Calling all would-be designers. The Tenerife Design Festival (TDF) is to take place between 19th to 25th of October 2009.

The idea is to merge current design trends together with Canarian identity through five areas, resulting in Tenerife becoming a mass of creativity and design. 9 designers will join with Tenerife

Celebrating something? Looking for something different?? How about hiring Walk On Water??? The most fun you can have in the water without getting wet! It’s easy!! Honestly! All you need is a pool.

Walk On Water is the latest craze sweeping Tenerife. A 2 meter plastic ball is inflated with you in it and then launched onto a pool – then you just start walking! Supposedly!! It is not as easy as it looks, but you can have great fun trying, and you could be one of the few who take to it it like erm, well a duck to water! If your pool is big enough, the team can use two balls at a time for races, gladiator wars – whatever you want!!

Walk On Water is already available in some hotels on the island, Club Olympus Resort in Las Americas has the Balls every wednesday from 3.00pm and non residents of the resort are all welcome.

You can hire the team for your party. As long as your guests are all over 5 years old, you can have a party with a difference. For more information call 922 711 445 or 650 723 853 or email anagram51@hotmail.com.

Have a look at some more images on flickr!

* If you are considering using the pool of a private complex, you will need to get permission from your president.

We are all used to, and thoroughly fed up with so called “Budget Airlines” offering low cost fares to sunny climes. But, by the time you have added taxes and have cheek to want to take luggage with you on holiday, low cost is just about the last descrption you would use.

All this is about to change. PalmAir, who fly from Bournemouth have launched a service you could only expect in the good old days. Firstly you are allocated a seat at check in. Hurrah!! No more desperate panics trying to sit with your loved ones. You are also permitted to take luggage and other essentials of up to 20kg without added cost!!!! Incredible!! Better still, this airline will even feed you!!!!!!! All of this is included in the cost of your flight, even airport taxes and other service charges.

With prices from as low as 59.00 Sterling to Tenerife, Fuerteventura and Lanzarote this is surely a “Budget Airline” worth considering.

For more information click here:

A beautifully decorated apartment for sale in the town of San Isidro, Tenerife

Includes two good sized bedrooms with fitted wardrobes, the master being en-suite, separate guest shower room. American style kitchen which includes an integral dishwasher and a very large, light, lounge/diner with “Juliet” a terrace.

The apartment is to be sold fully furnished and has been maintained to a very high standard.

Price includes private garage parking space and storeroom.

The town of San Isidro has everything you would need and, although only 5 minutes from the airport, is a very quite area.

Price reduced for a quick sale to

For all investors in the know, a recession can be the best time to buy property, with people having to sell properties they bought in easier times. In a full-blown recession, properties are repossessed and sellers who are desperate to move take almost any offer they can get, therefore prices drop.

Now anyone with funds can cash in and buy apartments and villas for a fraction of their value, safe in the knowledge that their investment can only increase. As the worst of the current recession is over, banks are begining to lend again so investments of this kind are now a good option before property prices settle again, and people begin to get their confidence back and are in a position where they no longer have to sell.

For more information about quick sale property available in the Canary Islands, click here:

Work continues to go at an amazing pace at Tortuga Beach Resort and Spa, on the beautiful island of Sal, in Cape Verde as the latest selection of pictures show.

The construction is expected to be completed in December 2010 and there are only 3 villas left for sale. Owing to the financial climate, the villas have been heavily discounted and are available at

Calling all cheese lovers!

For the first time in its history, the Guild of Fine Foods will hold the World Cheese Awards outside the U.K. Starting on September 30 until October 3rd, 140 expert tasters and 3,000 products from all over the world will go to the Auditorio Alfredo Kraus in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria for an international exhibition with more than 300 participants.

At the competition in Dublin last year the Canary Islands won Best Cheese of the World, a cured goats cheese with paprika which was submitted by the Dairy Cooperative of Arico in Tenerife, the islands then went on to win another 15 awards in various categories.
“The World Cheese Awards are the cheese Olympics, the single event that unites the cheese world. It offers producers the opportunity to compete on a global stage where the prestige of winning Gold, Silver or Bronze can impact on sales enormously. In October 2009, at the invitation of the Canary Islands Government, the world

This gorgeous 2 bed villa, recently renovated to an extremely high standard is in Playa del Ingles, Gran Canaria, on a small complex, and is very quite.
Shops, bars and the Yumbo Center are just 5 minutes walk away as are the Sand Dunes of Maspalomas.

The Villa has a large lounge, with an American Style kitchen that lmatches the furniture in the lounge, some of it has been hand made by the owner.
Next to the lounge is a small single bedroom with a patio door leading onto the garden. The family bathroom, has a double size walk in shower, new sink, toilet etc.

The main bedroom is a large size double and one wall is taken up with floor to ceiling wardrobes, and storage.

The property has Internet, Phone, and Satellite TV and comes Fully Furnished.

To the front of the property there is a large covered terrace that stretches along the width of the property and a garden, which is mainly grass with some flowerbeds.

All this is available for just

So, first we had Elton John, then Rod Stewart decided that Tenerife was THE place to perform and, as if they weren’t enough, now Glora Estefan has announced dates for Tenerife and Gran Canaria as part of what is, allegedly, her last Tour.

The “Queen of Latin Pop” will perform on July 25th 2009in La Palmas Gran Canaria at the Estadio Gran Canaria and the Centro Insular de Atletismo in Tenerife on September 19th 2009.

She is bringing her equally famous band, The Miami Sound Machine with her and she has promised to perform her latest record “90 MIllas” as well as all of her biggest hits, both old and new.

Tickets for her concerts are available from www.elcorteingles.es. and also from www.generaltickets.com

Is recently separated Katie Price about to lose two more of her playmates??? Ex (?) boyfriend Scott Sullivan and friend Yianni Melitsis of DPM ( de puta madre), international D.J. with residency in Athens, Brighton and playing Ibiza this summer, have been spending the past week in Fuerteventura scouting out locations for a new home on the gorgeous island with Horizon Property Group.

Not only have the best buddies been house hunting, they sampled the surf big style when they played long and hard at Str8up Surf School, the best surfing club in Fuerteventura. Scott has been friends with the owner, Danny Seales, ex British windsurfing and kite surfing world champion, for years so the guys spent a huge amount on time catching up and playing on the waves.

Was this just a holiday to get away from poor Katie, or the start on new beginings? Only time will tell…..