550302

Gran Canaria

Los Cristianos: Cultural Centre Tel: 922 757 137

Las Palmas Parque Santa Catalina Tel: 928 219600

Las Galletas: Paseo Maritimo Dionisio Gonzalez Delgado Tel: 922 730 133 Mon-Fri 9am-9pm

Playa del Inglés Avda de España Tel: 928 771550

Golf del Sur: Avda Galván Bello s/n Tel: 922 73 86 64 Open Mon-Fri 9am11.30am and 12 noon to 5.30pm Sat 9.30am-1.30pm Santiago del Teide CC Seguro el Sol (in front of Playa de la Arena)

c/ Manuel Ravelo, 20, Local 35 Tel: 922 86 03 48 Open Mon-Fri 9.30am3.30pm Sat 9.30am-12.30pm

Lanzarote Arrecife Parque Municipal s/n Tel: 928 801517 Puerto del Carmen Avda de las Playas Tel: 928 515337

Fuerteventura Puerto del Rosario Avda 1 de Mayo, 33 Tel: 928 851024

Granadilla de Abona Tenerife South Airport (arrivals)

Tel: 922 39 20 37 Open Mon-Fri 9am-9pm Sat 9am-1pm El Médano Plaza de los Principes de España Tel: 922 176002 Open Mon-Fri 9am-3pm (winter) 9am-2pm (summer) Sat 9am-1pm

www.webtenerifeuk.co.uk

La Laguna C/ Carrera, 7º (Casa Alvarado Bracamonte) Tel. 922 631 194 Open Mon-Fri 9am-5pm Weekends 9am-3pm

hello Infoturismo Tenerife

902 00 31 21

Airports

Ireland

902 404704

Tenerife South 922 759200 Tenerife North 922 635635 La Palma 922 426100 La Gomera 902 404 704 El Hierro 922 553700 Gran Canaria 928 579000 Lanzarote 928 846000 Fuerteventura 928 860500 Flight information:

Honorary Consul of Ireland.

León y Castillo 195, 1st Floor on right, 35004 Las Palmas.

Tel: +34 928 29 77 28 Fax: +34 928 29 77 28 consuladoirlanda@step.es

www.aena.es

United Kingdom

Maritime Rescue & Safety

A consular officer makes routine visits to the islands and is available to meet anyone who wishes to call for assistance and advice.

Fuerteventura. The consular officer will be available in Hotel Atlantis Palace, Corralejo.

Lanzarote. The consular officer will be available during the day in the lounge of Hotel Los Fariones in Puerto del Carmen.

Hononary Consul for Lanzarote, Susan Thain, will also be available to offer consular assistance to British Nationals.

Please call the Consulate in Gran Canaria (+34) 928 26 25 08 for information and appointments.

Santa Cruz Las Palmas

900 202202 928 467757

Emergency

DIAL 112 Emergency Single emergency line

080 092 091 062 016

FIRE BRIGADE LOCAL POLICE NATIONAL POLICE GUARDIA CIVIL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

Missing Children> 116000

Consulates TENERIFE United Kingdom British Consulate Plaza Weyler, No. 8, 1st Floor - 38003 Santa Cruz de Tenerife Office Hours: Mon- Fri 8:30am to 1:30pm Tel.: +34 922 28 68 63 Fax: +34 922 28 99 03 tenerife.enquiries@fco.gov.uk www.ukinspain.com 24-Hour Emergency Service Out of office hours the Consulate telephone number (+34 922 28 68 63) provides details of how to contact a duty officer in an emergency.

www.aytolalaguna.com/ ayto/

North Santa Cruz Plaza de España Tel: 922 289394 Fax: 922 284965 Open: Mon-Fri 9am-6pm Sat 9am-1pm (to 5pm and 12 noon respectively, July, Aug & Sept) Free city guides Mon-Sat from the kiosk at 11am

Useful Numbers

24-Hour Emergency Service Out of office hours the Consulate telephone number (+34 928 262 508) provides details of how to contact a duty officer in an emergency.

www.grancanaria.com

Post Office Prices

Ireland

Honorary Consul of Ireland Calle de Castillo 8, 4th Floor 38002 Santa Cruz Tel: +34 922 245 671 922 245 035 Fax: +34 922 249 957 jimken@eresmas.com

EU 0.20 gr.

Normal 0.62 € / Urg. 2.76 € Large 1.07 € / Urg. 3.58 € 21-50 gr.

Normal 1.29 € / Urg. 3.79 €

Rest of World 0.20 gr.

Normal 0.78 € / Urg. 3.10 € Large 1.38 € / Urg. 3.90 € 21-50 gr.

Normal 1.66 € / Urg. 4.15 €

Ireland

Honorary Vice Consul of Ireland C/Ginés de Castro Alvarez 12, 3B,/ 35500 Arrecife, Lanzarote Tel: +34 928 815262 Fax: +34 928 802200

Honorary Consul of India Villalba Hervas 15, 1st Floor PO Box 336, 38002 Santa Cruz de Tenerife Office Hours: Mon- Fri 9:30am to 2pm Tel: +34 922 24 35 03 922 24 14 16 Fax: +34 922 28 97 55. gopemahtani@wanadoo.es

United Kingdom

British Consulate Calle Luís Morote 6, 3rd Floor-E-35007 Las Palmas.

Office Hours: Mon- Fri 8:30am to 1:30pm Tel.: + 34 928 262 508 Fax: + 34 928 267 774 laspalmas.consulate@fco.gov.uk www.ukinspain.com This office also covers Fuerteventura and Lanzarote (please check website for dates of consular visits and how to arrange appointments).

Cero Zero Una/uno One (f/m) Dos Two Tres Three Cuatro Four Cinco Five Seis Six Siete Seven Ocho Eight Nueve Nine Diez Ten Once Eleven Doce Twelve Trece Thirteen Catorce Fourteen Quince Fifteen Dieciséis Sixteen

Lost or stolen

info: 902 456 500 Acciona www.trasmediterranea.es info: 902 454 645

Air-transport Binter Canarias www.bintercanarias.com info: 902 391 392 Islas Airways www.islasairways.com info: 902 477 478

Good Luck Why not have a flutter on one of Spain’s popular lotteries? Look out for the ONCE kiosks, or the Loterías y Apuestas del Estado shops, and good luck!.

Primitiva

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Expert Advice

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t is better to bring a little local currency and the rest in traveller’s cheques.

Make sure you have a copy of the number of your cheques and your credit card numbers and expiry dates. The list should be kept separate from your cards and cheques and it is best to leave a copy with a third party or filed in your email account.

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f you are staying in a hotel, try to make sure that credit cards and important documents such as your return tickets and passports are kept in a safe, only take the bare minimum with you when you leave your apartment or hotel. If you need to carry a lot of cash spread it between you and your partner or the members of your group. Only have a small amount of cash in your wallet which should be in an inside pocket. Carry the rest in a secure money

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Maritime Compared with many other countries, the Fred Olsen Islands thankfully have www.fredolsen.es very little theft, but info: 902 100 107 there are bad apples Naviera Armas everywhere. www.naviera-armas.es

Conversion Chart GRAN CANARIA

Numbers Números

handbag/ Island Transport wallet

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Spain & Canary Islands 0.20 gr.

Normal 0.32 € / Urg. 2.38 € Large 0.39 € / Urg. 2.46 € 21-50 gr.

Normal 0.43 € / Urg. 2.55 €

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belt. Only take one credit card out with you at a time. Do not leave valuables on table tops in bars or restaurants; do not hang bags on the backs of chairs. Handbags are best carried crosswise across the body.

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o not leave valuables on the beach while you go for a dip. Cover your hand if you use a cash machine, do not leave your PIN number anywhere near your credit card and don’t let your card out of your sight when paying in any establishment.

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f you do have the bad luck to lose your wallet, purse or handbag, cancel your credit cards and traveller’s cheques immediately. The emergency number necessary to do this is normally on the card you have had stolen, so either make a note of it beforehand or check the British Embassy in Madrid’s website where all bank emergency numbers are listed, ukinspain.fco.gov.uk.

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ake a list of everything that has gone missing and report the loss or theft at the local police, national police or civil guard station.

Be aware that they crack down heavily on false claims and are extremely good at sniffing them out.

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ou will have to have the number on the crime report if you want to claim off your insurance. Embassy representatives cannot give you money they can only contact your family or friends so that you can have some sent out

by Western Union.

Canary Islands Lanzarote Tenerife

Sta.Cruz Las Palmas

Gomera Hierro

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Christian doubts Dear Editor

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s I travelled from village to village over the last few weeks I have been amazed at the amount of cash spent on First Communions.

There are lavish dresses and suits, more suitable to a wedding than the entr y into the house of the Lord, vast banquets, photos and souvenirs for guests and, what seems most important to the children, huge presents or sums of money.

What happened to the girls all dressed as nuns and the boys as simple sailors? When did such an important event in a person’s religious life become yet another moneymaker and opportunity for one-upmanship? Why do we allow ourselves to be conned into spending so much money and why don’t the churches do something to stop it?

Some churches don’t allow parents to take photographs and insist that only the ‘official’ photographer is used, meaning that parents have to pay more of course and

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the church gets a nice little earner from the photography studio. The tale of Christ and the money lenders comes to mind.

If the only reason children have a First Communion is for the gifts, at least be honest. Give them a party with presents and let them choose later on if they want to take First Communion - you’ll save a lot of money.

But please, don’t continue to cheapen such an important ceremony with flashy capitalist practices.

Barbra Laza Tegueste

Endesa rip off Dear Editor

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don’t know if it is just me suf fering at the hands of the electricity company Endesa or if it is widespread in the Canar y Islands.

Since Endesa started billing me monthly I appear to have an expensive estimated bill one month and then the following month have a bill for

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much less when my electric meter has been read.

My old bi-monthly bills used to come to between 50 and 55 euros depending upon the time scale. Sometimes the bill was seven week, sometimes as much as nine weeks. But I knew how much to budget for. But all this has changed with the monthly bills. In May I received a bill for 39.48 euros. I nearly fainted at first as I did not believe I had used any more electricity then normal. All became clear when I received June’s bill for just 15.09 euros.

When I looked at the two bills I realised that the May bill had been estimated, while the meter at my property had been read for the June bill.

If I know that my consumption of electricity comes to between 50 and 55 euros bi-monthly, why doesn’t Endesa? It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to calculate that my monthly bill should be between 25 and 27.50 euros. If this is commonplace, then I can only assume that Endesa are making a lot of interest on a monthly basis with the institution that they bank with.

In my opinion it is a total rip off and they should be stopped immediately. In these hard times I can understand that the company wants its

money on a monthly basis, but they really need to modify their estimations and make them fairer.

