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76More than just a Dragon Tree in Icod de los Vinos
Icod de los Vinos is a town I love and the first time I went there it was to see its famous thousand-year-old Dragon Tree but there is far more that fascinates me about the place. For a start there is a...
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74No wonder they call it San Juan de la Rambla
San Juan de la Rambla has an intriguing ring to its name I think, and for me conjures up visions of swashbuckling pirate films. It is a village I so often pass through on the bus from Icod to Puerto de la Cruz...
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79The mysterious masonic gardens of La Orotava
In the town of La Orotava in the north of Tenerife in the Canary Islands there is a mysterious and very beautiful masonic garden containing the Mausoleum of the Marqués (Marquis) de la Quinta Roja, Diego de...
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61Botanical gardens ruled by a strangler
If David Bellamy came to Tenerife there is one place he would make a beeline for and that's the Botanic Gardens in Puerto de la Cruz. It is a place I have made many visits to and it's the nearest thing to Kew...
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66Walking upwards for Christmas
Unlike in the UK, December in Tenerife is still often sunny and warm by day and ideal for long country walks and I had been thinking of investigating Tierra del Trigo, a village I haven't heard much about but...
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77How I made a meal for the butterflies
Up on the higher parts of Mt Teide is like being on the moon or on the planet Mars. Miles of red barren rocks and vast expanses of dry sandy volcanic ground with the peak of the highest mountain in Spain...
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