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The 43 Grupo of the Spanish AIr Force, whose main mission is forest fire extinction, will again be carrying out training exercises throughout the Canaries next week. The Air Force says that between 6 and 10 May there will be two planes training out of Gando in Gran Canaria, in conjunction with the Military Emergencies Unit and the Ministry of Ag, Foods & Environment. Flights will cover all the islands so we will have a good chance to get to see these professionals training in readiness for the summer fire risk season: the best chance to spot them will be near the coast, reservoirs and forest areas, and naturally, if anyone does see them it’s important to know that there is no cause for concern.
Source: Janet Anscombe
Guía de Isora’s famous tapa route – Tapeando Isora
Guía de Isora has announced that the municipality’s annual wine and tapas route – Tapeando Isora – starts today, the tenth time the event has been held. It will run until 7 December, and as before, the ruta will be limited to Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. On...
Pre-Christmas wine and tapas with Santiago del Teide’s Acantilado de Sabores in Playa la Arena Saturday 7 December
Santiago del Teide has announced that this year’s Acantilado de Sabores will be held on Saturday 7 December at Playa La Arena between 7pm and midnight. Again, the focus will be very much on local wines and tapas for some lovely traditional pre-Christmas Canarian...
Autumnal Tenerife – November is chestnut month with fairs in honour of San Andrés
Just as it’s conker time in the UK, November in Tenerife is a cosy and autumnal month with chestnuts roasting over many a live coal in braziers in the streets. The reason is a series of fairs in honour of San Andrés, the saint whose namesake St Andrew’s feast day in...
Traffic disruption this weekend as President of China visits Tenerife
It’s unlikely that we’ll get a glimpse of the Chinese president himself but anyone on the roads this weekend is almost certainly going to see the effects of his visit as police and security teams’ plans will inevitably involve delays and road closures. Although...
The Christmas lottery in Spain – 2019 video(s) released today
It’s that time again … The Christmas lottery adverts are similar in Spain to the John Lewis adverts in the UK, often real tear jerkers, and this year’s campaign has not one but four videos telling the stories of those Unidos Por Un Décimo (United by a tenth). The...
Spain’s deadlock ends as PSOE-Podemos agreement gives the country its longed-for stable Government at last
Updated 12 November: Perhaps it is possible to learn lessons after all. This time, there will be stable Government after the failed efforts of the past administration have finally succeeded in achieving a pact with Podemos. The two party leaders, PM Pedro Sánchez and...
Los Cristianos wine and food festival 2019
Arona Ayuntamiento says that this year’s Los Cristianos wine and food festival will be held at the Plaza Pescadora on the Paseo Marítimo around the harbour between 12 noon and midnight on Saturday 23 November. There’ll be Canarian wine on offer with traditional tapas,...
The Brexit post: Proxy voting website will help match voters with proxies in their old constituencies
Updated 10 November: Anyone looking for a proxy to vote next month, and anyone who is prepared to be a proxy for a British national in Europe, can now fill in a simple form, and will be told this coming week if there’s a constituency match … proxy voters must vote in...
We will remember them
Photo: Royal British Legion. Tomorrow, it will be 101 years since the end of WW1, but it is today when church and civil services will be remembering those who died in the Great War, the war known as the war to end all wars. Those years are nothing in terms of...
PuzzleAtípico invites young performance artists with Aspergers to take part in Living Arts Laboratory and Aspercan drama project
PuzzleAtípico is a Canarian video and performance group made up of young people with Asperger’s Syndrome, and it’s starting its fourth season now with a call for artists and collectives to participate in a project run by the Aspercan Association and the Tenerife...
Painstaking operation to recover lorry full of diesel which fell into a barranco becoming perched on the edge of a cliff
Photo: Gobcan. The Canarian Government’s Security and Emergencies Board (Dirección General de Seguridad y Emergencias) has had its work cut out to stop an environmental disaster after a tanker lorry full of fuel fell down the Barranco de la Hondura in the Tacoronte...
Christmas in Tenerife 2019-2020
Updated 26 November: Guía de Isora has unveiled its full Christmas programme. It can be viewed HERE. Other programmes as they’re released: La Orotava Updated 25 November: A month today it’s Christmas Day, and Guía de Isora Ayuntamiento has announced three Christmas...