Sally Smith Arico

Education

By Daniela Herzberg & Roger Keller daniela@5-elementos.com / Tel. +34 650 830 506 / www.5-elementos.com

Daniela Herzberg & Roger Keller are based in the southwest of Tenerife. They both are certified Feng Shui and Chinese Astrology consultants and Cosmic Healers and work and teach in Tenerife and Germany. Their comprehensive knowledge about Feng Shui, Chinese Astrology and the five elements is a result of their work with Derek Walters, one of the most respected Feng Shui masters in the world.

They have published several books about Chinese Astrology and how to increase your health and vitality with the five elements, with recipes from all over the world.

Dear Editor Rat (1936, 1948, 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996, 2008)

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y grandson is eight years old and has had five teachers during this school year.

The last two weeks of term, the children did practically no work. It was all parties and the text books we had to buy were not even half finished.

It’s no wonder that we are at the top of the table in Europe for kids leaving school without qualifications.

If they would give the teachers a proper contract instead of per term or per school year, it might cost them a bit more, but it would make it worth their while moving into the district, really getting to know the children and giving them a stable eduation.

Disguster (name and address with editor) Buenavista del Norte

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Don’t let difficult circumstances prevent you from continuing with your plans. The problems are only temporary and there is no reason to give up.

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Tiger (1926, 1938, 1950, 1962, 1974, 1986, 1998) Tigers may go hunting now to find a new love.

Make sure that you take your new partner seriously – especially if you want this relationship to last.

Rabbit (1927, 1939, 1951, 1963, 1975, 1987, 1999) Good teamwork is the key to success now. Look out for competent partners to optimise your work, and share your knowledge if your colleagues ask for it.

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Snake (1929, 1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001) It’s quite a good time to make a decision about your financial situation. Don’t take too many risks when you decide to invest. Stay on the safe side.

Horse (1930, 1942, 1954, 1966, 1978, 1990, 2002) The atmosphere may be really fiery now and you have to be careful not to get burned. Take care of your health, especially if you tend to have problems with your circulation.

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If you are not the winner this time, take it easy.

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Rooster (1933, 1945, 1957, 1969, 1981, 1993, 2005) If you enjoy competition, take your chance now. Don’t take the race too seriously though – otherwise you may get annoyed.

Dog (1934, 1946, 1958, 1970, 1982, 1994, 2006) Show your ambitions if they don’t damage other people’s interests. Look for competent help to take your plans to the next stage.

Pig (1935, 1947, 1959, 1971, 1983, 1995, 2007) Don’t let your home commitments prevent you from enjoying some leisure time. If you aren’t able to keep the balance between duty and fun, you will feel stressed.

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Beauty Part II

LIVING & LIFESTYLE

New in Parque Santiago III

Healing fragrances

By Nicola Roberts Just like smelling salts, the smell is picked up by sensory cells in the nasal passage, and the aroma given off by the oils has a direct effect on the part of the brain which governs emotions. The brain is therefore stimulated to respond to the mood provoked by the smell of the oil. When prepared as an aromatherapy oil and applied to the skin, essential oils are absorbed into the bloodstream where they will help stimulate the various systems of the body.

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he general public should be aware of the importance of using good quality oils, there are many, many products on the market, some of which are of a dubious mix.

Many suppliers are jumping on the bandwagon and sell low quality cheap oils; they rely on the undiscerning, uneducated customer.

For example it is reasonable to always pay at least £5.00 for 10ml of lavender oil.

Essential oils are aromatic essences extracted from plants, flowers, trees, fruit, bark, grasses and seeds and all have their own distinctive therapeutic properties. Around 150 essential oils have been extracted, each with its own unique scent and healing property, all are valuable as antiseptics. Some have particular properties which make them anti-viral, antiinflammatory, pain reliev-

ing, anti-depressant and antiseptic, others are stimulating, relaxing, aid digestion or have diuretic properties. These pure oils are usually extracted by steam distillation.

The sources of oils can be commonplace or rare and exquisite and this is usually reflected in the price of the oil. For example Jasmine which is one of the most expensive oils, requires four million Jasmine flowers to make one kilogram of oil and these can only be harvested by hand during the afternoon and early evening! It takes 100kg of lavender to yield 3kg of oil so obviously lavender is fairly cheap. It is actually expected that soon there will be a world shortage of many organic essential oils, especially Lavender. Demand is simply outstripping supply and the demand for essential oils is growing twice as fast as the supply.

Essential oils enter the body in two ways: by inhalation and through absorption.

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Inhalations Direct inhalations – a couple of drops of a relaxing oil on your pillow, or a few drops of decongesting oils to a handkerchief can be both directly inhaled.

Steam inhalations – three or four drops of oil to a bowl of hot water helps clear congestion or catarrh.

Eucalyptus, pine, lavender, black pepper or peppermint oils are helpful for coughs, colds, sinus problems and headaches.

Nicola Rober ts is the owner of Bellissima Hair and Beauty in Los Gigantes and San Eugenio Alto. For information or appointments please call 922 867 343 or 922 719 355.

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placed in the centre of the shell and it starts to heat up from within.

Accor ding to those who have tried it, this is a stress-beating, intense and comforting massage. The therapists work from the arms to the stomach, legs, shoulder, neck and back.

The continual heat allows deep muscle work, allowing tension to be released and any soreness calmed.

Shell massage treatments are already available at leading spas in the UK.

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Pets corner

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COPING WITH THE HEAT

Pets Portrait

Nano

Cool pets THEY MAY NOT COMPLAIN BUT YOUR ANIMALS FEEL THE HEAT TOO. A rise in temperature can make us feel uncomfortable, but your pet has a worse time of it.

Blissful life

Found half dead from hunger and with a broken hip caused by a kick, Nano was rescued and is now living in cat bliss with Julia the dog and his humans in Los Abrigos.

Pets Dinner Tenerife Forum

Dingo dinners Tenerife’s various dog rescue centres all do an important job, and without much help from the authorities they mainly rely on the public’s generosity.

Dogs and cats for example have a higher body temperature than humans to start with and hot weather affects them badly. Neither dogs nor cats have many sweat glands so their only way to lower body heat is panting. Older and larger animals and dogs with short flat noses like boxers have greater difficulties than the rest.

However, you can help your pet get through and even to enjoy the summer by following a few simple rules.

Don’t take your animals for a walk during the hottest period of the day, between noon and 5.00 pm. If they need to go out to relieve themselves, a quick trip is enough, they shouldn’t be encouraged to run or play with a ball for example and if they are able to take a dip during the walk, all the better.

Try and make sure that your pets’ bed is in the shade and close to fresh air during the

Help your pet to a cool summer

night, near an open window for example.

Change the water more frequently and tr y adding ice cubes to keep it cool and above all, make sure that it is clean, because heat can help breed infections.

Pet allergies, particularly skin allergies will increase in the warm weather and itch more. You may need to increase the use of anti allergy shampoos in the hot

months or change the brand of food you normally use for a specific type which helps avoid allergies.

Kennel cough also increases in the summer. If you are taking your pet to a kennels or cattery, make sure they are protected with the appropriate vaccine. Finally, your animal may not love you too much when you bath him or her, but they’ll feel much better after a refreshing bath

and a good brushing to thin out the excess hair. It is also very important to keep woolly coated or long haired breeds well clipped unless they are permanently in temperature controlled environments. An Old English Sheepdog with a long haired show clip in this climate is like asking a person to lie on the beach in thermal under wear, full woollens and a mink coat – not only ridiculous, but cruel.

LIVE ARICO NEWS

Phil with a few of the Dingo dogs

Thanks to recent donations of 80 kilos of food by sympathetic members of the Tenerife Forum, the pooches at the Dingo Dogs sanctuary in Guía de Isora won’t be going hungry for a couple of days.

Phil Nelson runs Dingo Dogs with the help of his hardworking volunteers Jesse Garon, who is the Vice President, and Leigh. Phil dedicates all his time to rescuing and looking after dogs - you may well come across him collecting abandoned dogs around the Los Cristianos/Playa de Las Américas area.

Apart from donations, Dingo Dogs also desperately need help with constructing kennels - so any builders, carpenters etc who can spare some time please give Phil a ring on 690 803 989.

They have a video on You Tube ( http://www. youtube.com/watch?v=zFUwIF_r4yo ) and donations can be made via their website: http://www.dingodogstenerife.com.

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Amongst the many dogs currently at Live Arico, they have a pedigree Dalmatian, and puppies of all shapes, sizes and colours. There is also a beautiful Pyrenean mountain dog for anyone looking for a huge canine friend.

Unfortunately, they tell us that they really cannot take another dog or cat now until land and more space is found. They are building a re-homing page onto their website (www.livearico.org) which will include photos and details of unwanted animals.

Thanks to...

Chris Fleury and Jake Bennett who walked from Los Cristianos to Mount Teide for the animal charity!

Tramps nightclub manager Chris, and life long Tinerfiño Jake, both have Live Arico rescue dogs and wanted to give something back. The walk took three days and both were exhausted when they reached their destination. At the time of writing

Photo: Nikki Attree

Looking for love?

Chris and Jake with Eugenio

sponsorship money was still being collected in, but somewhere in the region of €600 was raised. Well done.

Thanks too to all involved at the Alternative Therapies Day at Winter Gardens Spa and Gym on Saturday 13th June, where €265 was raised - Steve and Elaine from Antiquities for the loan of the screens, Winter Gardens for letting us have the event there and their helpful maintenance staff, Sally and Linda of Winter Gardens Spa and gym, Anne, Regine and Nigel the therapists for giv-

ing up their time, Dominique and Camilla, and entertainers Suzy Q, Mel Faulkner, Ady Evans and Jack Cantrell for finishing off the event with some music.

only €6.50 per person, and Charlie Karlsen, Jesse Garon, Live Arico’s Adrian and compere Ash will be the entertainment. Proceeds will be split between the horse and the refuge’s many dogs.

On Saturday the 18th July there will be a benefit at the Starlight Bar, Costa de Silencio with Suzy Q and guests.

Lots more coming up during the summer months, including a bowling tournament, dog show, and much more.

For any questions about the shop, the dogs, Live Arico or if you like to make a donation and need somebody to pick it up, call Nicole at 64 71 76 341.

Up and coming events

General numbers:

On Thursday the 9th July Val Karlsen is organising another benefit night to raise money for the Live Arico rescue horse, at Club Olympus, Garden City, San Eugenio.

Owners Denise and Mark will be putting on a barbecue at

Eugenio 649 001907 (Please call if you find a dog abandoned or in distress) Suzy Q 629 388102 (Call regarding fund raising, prize donations etc) Nicole 647 176341 (Call regarding shop enquiries)

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MAKING THE MOST OF SEASONAL FOOD

Nestlé

Win a home

NICE ICE Win a new home or a thousand euros to spend in your favourite store with Nestlé ice-creams up to August 16.

