All year round you can find art and craft shows in Tenerife, outlets to showcase and sell the traditional wares of rural life, but for three days Pinolere in the northern La Orotava valley is the biggest show on the island.

From September 5 to 7 some 128 exhibitors will converge on the small village to [...]

There is certainly no shortage of people emptying bottles in The Canary Islands, bottled beers are favoured over draught by the locals, and wine production and consumption are both high across the islands. Thankfully an enterprising company in Gran Canaria, are leading the way in recycling bottles and producing new, more environmentally friendly replacements.

Vidrieras Canarias [...]

There seems to be a feeling among some people that green policies are very negative and all about what we can’t do. With apologies to an old television advert - good old environmental awareness, it’s not just there for the bad things in life! That has just been proved at a fun fair in Santa [...]