Which are the winning brands of ice cream and where the randomly assigned code is depends on where you buy your icecream. If you buy your icecream in the street, look out for Maxibon, Nestlé, Nestlé Gold and Extreme.

Each wrapping has a code inside. Send an SMS with the word PISO followed by a space and the code to 5626, for example PISO 1X2345J890. Or enter into the website, www. pisobuscadueño.com, and key in the details there.

If you buy your icecream in the supermarket, look out for the brands Maxibon, Nestlé Gold, Nestlé, Extreme, Nestlés sin azúcares añadidos, La Lechera, Pirulo, Mikolápiz, Nestlé Etiqueta Negra and Fantasmikos. Look for the four last numbers in the barcode on the wrapping

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and send the information via the web, by SMS to the same number as above with the message PISO and a space followed by the four numbers or telephone 902882415.

Make sure you keep your receipt. If you buy your treat in a specialist heladería (ice-cream parlour), a bar or a restaurant you should be looking for Nestlé and La Lechera brands. When you ask for your ice-cream you will be given a surprise envelope with your code. You can enter it into the web, send an SMS with the word PISO, a space and your code, or telephone the above number. The winning ticket for a maximum of 300,000 euros to buy yourself a home in Spain, wherever you want will be drawn on September 1st, but meanwhile there are daily prizes of 1,000 euros in a voucher to be spent at your choice of El Corte Inglés, Fnac, Ikea and Zara Home.

Sin Burbujas

No gas

NEW FANTA If you like the taste of Fanta but don’t care to fill yourself with gas, their new product, Fanta Still, is for you.

Already available and in great demand in the UK and France, Fanta sin burbujas (Fanta without bubbles) will soon be on offer in Spain. It is expected that the sales of Fanta will increase 10 per cent with this new format which they believe will be very popular in the still drink market. Curiously Fanta was invented in Germany after the Second World War when some of the ingredients for CocaCola were unavailable because of the conflict so the Coca-Cola operatives invented the blend of flavours with an orange overtone and a touch of lemon.

Good Origin

Sara Lee

GOOD COFFEE Marcilla Coffee Systems, a subdivision of the multinational Sara Lee food group now offers a fair trade ecologically sustainable coffee under the brand Good Origin.

The fair treatment of the workers involved and the sustainability of the farming method is confirmed by the non-profit making UTZ certified organisation. The company has committed itself to change all of their production to sustainable coffee within 10 years.

Rooting for food PAPAS ESCABECHADAS Ingredients

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Canarian staple, the humble potato has two or three crops a year here and the latest is now in the shops.

The potato originated thousands of years ago in the high plains of Peru, Bolivia, Colombia and Chile and some experts also source them from the island of Chiloe in the south of Chile. It would seem that they were first brought to the Islands with the discover y of America, hardly surprising as the Canaries were an obligatory stopover for those voyagers between the old and new world.

The Venezuelan Arturo Uslar Pietri apparently related that the original settlers complained how

• One kilo potatoes • One large onion • Two cloves of garlic • Ten cloves • One heaped teaspoon of pimentón • Two bay leaves • 250ml glass white wine • One glass wine vinegar • One glass water • Flour • One beaten egg • Sunflower oil for frying

things were so bad there, they were reduced to eating roots. They soon discovered that those same roots were delicious. There is documentar y evidence to show that in 1567 passing ships brought cargos of tubers to the Islands. A wide range of potatoes acclimatised in the Islands and grew vigorously, many were given special names; papas azucenas, azucena negra, bonitas, colorados, negras etc. The latter including the contemporary variety negra oro are the most expensive potatoes in the world.

A evolutional of fshoot of an original tuber from the Columbian Andes or possibly Per u, the variety adapted particu-

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larly well to the volcanic soil in Tenerife and has acquired characteristics and flavours here that have given it the status of a high class gastronomical product. Look for this and other varieties in the mercadillos de agricultor, or farmers’ markets, it has a bluish black skin and a golden interior like the yolk of a hard boiled egg. Our recipe this edition would have been a favourite with Peter Piper, he of pickled pepper fame.

There are many dishes in Spain which include a pickled pepper or escabeche sauce. They can be prepared in advance and are enhanced by being left a few hours or days to mature.

Preparation 1. Squeeze the garlic and finely chop the onion.

2. Sauté and add cloves, pimentón and bay leaves, cook for two minutes and add liquids.

3. Bring to boil and remove from heat.

4. Boil the potatoes with their skins on over a low heat.

5. When cold peel and cut into chunks.

6. Dip into flour then egg and fry until golden.

7. Place on a dish and pour the sauce over them.

8. Serve as an accompaniment to meat, fish or vegetable dishes or as original mini kebab tapas spiked onto toothpicks.

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Taking a look at Spanish cheeses

FoodIDEAS

Cooking with cheese A SERIES OF RECIPES CREATED BY THE BEST OF TODAY’S SPANISH CHEFS Ingredients: • 2 loins with skin from a suckling pig • 1 bay leaf • Ground pepper • Salt • 2 garlic cloves • 1 onion • 7oz Torta de la Serena (sheep’s milk cheese) • 2 parchment paper sheets • 4 shallots • a handful of wild asparagus • 1.75oz butter • Tarragon • 0.87oz flour • 2 limes • Syrup • Olive oil

Piglet crunch and Torta de la Serena on top of wild asparagus sauce and lemon juice

By Fernando and Ainhoa Bárcena (Aldebarán, Badajoz)

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Preparation: 1. Put the two pork loins into iced water for one hour to bleed. Boil them with thyme, black pepper, salt, onion and garlic. Once cooked, let them cool and bone them, but be careful not to rip the skin.

2.Then place on the parchment paper and bake at 194 degrees for one hour.

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3. Blanch the wild asparagus.

4. Toss chopped shallots in butter; add asparagus and a bit of flour. Wet the mixture with asparagus water and blend through a sieve.

Peel the limes and chop skin finely. Simmer it in syrup by adding the juice from the limes.

5. Cut the pork into squares or triangles and brown in a non-stick pan with a few drops of oil 6. On a tray, place one layer of pork, one

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Presentation: Pour wild asparagus sauce and lime juice on a plate and arrange the pork.

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With the kind permission of the national federation of milk industries, FeNIL and the Spanish Institute for External Commerce, ICEX.

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Cooking with wine

Wine in food

By Sheila Collis

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sing wine in cooking isn’t a way to use up leftovers, it’s just as important to use a good wine and as dignified a use as ser ving it at table.

It makes no sense at all spending a lot of money on prime ingredients and then dousing them in a carton of some cheap plonk – you can always tell the difference in the end result. One pleasant idea is to accompany the meal with the same wines you have used in the various dishes. It would be impossible to list all the dishes where wines are used, the list is almost infinite, but four famous recipes stand out; Riñones al jerez, coq au vin, melon in port and champagne sorbet.

Wine in cooking has three basic functions, to aid the maceration process in marinades, to

steamed mussels for example. Dry fino from Andalusia is excellent over sea or gilthead bream and similar fish baked in the oven. In general sea fish isn’t marinated because the flesh is already soft, however fresh salmon marinated in dry white is a succulent exception. Many fresh water fish like tench and trout can be enhanced by a strong and fragrant marinade such as might be used in partridge in pickle sauce (perdiz escabechada) and of course the famous Andalusian pescaítos.

Wine in meat dishes form part of the sauces and to add a final touch to some recipes. The important thing isn’t the alcohol which disappears completely or almost completely during the cooking process, it’s the flavour that it adds and the softening of the ingredients which is achieved during maceration.

Wine in soup The majority of us like a touch of wine in our soups.

A chicken consommé is one which springs to mind, where a dribble of a fine dry or amontillado sherry added just before the cooking period ends, turns a soup into a gastronomic work of art. Try ruby port

in game soup, cava in onion soup and dry whites with fish and shellfish soups.

Wine in fish dishes All white fish cooked dishes will benefit from the addition of a glass of dry white wine in the sauce.

This also goes for shellfish,

A good casserole must have wine. Germans and Alsatians use Riesling or other similar wines for their famous meat, potato and vegetable dishes such as the famous baeckeoffe and for sauerkraut. The French wouldn’t dream of leaving a glassful of new wine out of their ‘cocotte’ where they prepare chicken or a young

hare. As for game, there is no other food group that responds better to maceration and cooking with wine.

Wine in desserts Red wine is the best for poaching pears and peaches or a two tone effect can be achieved by using a medium sweet white first then standing them upright in a lesser amount of red. Cava is excellent with many cold sweets, ice creams and sorbets and a little sweet sherry or jerez coñac is excellent over a baked apple. Melon with port is sublime and in baking and confectionary the distilled spirits like brandy and anís are irreplaceable.

To conclude, we have to agree with the Spanish literary character Celestina, whose night time snack was a round of toast moistened with wine, “There is no bad wine, and even if bad, it’s ok for lettuce”.

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Atlantis Investment Property All the benefits of a top class resort at a fraction of the price.

Where the grass is always greener They do say that imitation is the sincerest form of flatter y, and while you can’t get any better than grass as nature intended, with Royal Grass artificial grass you are probably as close to the real deal as you can get.

As the moder n world creeps in, bringing with it hard surfaces inside and out, tiles and pavings, the luxury of green zones seems an increasing remote choice. And of course here in the Canary Islands, the blessing that is the year-round hot weather isn’t the most conducive to maintaining a lush verdant garden. But if you want to live on the right side of the fence where the grass is always greener, Royal Grass is very definitely what you’re looking for. Looks and feels like the real thing but is a truly hassle-free alternative.

Whatever the season, whatever the weather, Royal Grass retains its rich colour year after year. Made from highquality TenCate ar tificial grass fibres the product has been extensively tested for UV-resistance and protection against discolouration under extreme circumstances. The suppliers promise minimum maintenance - any twigs, leaves or dir t are easily swept away, preventing weed growth. However should the latter occur these are easily removed by hand or kept at bay by applying a weed killer.

What makes Royal Grass such

most boisterous of children and of course is ideal for a few rounds of pitch and putt before you set off for the golf course.

No matter what size garden you enjoy, Royal Grass will enhance the look and feel, (not to mention the value) of your exterior, and of course it’s ideal for patios and terraces too. And to encourage the natural feel of walking on springy grass, they have introduced the new Royal Grass Comfort Foam.

This foam layer is applied directly underneath your artificial grass lawn ensuring a comfortable, springy feeling when walking on Royal Grass. And as your garden is specific to your home, the design and layout of your new lawn will be specific to your needs, with Royal Grass only using dealers who have the training, experience and tools to do a professional job, and do it fast.

a top product? Inspired by nature the grass fibres mimic the colour, the shape and the structure of natural grass.

A robust core, the so-called ‘backbone’ of the fibres, maintains the upright stance

of the fibre and uses a naturall V shape. Great to look at, wonderful to touch, and tough to boot!

Royal Grass can withstand the rough and tumble of the

Why not find out for yourself, and contact Ecograss, the only o official distributors for Royal R Grass here in the C Canary Islands.

F For more information call Amós on 667297885 for the Tenerife of fice aand Martín on 627331022 for the Gran Canaria office and take the first step to a greener you.

Owning abroad has never been easier There’s a new way of buying a holiday home – fractional ownership.

It’s the latest and safest way of buying your escape to the sun as the asset, in this case the property is usually owned by a specially created company and you buy shares in that company. This means that you can transfer or sell the shares without having to pay for costly changes in the title deeds and there are tax benefits. It also means that you have a full share in bricks and mortar. This is not timeshare. You have a part ownership of the title as opposed to just buying units of time. As your property increases in value, so do the shares and they can be sold or handed down over the generations just like any other property asset.

Depending on the resort the fractional shares vary from a thirteenth to a half share and individuals have the right to use the property at set times every year.

They can also choose to swap the dates (if another owner agrees) or use some of their weeks to generate income by letting through a dedicated letting and management company who look after everything on your behalf. Dividing the ownership also means a division of the expenses of running and maintaining the property, so you have all the benefits of a top class resort at a fraction of the price.

A brand new development has just come on the market at Castillo Beach, Costa Caleta in Fuerteventura and prices start at a bargain basement level of 19,975 euros. For more information, check out the web page at www.aip-propertygroup.com/.

Excellent Medical

Integrated healthcare is here Have you ever thought how much easier your health care would be if ever ything and ever yone you needed to see was located in the same place, somewhere with easy parking and an on-site pharmacy to boot?

Well that’s exactly what you have at the new Excellent Medical centre in Golf del Sur. Be you resident or tourist, this quite excellent centre can of fer you ever ything you need on a health scale of one to ten, whether you’re in need of specialist care or urgent attention following an accident. They also work in conjunction with a growing

number of health insurance providers – Mapfre, DKV and Sanitas for example – and insular hospitals to provide you with a comprehensive level of attention. Translators are available for patients who don’t speak Spanish.

The two men behind the development, owner and qualified pharmacist Jose Vigo and medical director Juan Miguel, bring years of medical experience to the project. Jose Miguel, a qualified doctor, has worked in both private and public practise in Tenerife, but with this new venture can offer patients a new level of service, with the centre offering a huge range of integrated

ser vices and specialities, many of them, until now, only available in hospitals.

In effect, a patient need look no further. If you are in need of a general consultation you will be seen by a GP who will then assess your state of health. If he/she finds that you require a further consultation you can be referred to a specialist within the centre, your medical information and records are transferred directly (though of course patient confidentiality is strictly observed), without you having to make any external appointments, reducing the potential waiting drastically. The clinic can also offer second opinions if you

are unhappy with a diagnosis from another doctor.

In house specialisations currently on offer include cardiology, gynaecology, pediatric care, neurology, traumatology, and many

more. The clinic also operates a fertility clinic, offers acute pain diagnosis and treatment and an MRI service as well as dental and eye care.

Excellent Medical also of fer top class aesthetic

services, such as laser and dermatology treatments, mesotherapy. The centre houses a pharmacy which will soon have a dispensing licence, and a pleasant outdoor café where patients can wait for their appointments (there are screens throughout the building with information as to which appointment is next in each consultancy).

For more information visit their webpage, www. excellentmedical.es, and for appointments call 922 737560/922 738247.

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The Property Gallery

Sheraton La Caleta

Blind tasting

Fantastic investment opportunity

A unique gastronomic opportunity in the middle of June at this prestigious hotel in Adeje.

The guinea pigs for the event were members of the press from all over the island who were offered a supper with a difference – everyone was blindfolded to focus their attention more intensely on the flavours they were savouring. To the sound of gentle music and only a few tiny candles lighting the hotel’s bodega, the first ‘blindfolded supper’ was served around a large table, a five course meal, designed by the hotel’s superb chef, John Hornsby, to delight all the senses.

Guests were invited to a drink on the terrace of the Bar Glorieta afterwards where a lively conversation took place as they exchanged sensations. This was the first monthly event with a maximum of 14 places and

THE PROPERTY GALLERY IN PUERTO COLÓN The Property Galler y S.L., situated in Puerto Colón, has great pleasure in offering an exclusive opportunity to purchase these properties in the upmarket, residential area of San Eugenio Alto.

the public will have their first chance to try the experience on July 25 at 9.00 pm. For more information call 922 16 20 00.

The proper ties concerned are very spacious one bedroom fully furnished bungalows comprising large lounge, fully fitted modern kitchen, large bedroom with en-suite bathroom and jacuzzi bath, cloakroom, atrium garden and a big terrace with sea views. There is enough space to easily add another bedroom if desired.

There is a very attractive communal swimming pool with waterfall and also onsite there is an excellent restaurant, children’s play area and gymnasium. The

complex is well located, very close to the Aqua Park, local shops, bars and all amenities.

These properties are an ideal investment as a retirement home, holiday home or rental

income, or a combination of these.

Bearing in mind that these bungalows can be very easily extended to give another bedroom, it makes the price of 115,000 euros look extremely attractive, but even without this they are really good value in today’s market, and set in an excellent and easily accessible location with plenty of car parking space nearby. For information or to arrange viewings please call 922 719925 or e-mail thepropertygallery@teide.net

Regattas

When the boat comes in rices and pastas, and some of Spain’s choice meats.

At Regattas, the team does not just concentrate on how your meal is cooked and presented, but also on the prices so that your bank account doesn’t feel the pinch. Their prices are incomparable and the food delicious.

Enjoy your meal outside on the airy terrace, or pop inside for drinks and snacks

To those who have lived on the island for some time and others who have holidayed in Tenerife time and time again over the years, Regattas in Puerto Colón is a ver y familiar name.

Regattas is now under new management and has in a sense just been relaunched with a brand new concept.

The new managers are promoting a selection of the best fresh fish and seafood on the island, and even have their ver y own fisherman

who brings these delights straight from the sea to the table. It just doesn’t get any fresher than that! What better place to relax and enjoy your meal, as Regattas occupies a prime

position on the ground floor overlooking the marina.

If you are not in the mood for fish, then choose a meal from the selection of Mediterranean cuisine available at Regattas, including the finest

PUERTO COLÓN where the bar area is modern and refreshingly decorated in marine blues, all with a nautical feel.

Regattas is the only fresh fish restaurant in Puer to Colón, and everyone is welcome.

The Regattas team are looking forward to welcoming and serving you. For more information or to reser ve your table, call 922 724201.

Restaurant by the harbour specialists in fish

Restaurant Puerto Colón

922 724 201

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Motoring CAR RENTAL All models, PSV, 4x4 & minibus Daily, short & long term hire

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Renault Megane Scenic 1.9 Diesel Conquest.

March 2008, 22000kms, 1 years Manufacturers War ranty r emaining, Immaculate condition. One careful owner, genuine reason for sale. Cost 22.000 euros new. Price 15.995 euros. Contact Colin on 608643843

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CARS TO RENT LONG TERM 250€ - 300€ PER MONTH INCL. INSURANCE Phone Terry on 661 264 080 Email: terrybury@gmail.com The family friendly car hire company

Mercedes Benz, SEL 600 V12 400cv, 5p, 1993, 180,000 km, black, automatic, ABS, four airbags, traction control, ESP, speed limiter.

Leather grey inner with walnut wood, air-con, heating system, adjustable setas with electronic memory. Central locking, double cr ystal lamps, sun roof, electronic rear view mirrors, nearly new wheels. Just passed ITC, fully equipped, ver y good condition, 16,000 euros, tel 629 244958 Suzuki Jimny 1.5D, 2004, 52,000 kms, air con, alarm, fender, hardtop, 8.800 euros, tel 609 130551 Audi A3 - 1.8T. Engine: 1.8Litres. Kms: 180000kms.

Year: 2000. Petrol. Doors: 2. Price: 7300€. Tel: 606552281 Opel Astra G Caravan.

Engine: 1.7Litres. Kms: 172000kms. Year: 2000.

Diesel. Doors: 2. Price: 3800€.

Tel: 617878616 Volkswagen GTI. Engine: 2Litres. Kms: 52000kms. Year: 2005. Petrol. Doors: 2. Price: 17700€. Tel: 679412358 Rover RT 1.6. Engine: 1.6Litres. Kms: 77000kms.

Year: 1997. Petrol. Doors: 4. Price: 1800€. Tel: 625692869 Ford Focus. Engine: 1.6Litres. Kms: Year: 2006.

Petrol. Doors: 2. Price: 12250€. Tel: 615294522 Nissan Patrol GR. Engine: 3Litres. Kms: 114000kms.

Year: 2000. Diesel. Sun roof Doors: 2. Price: 13000€. Tel: 922716931 Hyundai Coupe. Engine: 2Litres. Kms: 27000kms.

Year: 2003. Petrol. Sun roof Doors: 2. Price: 11500€. Tel: 696576660 Ford A Doble Phaeton.

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Toyota Land Cruiser.

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Diesel. Sun roof Doors: 4 . P r i c e : 1 3 0 0 0 € . Te l : 620398646 Volkswagen Golf III. Engine: 1.8Litres. Kms: 188000kms. Year: 1993.

Petrol. Doors: 4. Price: 2200€.

Tel: 659419674 Jaguar X-Type 2.0D CLA. Engine: 2Litres. Kms: 83000kms. Year: 2003. Diesel.

Doors: 2. Price: 16500€. Tel: 685501440 Chrysler PT Cruiser.

Engine: 2Litr es. Kms: 136000kms. Year: 2001.

Petrol. Doors: 4. Price: 6900€.

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Ford Focus. Engine: 1.8Litres. Kms: 100000kms.

Year: 2002. Diesel. Doors: 2. Price: 4800€. Tel: 634239960

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Honda Shadow 600 vt 600CC. Horsepower: 44HP. Year: 1997. Kms: 20000kms. Price: 3600€. Tel: 922956178

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Diesel. Doors: 4. Price: 15500€. Tel: 606304345

Lanvertti mini buggy 49cc Quad 49CC. Price: 525€.

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Motorbikes : Lanvertti city 125CC. Price: 999€. Tel: 922636211

Lanvertti mini trial 49CC. Price: 330€. Tel: 922636211 Lanvertti mini moto cross 49CC. Price: 270€.

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Lanvertti mini supermotar 47CC. Price: 225€. Tel: 922636211

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Yamaha FZ1S 1000CC. Horsepower: 150HP. Year: 2007. Kms: 25000kms. Price: 8000€. Tel: 675150617

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Security shutters, high security locks and glass. Take advantage of our free security survey.

NEW - GLASS CURTAINS 'Why spoil the view" *Frameless folding glass doors and windows* Ideal for balcony/terrace enclosures and for existing patio areas See all the above in our showroom and watch the manufacturing process.

WE ONLY SELL WHAT WE MAKE - WE ARE NOT MIDDLE MEN. Directions: With Iceland on your right, take the second turn left after the ITV station and we are on your left behind Autos Tenerife.

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Be forever comfortable – whatever the weather!

04.

SPECIAL OFFER!* Only

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1699€

Lounge & Two Bedrooms

Items For Sale:

1 x 12000 BTU & 2 x 9000BTU

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Operational modes: cooling, heating, fan only or dehumidifying · *While Stocks Last

Swimming pool cold? Now use all year round! Pool Heaters – Latest Technology - Whisper Quiet – Maximum Efficiency.

Affordable and Economic (from less than 1€ per day!)

Private or Community - from 4499€ fully installed.

Computer for sale Compaq Presario PENTIUM 4 (2007) with Printer/Scanner HP Photosmart C6180

A.C. Direct

Tel. 677 799 475

Experienced professionals. Established more than 15 years in Spain.

Qualified by C&G and CITB to conform to EU refrigerant gas regulations.

Masonic Meetings:

Scheduled Maintenance Agreements available – Call for details

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500€

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902 789 189

For all your climate control solutions - Call for free no-obligation site survey

FULL RENOVATION WORK Would you like to change your house or apartment into a beautiful & cosy home? Or maybe all you need is a small renovation job? All with top quality finishing?

tel: 677 799 475

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LODGE TEIDE meets in Puerto de la Cruz on Wednesday evenings contact John Hughes on 922 38 22 29 email taffy007naeve@ yahoo.com

Horse sharing!

I am offering horse sharing for my 5 year old gelding. He is a very quiet horse and enjoys rides.

Interested?

Please call 609 929 278

ROTARY MEETING Every Monday at 8.20pm in the Hotel Conquistador. All visitors welcome

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CLASSIFIEDS / PROPERTY

75.00m . 2 rooms 690€. Phone: 922273239

Rent :

05.

Property Business Opps : For lease restaurant working with good client base Beautiful local with a family feel, ample parking Tel 637 560 700 For Sale: Chance of a Lifetime to aquire an entertainment bar in Tenerife’s finest area ‘Parque de la Paz’.

Excellent Turnover; offers over € 100,000.

Tel: 922781952 or 696336936.

Costa del Silencio For rent 2 bedroom apartment, 100m2, American kitchen with fridge freezer and microwave, separate utility/ washroom, large dining/living area, fully furnished, swimming pool, onsite supermarket, minimum six months rental, 600 euros per month. To view call 608 016863 In Playa de Fañabé, apt, 3 bed, 2 bath, fully furnished, independent kitchen, terrace 35m 2, community pool and playground, excellent location, close to commercial centres and 800 metres from the beach. Price: €875/month.

Tel. 629 244 958

FOR SALE

Wanted : Desperate to sell your property? We will buy your house or apar tment for Cash, and complete within 28 Days. We are not Agents. Call (0034) 922 720222 or visit www. tenerifehomebuyers.com

Insurance :

LINEA DIRECTA Your direct line to cheaper home insurance Call 902 123 738

Rent : Available to rent – local with large terrace in prime position in Los Cristianos.

Ideal for Hairdressers, office or similar. Tel 629 911338 Studios, 1 and 2 bed apartments from 400€ for rent to mature-minded people in Tor viscas Alto. UK TV channels. For details, phone Nadine: 922 715 162

Lovely 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom duplex apartment for rent in Amarilla Bay, Costa del Silencio.

Fully furnished, English community TV, three terraces, washing machine, communal pool, 600 euros per month. Tel 659 489690 for more details

Flourishing freehold business established 6 years in the up and coming area of Alcalá with high reputation throughout the south west coast and beyond.

Sales of quality second hand furniture, household goods, removals and hire service of cots, car seats, fold up beds and high chairs, Room for expansion in all areas.

FREEHOLD shop area of 70m2.

With height for an upper level, Toyota truck regularly serviced, all stock kept to a high level between 6,000 to 8,000€ at no extra cost. REDUCED 190.000€ O.N.O or LEASEHOLD 70.000€.

Storage premises available with contract near to shop.

450€ per month if required.

Tel: 607 435 267 / 677 509 764 Email: maryelainet@hotmail.com

Parque la Reina, three bedroom fully fur nished apar tment, 2 bathrooms, separate kitchen, large garden with pergola, outdoor shed, indoor parking, storage, adjacent to community pool and tennis courts, phoneline and TV connection, phone 629 494331 1 bedroom apartment in Tamaimo, 390 euros, all included and private parking, 677 509766 Golf del Sur, attractive villa, 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms in exceptional position sur rounded by lakes, golf course, garden and sea views. Heated pool.

Parking by front door. No pets, 800 euros per month, 627 219001 Apartment Guargacho Location: central 0.00m2 1 room 440€. Phone: 663805740 Apartment Sta Cruz de Tenerife Location: central 70.00m2 2 rooms 650€.

Phone: 922273239

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Apartment Santa Cruz de Tenerife Location: central Views: mountain 85.00m2 3 rooms 600€. Phone: 922273239 Premises Santa Cruz de Tenerife Location:central 120.00m2 750€. Phone: 922273239

Residencial

La Duquesa Playa Fañabé

Premises Sta Cruz de Tenerife Location: central 70.00m2 1200€. Phone: 922273239 Unknown Santa Cruz de Tenerife Location: central 60.00m2 1 room 450€. Phone: 922273239 Apartment Santa Cruz de Tenerife Location: central

3 Bedroom, 2 Bathroom, front and back garden, comunity pool. €425,000

Villa Tagoro San Eugenio Alto

Furnished two bedroom, two bathroom apartment for long term rental in Costa del Silencio. English TV (Sky, BBC, ITV etc). Swimming pool. Lovely well maintained complex in a quiet location, but close to all local amenities. 650 euros per month. Tel 690 769899

Excellent opportunity in Costa del Silencio

Tel. 629 244 958

Terraced house Puerto de la cruz Location: outskirts Views:mountain 166.00m2 3 rooms 800€. Phone: 670242080 Industrial La Laguna Location: outskirts 1050.00m2 6000€. Phone: 922273239

Apartment Tabaiba Baja Location: outskirtsViews:sea 50.00m2 1 room 400€. Phone: 922273239

New 3 bedroom luxury villa 750,000€ Tel. (0034) 655 914 691 (0034) 922 71 33 56

Port Royale Los Cristianos 2 bedroom apartment

If it's great views that you're after then this lovely 2 bed, 2 bath apartment has some of the best. Great views over Los Cristianos out to sea with La Gomera on the horizon.

To be sold furnished & fully fitted, the property consists of an American style open plan kitchen and dining area combined with the large airy & light living room with patio doors leading onto the large 36m2 terrace which enjoys the afternoon sun.

Master bedroom is en-suite with patio doors leading out to the terrace and both bedrooms have fitted wardrobes.

Apartment, 73m2, 2 bed, 1 bath, American kitchen, fitted wardrobes. Terrace, 40m2 with views over Teide and the complex.

2 community pools, one heated and one salt water, playground and other services.

Price €82,000.

Studio Puerto de la cruz Location: central Views: sea 35.00m2 400€. Phone: 670242080

A p a r t m e n t - Fa ñ a b e Location: outskirts 0.00m2 2 rooms 795€. Phone: 922751064

Tel. 629 244 958

Three bedroom apartment, 2 bathrooms, garage, centre of Valle San Lorenzo, 450 euros plus bills, tel 665 125138

Apartment Santa Cruz de Tenerife Location: central 190.00m2 5 rooms 850€.

Phone: 922273239

The complex benefits from a large communal pool, reception, supermarket and many other amenities within a short walking distance.

Reduced from € 270,000 to € 225,750 for a quick sale.

Contact Horizon Property Group on 922 777 652 quoting ref C-1456

Tabaiba Alta Five minutes from the German school, delightful sunny apartment for rent, 3 bed, 2 bath, kitchen, large terrace with sea views, garden, double garage and 2 lumber rooms. Small complex, quiet zone, 10 minutes from Santa Cruz.

Tel: 922 684187 Free frp, 01/07/09 Terraced house Durazno 166.00m2 3 rooms 800€.

Phone: 670242080 Studio Centro ciudad 0.00m2 400€. Phone: 670242080 Studio Centro ciudad 35.00m2 480€. Phone: 670242080 Chalet Las Candias 100.00m2 2 rooms 1000€.

Phone: 670242080

Premises Santa Cruz de Tenerife Location: central 0.00m2 2000€. Phone: 922273239

Studio San Fernando 33.00m2 400€. Phone: 670242080

Apartment Bajada Al Pris 59.00m2 2 rooms 450€.

Phone: 670242080

Apartment Armeñime 77.00m2 3 rooms 500€.

Phone: 670242080

Apartment Urb. paraiso 52.00m2 1 room 650€. Phone: 670242080

Apartment Maritim 80.00m2 1 room 800€. Phone: 670242080

Fo r R e nt · Fo r R e nt

Front line furnished studio apartment for rent in Callao Salvaje, long term let (minimum six months) preferred with purchase option available.

Incredible views of sea and La Gomera, near to local shops and restaurants, use of freshwater community pool. Contact C. O’Flynn, 686 586 519

GREAT INVESTMENT OFFER IN SAN EUGENIO ALTO Very spacious 1 bed bungalows.

Fully furnished. Ideal for retirement, holiday home or rental income.

ONLY 115.000 EUROS THIS IS AN EXCLUSIVE OFFER FROM THE PROPERTY GALLERY. CALL 922 719 925 E-mail: thepropertygallery@teide.net www.thepropertygallery.org

Property Finder reference: B1102

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Plot 400sq m. € 650,000. tel 607310854

05.

Property Sale : El Médano, directly from the owner!!! New, precious detached house, 3 bedrooms, 2 modern bathrooms, indep. kitchen, 3 ter races,bbq, luxur y complex with 2 swimming pools, 42m 2 closed garage, ver y exclusive furnished. Quiet zone, Price: 330.000 euros, Tel: 650 792 742 Torviscas Alto/ Resid.

Casablanca, directly from the owner!!! Very beautiful apartment (53m2) in the most exclusive zone of Tenerife, 1 bedroom and an small officeroom, very big bathroom, 35m2 terrace with precious views, luxury complex with swimming pool and gardens.

Garage and store-room. Only 6 months old!!! Price: 183.000 euros, Tel: 650.792.742 Detached Villa in Callao Salvaje. Quiet cu de sac facing a barranco.

5 bedrooms,5 bathrooms, lounge,dining room,kitchen, utility and study.Garden, courtyard, heated swimming pool plus store rooms. Sea and mountain views. Can

Finca Mansion Tenerife, unique situation, for extended family or small/ rental business (several apar tments), information email Finca-Tenerife@ hotmail.com To w n h o u s e , 3 b e d (double), 2 bath (I en-suite) 1 toilet, 2 terraces, storeroom, par tly or fully furnished, 200,000 euros. Lalano del Camello (Las Chafiras), tel 636 636680 Opportunity Adeje, new, ground floor home. Three bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, separate kitchen and sun terrace, 94m2 + 28m2 patio.

New building. Garage space, aire conditioned, solar panels, price reduced to 160,000 euros. Tel 609 541652 Opportunity – Adeje, penthouse, four bedrooms, 2 bathr ooms, separate kitchen, 94m2 + 80m2 terrace, panoramic views, new building, garage space, price reduced to 220.000 euros. Tel 609 541652 Studio Costa del Silencio. Location: central.

Views: mountain. 45.00m2.

1 room. 75000€. Phone: 670804067 Rustic Land La Hoya.

Location: outskirts. Views: mountain. 12000.00m2. 2 rooms. 300507€. Phone: 670804067 Callao Salvaje. Location: outskirts. Views: mountain.

280.00m2. 5 rooms. 850000€.

Phone: 610732040

CLASSIFIEDS / PROPERTY

Chalet La Laguna.Location: outskirts. Views: mountain.

149.00m2. 4 rooms. 285000€.

Phone: 629262735 Apartment Sta Cruz de Tenerife. Location: central.

157.00m2. 3 rooms. 277585€.

Phone: 922273239 Apartment La Laguna.

Location: outskirts 110.00m2.

3 rooms. 270000€. Phone: 922273239 Apartment Arona / Valle San Lorenzo. Location: central. Views: mountain.

85.00m2. 2 rooms. 120000€.

Phone: 627180081 Apartment Sta Cruz de Tenerife. Location: central.

60.00m2. 2 rooms. 144200€.

Phone: 922273239 Chalet Radazul Bajo.

Location: central. Views: sea 220.00m2. 4 rooms. 298700€.

Phone: 922273239 Apartment Santa Cruz De Tenerife. Location: central.

210.00m2. 5 rooms. 619000€.

Phone: 922273239 Apartment Santa Cruz De Tenerife. Location: central.

246.00m2. 5 rooms. 660000€.

Phone: 922273239

Urb. Arco Iris Playa Second line from the sea in Callao Salvaje.

Duplex, totally furnished, 75m2, separate ktichen, totally equipped, toilet, dining room, complete bathroom, 2 bedrooms, SAT-TV, solarium 30m2 with views to Gomera and Teide, garage space, community areas with 2 pools, automatic gates, community fees 54/month, 145,000 euros

Tel 629 244 958 Apartment Los Menores 3 rooms. 223650€. Phone: 922791061 Chalet Amarilla Golf 2 rooms. 444000€. Phone: 922791061 Chalet Los Olivos 1 room. 141750€. Phone: 922791061

Valle San Lorenzo Wonderful Villa with four seperate Living areas seaview, the second free plot is with building licence, 965m2, special offer, 550,000 euros for more information 667 387 459 / 922 765 446

3 bed, 2 bathroom duplex apartment for sale in Los Girasoles, El Madroñal Independent kitchen, downstairs toilet, office, living/dining room, 2 terraces approx 20m2 each.

For more information email ventasol@terra.es Apartment Llano del Camello 80.00m2. 2 rooms. 180000€. Phone: 922791061 Apartment Avda Pa l m - M a r 5 4 . 0 0 m 2 . 2 rooms. 199500€. Phone: 922791061

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Urb. Oasis Dakota, Playa Fañabé 3 bed semi detached, toilet, complete bathroom, separate kitchen, totally equipped, furnished, 35m2 terrace, secure access to pool, infant park, good views, beside commerical centres, 800m from Playa Fañabe, community feees 30/month, 185,000 € Tel 629 244958 Studio Tijoco Bajo 450.00m2. 6 rooms. 480000€.

Phone: 922791061 Chalet Los Abrigos 283.00m2. 4 rooms. 295000€.

Phone: 922791061 Studio Avd. Marítima 50.00m2. 1 room. 85000€.

Phone: 922376959

Chalet Avda Palm-Mar 1 room. 132000€. Phone: 922791061

Apartment Avda Palm-Mar 100.00m2. 3 rooms. 375000€. Phone: 922791061

Chalet Avda Palm-Mar 1 room. 127000€. Phone: 922791061

Studio Avda Palm-Mar 90.00m2. 2 rooms. 310000€.

Phone: 922791061

Studio El Toscal 71.00m2.

1 room. 189300€. Phone: 922376959

Chalet TenBel 1 room. 95000€. Phone: 922791061

Studio Avda Palm-Mar 110.00m2. 3 rooms. 465000€.

Phone: 922791061

Chalet TenBel 65.00m2.

2 rooms. 126000€. Phone: 922791061

Terraced house La Luz 100.00m2. 4 rooms. 420000€.

Phone: 922376959

Chalet Parque La Reina 156.00m2. 4 rooms. 264600€.

Phone: 922791061

Chalet Avda Palm-Mar 1 room. 130000€. Phone: 922791061

Chalet Las Chafiras 162.00m2. 3 rooms. 241500€.

Phone: 922791061

Apartment San Antonio 92.00m2. 4 rooms. 220880€.

Phone: 922376959

Apartment Santa Cruz De Tenerife. Location: central.

120.00m2. 3 rooms. 174300€.

Phone: 922273239

Apartment Las Cabezas 50.92m2. 2 rooms. 176700€.

Phone: 922376959

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Selection of studios (with separate bedrooms), 1 & 2 bed units.

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New Peugeot 308 CC

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nnovative string quartet Bond were commissioned by Peugeot in the UK to record a brand new arrangement of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons in celebration of the launch of Peugeot’s 308 CC - a chic and sporty car for all seasons – spring, summer, autumn and winter.

It is the perfect soundtrack for the 308 CC, the only car to combine the elegance of a coupé with the open air exhilaration of a cabriolet.

The 308 CC, a car small in appearance which comfortably seats four people, has smooth lines which give subtle reflections of light.

Push a button and within 20 seconds, the electric folding retractable roof converts your coupé into a cabriolet.

It has a high level of standard equipment including 17 inch alloy wheels, a full body coloured exterior, chrome embellished front fog lights, black and grey sports cloth trim and black instrument dials. In car entertainment is provided by Peugeot’s new Connect Sound RD4-1

Radio/CD player and audio pack with six speakers and audio remote control. For comfort and convenience, automatic climate control, a leather steering wheel, remote control locking glove box and centre armrest storage are also standard. Safety and security features include

six Smart safety airbags, unfastened seatbelt detection system, speed variable power assisted steering, speed control and ESP (Electronic Stability Programme which includes ABS, EBFD & EBA).

The petrol engines available are the 1.6 litre THP 150hp (six speed manual transmission) or the THP 140hp (four speed automatic), and for diesel, the Hdi 140hp (manual) or the Hdi 136hp (automatic). With low carbon dioxide emissions and the Peugeot

Blue Lion programme, it is kind to the environment.

There are many optional extras which you can order to make your 308 CC individual, including metallic or lacquer paint, black leather luxury trim, grey luxury leather trim, vintage luxury leather trim (all including windstop), the Airwave (temperature controlled) neck heating system, integral black leather trim instead of simple leather and with electric seats, alloy wheel upgrade from 16 to 17 inch or 17 to 18 inch, Peugeot Connect USB/ Bluetooth, Peugeot Connect Sat Navigation (RNEG) with Bluetooth,

Peugeot Connect Media Navigation (NG4) with 3-D colour and Bluetooth, GSM phone and MP3 music storage function, JBL Hi-Fi system, rear parking aid, front and rear parking aid, cruise control with speed limiter, ultrasonic alarm, windstop, electric pack (for electric seat adjustment with leather option only), and visibility pack which includes automatic rain sensing front wipers, automatic headlamps and an electrochrome rear view mirror.

Make your car even more dynamic with the Sports Pack which includes antitheft alarm, rear obstacle detector, tyre pressure sensor and 18 inch alloy wheels.

Your new Peugeot 308 CC is available now in the Canaries from 28,300 euros.

Don’t forget the government aid schemes if you are trading in a vehicle more than 10 years old or which has covered more than 250,000 kilometres, plus of course the Peugeot warranty for your peace of mind. For more information, visit www.peugeot.es

SportNews

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NBA signings Rubio is leaving his options open

A move for Tenerife born Sergio Rodríguez and the player who replaced him in the national team, Ricky Rubio. Sergio transfers from Portland Trail Blazers

to the Sacramento Kings after three seasons under trainer, Nate McMillan, where he spent more time on the bench than the court and only came on as a match starter on 14

Socas Canarias

New signings

Richy at the Socas basketball campus

Tenerife basketball team, Socas Canarias, have recently signed three top players.

First on board was winger Nacho Yáñez, who declared himself delighted to be returning to the Islands (he was with CB Tenerife over the sea-

son 2002/2003, Unelco in 2003/2004 and UB La Palma 2008/2009). “If we work together and sensibly, we can do interesting things,” he affirmed.

The second signing to be presented was the Tenerife born centre, Richy Guillén. He too

occasions. Ricky Rubio fared rather better, selected fifth in the NBA draft, the second highest position ever achieved by a Spanish player behind Pau Gasol who was third. The Minnesota Timberwolves chose Ricky, but it is uncertain whether he will join the NBA next year or not as there are problems with his current club, DKV Joventut and the player himself has doubts about the Timberwolves as he had no previous contact with them. His agent is said to be in talks with the Knicks and meanwhile, the player is keeping all his options open but declared, “for the moment I think I’ll be coming back to the ACB League”. His argument with his current club, which he claims has set a transfer fee far and away out of step with his current income, is set to reach the courts in October.

called for a group effort over and above individual fame, “every year there are examples of groups of great players who end up crashing. That is why it is fundamental to form a good team, keep our feet on the group and be sensible,” he announced.

The newly arrived player also took part in the Socas basketball campus, much to the delight of the children.

Quique Garrido, who plays guard, completed the signings. “I know this is a serious club,” he declared during his official press presentation, adding, “and they have a very interesting project on the go. What’s more, their fans are right behind the club and it’s great to play like that. I am sincerely looking forward to starting very much.”

Aly Cissokho

Transfer teething problems Cissokho’s transfer to the Milan San Siro stadium is in doubt

doctors expressed concern that the problem might lead to a cervical or spine injury which would prevent him from playing to his full ability. The astonished player was unable to sign the contract and talks were opened to find a solution to the dilemma.

The transfer of Senegalese player Aly Cissokho to AC Milan from Portuguese side FC Porto hit teething problems, literally. The

21-year-old defender was due to sign for 14 million euros at the end of June but his medical showed that his teeth were badly aligned in his jaw and the Italian club’s

Milan have offered a sixmonth loan period during which the teeth will be fixed and then they will decide if a permanent move is possible.

In the meantime, Ricky will be joining the national selection on July 30 for the precompetition training for this year’s Eurobasket in Poland (7 – 20 September). The full line up is Carlos Cabezas (Unicaja), Víctor Claver (Pamesa Valencia), Rudy Fernández (Portland Trail Blazers), Jorge Garbajosa (Khimki), Marc Gasol (Memphis Grizzlies), Pau Gasol (Los Angeles Lakers), Raúl López (Real Madrid), Alex Mumbrú (Real Madrid), Juan Carlos Navarro (Regal FC Barcelona), Felipe Reyex (Real Madrid), Berni Rodríguez (Unicaja) and Ricky Rubio (DKV Joventut).

World Cup

Fixture changes The 2010 World Cup in South Africa has forced the Spanish Football Association to make changes to the fixture list for the coming season.

Games will now begin on 30 August and end on 16 May to allow the national side enough time to prepare for the tournament, for which it has virtually qualified already thanks to impressive performances in the group stage. The changes see four mid-week dates included in the 1st Division calendar (23 September, 24 March, 14 April and 5 May). The FA says it may also bring forward the Cup Final, scheduled for 26 May, if no Spanish side reaches the Champions League Final a few days earlier. Barcelona will have to reschedule their match on 20 December to be able to play in the World Club Championship which takes place that week.

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Megabowl

TENERIFE

Compiled by Doreen Lemm

10 pin bowling league results

Tenerife 8 Ball RED LEAGUE TEAM

YELLOW LEAGUE PL W D L P

1. The Palms Bar 2. Ten Hammers A 3. Target Bar A 4. Toscales Old Boys 5. The Cygnets 6. Atlantis Bar 7. North & South A 8. Trap Door B 9. Phoenix Potters 10. The Terrace Bar 11. Barracuda

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TEAM 1. The Swan 2. The Brum Pub 3. Delicias La Cana 4. Trap Door A 5. Bar Nauta A 6. Rat Pack 7. Ten Hammers B 8. Legends 9. Lupain Properties 10. Bar Nauta B 11. Target Bar B

PL W D L P 20 20 20 19 19 20 20 20 19 20 19

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PATINAJE ARTÍSTICO Nicole Marginson

Magic on wheels Tuesday Singles League Week 1 Chris Rose (2) Rhiannon Russell (6) Dave Stell (2) Gill Morton (6) Jeff Lemm (8) Allan Billing (0) Dave Dixon (8) Ron Howling (0) Avril Capper (2) Dave Simpson (6) Jacquie Gibb (0) Duncan Wallace (8) 200 for Gill and a 1,2,8,10 split for opponent Dave Stell.

Week 2

L i ke m a n y n e w generation Canarians, Nicole Marginson is English but born here in Tenerife, and has recently started to excel at a sport which is taking her all over the islands, and hopefully onto the nationals. Nicole began roller skating three years ago

and was recently proclaimed Tenerife champion in her category and also won in Gran Canaria. This year she is preparing to move up a level, and hopes to go to the nationals. Nicole is a member of the Magma Club Patinaje Artistico under the guidance of Simone.

Sue Long (7) Dave Stell (1) Allan Billing (2) Ron Howling (6) Dave Dixon (4) Duncan Wallace (4) Martin (0) Dave Simpson (8) Chris Rose (8) No player (0) Forfeit Gill Morton (2) Miguel Rodríguez (6) Jacquie Gibb (6) Jeff Lemm (2) A fine 218 for Sue, 216 and 203 for Dave Simpson and 200 for Chris.

Saturday Doubles League Week 27 No team (0) Megabowlers (8) Forfeit Smart as a Frog (8) No Team (0) Forfeit Troubleshooters (2) Buccaneers (6) A fine 216 for Buccaneer, Dave Dixon (8)

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Week 20 Canal Ocio Dayu (12) Megabowl Poppets (4) Golf Costa Adeje (16) Tasquita Damián (0) Tasca de Tranvia (12) Delfin Computer San Isidro (4) 206 for Franck (Golf Costa Adeje) and 204 for Rafa (Canal Ocio Dayu).

Week 21 Tasca de Tranvia (12) Golf Costa Adeje (4) Canal Ocio Dayu (16) Delfin Computer San Isidro (0) Megabowl Poppets (16) Tasquita

Damián (0) 202 for Rafa Minaya (Canal Ocio Dayu).

Ueli (Delfin Computer) is bowling although he recently had an operation on his thumb, best wishes for a speedy recovery.

Sunday Doubles League Week 28 - Final week Market Taverners (6) Racketeers (2) Pinseekers (8) No team (0) Nothing But Trouble (4) Buccaneers (4) A superb 236 for Michael (Nothing But Trouble) who has put in some excellent scores this season and deserves to bowl that elusive 250. Opponent, Dave Stell bowled an excellent 228 (Buccaneers).

Both were clean games.

Sunday League Champions: Dave Dixon and Dave Stell (Buccaneers) Runners Up: Ron Howling and Dave Simpson (Pinseekers) Men’s High Average: Ron Howling Women’s High Average: Carol Vedmore

Monday Fun League Week 9 The Super Whites (6) Megatramps (2) The Bears (0) Players Lounge (8) Chicas Malas (4) Steptoe & Son (4) Dumb & Dumber (4) No Team (0) Forfeit Monday Pub League Doubles Buccaneer (8) Maurelly (0) Tenerife Royal (2) Café Royale (6) A fine 204 for Dave Dixon Buccaneers.

My grateful thanks are extended to all the bowlers who texted, telephoned or sent messages to me after my recent operation, your kind wishes were greatly appreciated and lifted my spirits.

Especial thanks to Avril and Kev Capper and Barry and Val Smith, your gifts were definitely ‘naughty but nice’! and to Dave and Val Simpson and Dave Stell for taking the time to visit me in hospital.

I’m working hard at my daily physio sessions and practising with enthusiasm (if not grace!) on my crutches and hope to see you all soon at the Bowl.

By George Reed

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Boxing

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World title bid by Amir Khan

VOLLEYBALL

Bell signing goes sour The signing of top ladies volleyball player Reggie Bell by Tenerife turned out not to be a signing after all.

As reported here in the last edition, Bell was paraded as the first major coup of the Santa Cruz club, who prised her from rivals Cantur. However, shortly after the details of the signing were announced, Bell’s agent denied the move was taking place and accused Tenerife of jumping the gun. After days of rumours, Tenerife posted a message on the club website saying that it was negotiating an amicable solution to the problem. Insisting that the veteran international had signed a contract, the club admitted it would be difficult to keep her against her will after a Brazilian side offered her a lucrative deal.

“We are prepared to be flexible to ensure she realises her dream and as long as the change of heart does not jeopardise our situation,” said a later statement, meaning that financial compensation would be a precondition to releasing Bell from her agreement.

The failed transfer has been played down by Tenerife, who say other signings will “more than make up for the loss”.

In fact only days after, Tenerife Volleyball Club announced the signing of USA player Sherri Williams. Playing at centre position, Sherri, who has been signed from Haro Rioja, is 27 years old and 1.88 metres high. She is also a prominent member of her national side and her strong points are her strength, team playing spirit with an excellent attack and block ability.

Angelo Dundee (trainer of Ali and Leonard), “To me boxing is a very tough sport, but a ring is not the Roman Colliseum and boxers aren’t gladiators who must fight to the death”.

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ver three years ago I wrote an article on young Amir Khan who was due to take part in his sixth professional contest, and how his promoter Frank War ren had blasted misguided critics of his handling of the Olympic hero’s professional career, some suggesting that his opponents had been nothing more than sacrificial lambs.

I wrote at the time that the critics were wrong in expecting the youngster to run before he could walk. He had twelve more fights against opponents who were reasonable for developing him through his apprenticeship, facing a sensible mix of survivors, veterans, low level prospects and imports and awkward southpaws. He was steered well clear of big punchers, but that was understandable for none of his connections wanted to make a mistake, for the easiest thing in the world for a matchmaker is to get a youngster knocked out.

However along the way much was written regarding young Khan having to take counts after being put on the canvas by Michael Gomez and then by the light punching Willie Limond, but to Amir’s credit on both counts he recovered to exact terrible retribution to stop both opponents and that was the most important thing, showing that he had the mental toughness to come back after being chinned.

Unfortunately nine months ago in his fight against the virtually unknown Columbian Breidis Prescott he didn’t get the opportunity to recover, for he was caught cold within one minute of the first round by a tremendous left hook to his chin thrown by

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Afterwards everyone seemed to share the blame for Khan’s defeat. The boxer himself said he didn’t blame his new Cuban trainer, Jorge Rubio, who apparently came up with the name of Prescott, who he thought would be too slow to handle Khan’s speed.

Khan said that he himself was to blame for ignoring his trainer’s advice and he probably had a point there, for I think the advice would have been to keep away from his opponent’s punching range for a couple of rounds, knowing that Prescott had a reputation as a hard puncher, and ease his way into the fight.

The Bolton lad’s promoter, Frank Warren, also accepted blame by stating, “whoever Amir fights, the buck stops with me. He fights with a lot of risk. He has brought fans back into boxing and I’m sure he will be back.”

True to his word he did come back and with a bang, firstly with a resounding win against an average fighter, in the US based Irishman, Oisin Fagan, and then Warren did some very clever matchmaking in March, when he pitted him against the Mexican legend Marco Antonio Barrera, but not before he had placed him with a new trainer/coach in the shape of Freddie Road, one of the world’s proven best in the boxing game, and what a job he’s done over the years with the great Manny Pacquiao,

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Khan’s training in America under Roach and his hours of sparring sessions with the likes of Pacquiao seemed to have paid dividends, for, in his fight with Barrera, he kept his hands high, stayed out of range and boxed the Mexican’s head off until the referee stopped the fight in Khan’s favour due to a gaping cut of Barrera’s forehead, sustained by an accidental head clash in the first round.

During the five rounds that the fight lasted there appeared to be a new maturity about Kahn, and I must admit he looked good against Barrera, even though the boxing legend was way past his sell-by date.

Whether Amir is ready for a sterner test at present is anyone’s guess, but we’ll find out on Saturday 27th June at London’s O2 Arena, when he challenges the tough, experienced Ukrainian, Andreas Kotelnik, for his W.B.A.

super-lightweight belt.

Kotelnik won an Olympic silver medal four years before Amir won his, and both boxers were denied gold by the great Cuban Olympian Mario Kindelan.

The tough Ukrainian has lost two of his 34 contests in the professional ranks but he is a strong, skilful and durable boxer, who will fight to the death to retain his title in this, his third defence of the belt he won by stopping the Welshman Gavin Rees in March last year. He’s not renowned as a one-punch knock-out merchant, having only 13 wins inside the distance, but he himself has never been stopped, or even put on the canvas in any of his 34 fights, going back nine years. I envisage Khan being too fast a puncher for the champion to cope with, and will box his head off after a few scary incidents. Let’s hope so!

On the subject of Khan, I would like to know when exactly did Naseem Hamed

become the gold standard for boxers who look as if they may turn out to be flops?

When Amir was blasted out in the 1st round by Breidis Prescott, there was talk from certain quarters that Khan was a fraud, just like ‘The Prince’. Okay, on the surface the comparison made a little sense, with them both being British of Arab descent. But the comparison ends there, for when did anyone see Hamed get knocked out in the first round by a virtually unknown fighter? As a matter of fact I would like to know when Hamed ever got knocked out.

Personally, I was never a big fan of his unorthodox style of boxing, with his hands often at waist level, and often unbalanced which caused him to be plonked on the deck on many occasions. He would throw punches from angles that you would think wouldn’t yield much power, but he could certainly punch one of the hardest punches ever in the featherweight division. In his first 15 fights there were 26 knockdowns and most of them were spectacular, and in the year he won the world title, Naz beat five world-ranked boxers and put them on the canvas a total of nine times.

Hamed’s record in the ring speaks for itself. He had 37 fights and lost only one, to the great Marco Antonio Barrera, who was in his prime at the time. During his career he stopped 31 of his 37 opponents, and had 16 fights for versions of the world title and was accepted as the undisputed world champion for a long time. It will be interesting to see if the highly talented Amir Khan can make any comparable claims at the end of his career.

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Players like Blair Macrorie of Exiles Bar, Gary Boyd of Taylor’s, Rhodri Jones of

The first game of the week saw Hole in the Wall take on the high flying Harleys.

Though missing team captain Keith, Hole in the Wall battled well, but Harleys, not for the first time, were just too strong, and won 127. Next up saw out of form Britannia F.C. start badly against Planet Football who

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Eclipse Café, members of the Living Room Squad along with Andy Bolesty of Morfitt Properties and many others have not only maintained the decent standards of play but have actually really increased the quality of the league week in week out.

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Hoops Bar led by Kade, took on Planet Football, the former winning 7-3. But if Planet Football captain Shane keeps adding strength to his squad then results will change soon. Tenerife Warriors beat Harleys 3-0 and are still in with a chance of winning this season’s very closely fought title race.

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1. TENERIFE WARRIORS 12 2. COLD FLOW 14 3. HARLEYS AMERICAN REST 12 4. TAYLOR’S MASTERS 11 5. THE HOOPS BAR 13 6. MORFITT MASTERS 10 7. BRITANNIA F.C. 13 8. HOLE IN THE WALL 10 9. PLANET FOOTBALL 13

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went 4-0 up in the first half.

It looked as if it was done and dusted, but Britannia fought back brilliantly, with some great goals from Sam Strange winning the game 8-4. Hoops Bar and Morfitt Masters were up next and with Hoops playing much better of late, Morfitt Masters had to be at their best, and with a great team performance they won the game 8-5. Taylor’s Masters took on big Billy Ion’s Cold Flow, a true top of the table clash. A high intensity performance from both sides with Coldflow just wanting it that little bit more, now taking the top spot in the league for the first time.

In the following week

A clash of the top two teams Dreamers Bar and the Canarian team turned into a classic encounter, with Big Rob’s Dreamers having to fight to the whistle to hang on to win 7-6. Next up saw Freesmoke.eu take on Grandee O’Donnell’s.

Freesmoke.eu, on the back of two heavy defeats, showed real character bouncing back in style winning this game 12-1. The following week Exiles Bar B team were next to take on the Canarians, which is a team made up of local Tenerife players and getting stronger every week. They made no mistakes against the Exiles, winning comfortably 16-4. A special mention must go to Exiles Bar B team Derek who, despite his side losing, scored some great goals. Last up saw another win for Vitoria beating Grandee O’Donnell’s 3-0 and taking top spot in the Championship League.

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Las Palmas

Season 2009/2010

New signings With a budget of €20 million CD Tenerife will be at the lower end of La Liga’s money clubs that is for sure.

W ith the policy of having to pur chase “cheap but good players” a lot of faith has been placed in the capable hands of director of football Santiago Llorente.

The club cannot fall into the trap of signing players on long expensive contracts as has happened in the past. According to President Miguel Concepción they will rely on the base of the team from the 2008-2009 campaign mixed with promising youngsters and possibly late on-loan deals from the Primera’s bigger clubs. We need players who are hungry to play football not an ageing prima donna thinking of a last pay day in the Canarian winter sunshine.

The first signing is expected in the next couple of days and looks like being José Angel Crespo, a young versatile defender from Sevilla. Football director Santiago Llorente has excellent relations with Sevilla FC and a loan deal may be arranged as well as the ‘re-signing’ on loan of Alfaro, one of the shining stars from the Tenerife side of last season.

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Debt spectre Winning resurfaces streak broken

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he optimism generated by the arrival of Sergio Kresic to take charge at Las Palmas has been dampened by the news that the club is in more financial trouble after the decision by Deportivo La Coruña to demand payment of a million euro debt.

The first division club has formally asked a court to freeze the assets of the Gran Canaria side, which is already under threat of enforced administration due to previous problems. The money is owed from transfers that took place several years ago but were never paid by Las Palmas. Despite several court orders in recent years Deportivo have not managed to obtain payment and the club has now decided that it will wait no longer. The news is a major blow to Las Palmas, who had successfully renegotiated the bulk of its crippling debts as part of a deal to avoid closure.

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pain’s record-breaking run in the past two years has put the country at the top of the all-time winning streaks.

The 2-0 win over South Africa in the final group match of the Confederations Cup, a curtain raiser for next year’s World Cup, brought the winning run to 15 games, the first ever national team to achieve the feat. The victory in Bloemfontain also brought the total number of games without defeat to 35, equalling the record held by Brazil.

The streak includes Euro2008, which Spain won by beating Germany in the Final, and an impressive sequence in the World Cup qualifiers. The country has headed the FIFA rankings since July 2008.

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CLUB

21/06/2009 CD Tenerife 1:2 Castellón CD Tenerife started the match knowing that only one point would be enough to be crowned champions of the Spanish second division. Promotion rivals Zaragoza and Xerez had drawn their matches the previous day leaving the path clear for the blanquiazules to seal the championship against a Castellón outfit with nothing to play for.

Cristo bade a very charged and emotional farewell to fans

Nino’s goal secured his place as Pichichi

The second half did not go to script in the slightest

The sun sets over an incredible season for CD Tenerife

carried off the pitch on the shoulders of the players and received an emotional standing ovation from the 20,000 + crowd. Cristo headed straight into the main stand and handed his Tenerife shirt to his 11 year old daughter who was in

floods of tears. At this very moment Castellón caught Tenerife on the counter attack and equalised through Arana. A distinct lack of concentration was to blame and although the blanquiazules had

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several chances to win the game (including one which saw a superb double save from Castellón goalkeeper Oliva) you just knew that the party would be spoilt.

In the very last minute Omar pounced onto a Tenerife defensive error and managed to squirm the ball under Sergio Aragoneses.

As I stressed earlier while winning the league is not the be all and end all at this level of Spanish football, it would have put the icing on an incredible season for Tenerife but it was just not to be. However the late goal did not dampen the traditional pitch invasion as thousands spilled onto the playing surface against the wishes of the club who had pleaded with fans not to. CD Tenerife had been threatened by the Spanish Authorities with a stadium closure after crazy scenes during their previous home match but they escaped with a €6,000 fine.

Cristo Marrero appeared soon after and took a lap of honour accompanied on the pitch by some 500 supporters. The fans left the stadium with mixed feelings after being only minutes from winning the league.

You had to feel sorry for the entrepreneurs on the streets who had hundreds of ‘Tenerife Champions’ t-shirts to try and sell but I think they saw the funny side!

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By Chris Todd / Photos: Gary Hill

Pichichi. He will definitely be staying at CD Tenerife for their return to the La Liga next season, that is unless Man City were to make an astronomical offer for him instead of Eto’o!

However the second half did not go to script in the slightest. As the spectacular sunset turned the sky red over the Heliodoro Stadium, local hero Cristo Marrero was substituted for the last ever time after six years playing for his beloved club. He was

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Second Division 29/06/2009

Not to be...

The truth is that the main goal for clubs in the second division is to claim one of the three promotion places, you do not get any extra prize for actually winning the league or even a trophy. In the run up to the game the players had endured several visits to town halls, celebratory meals and trips to local religious shrines, All in the name of celebrating their promotion to the Spanish Primera Division which they had achieved the week before. Couldn’t this have been done the week after the final match?

Training sessions were cancelled and the decision was made by manager Oltra to play some of the fringe players from the squad, as in Saizar and Cristo Marrero. Goal machine Nino needed one more goal to be proclaimed the ‘pichichi’ (top scorer) of the division and every first half attack by the blanquiazules appeared to be set up for Nino to grab his 29th goal of the campaign. And just before the break the packed Heliodoro Stadium was sent into a frenzy as Nino headed the ball over the advancing Castellón keeper, Oliva, to break the deadlock. As the crowd bowed and chanted Nino....Nino...Nino....the small likeable Tenerife marksman became only the fourth player in the history of the Club to become the

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Fan’s Favourite Cristo Marrero

Hard headed decision Tenerife fans’ impassioned plea to the club to extend captain Cristo Marrero’s contract have fallen on deaf fears.

Chairman Felipe Concepción insists that neither he nor the manager allowed sentimental reasons to dictate their difficult decision to offload certain players, Marrero included, within days of the season’s end.

Concepción is thought to have been irked by the constant chants of “Cristo Stays” during the promotion celebrations and made it clear afterwards that merit would be the only factor considered in putting together the squad for next season in the first division. “Cristo himself has said this season is his last here and we will not be changing his mind for him. He is a committed player but we need to build a squad that can compete in the top flight. If the manager believed he has the right qualities he would have been in the running,” said the chairman.

Concepción has the support of club directors, who stress that Marrero played little part in the historic season just ended and if he was a fringe player until now he could not expect to be an automatic choice for the squad next season.

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