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81Mother Nature dresses up for Christmas in Tenerife
Tenerife is perhaps not a place that springs to mind when you think about Christmas but in fact it is an ideal place to spend the festive season. And not just because of the countless bars and cheap prices...
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58Nature makes her comeback from the fires
If you have been out and about in the areas of Tenerife that were badly hit by the forest fires in the summer you may well have seen how just a few months of time have allowed Mother Nature time to heal her...
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63Thirty hubs I did for the 30 hubs in 30 days hub challenge
Before I started the 30 hubs in 30 days hub challenge I thought I couldn't find sufficient time to devote to it but then realising how often I had been posting new articles I thought I might as well give it a...
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56Why I can fill the shoes in question
Some years back I got an interview to be a reporter for the Tenerife Sun that needed a new writer after they had lost a member of staff by writing a description of how I could fill the shoes of a successful...
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78The Tenerife butterfly and moth rescue team
In past issues of the Tenerife Sun I have written about my ongoing project to help increase the numbers of the beautiful Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) on the island, and I am very happy to say that I...
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69Butterfly farming on a balcony
Earlier this year I wrote about my one-man conservation project to help the Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) here on Tenerife and I managed to rear nine to their glorious adult form feeding them on plants...
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84Erjos to Masca - an uphill-downhill-uphill walk
I have often seen a party of trekkers and a guide get off the bus in Erjos and set off up a footpath and I wondered where it led. Looking on a map, as the crow flies it appeared that over the mountain lay...
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71So much more to see than just great big cliffs
Los Gigantes is a very popular resort village on the south-west coast of Tenerife and it is famous for and named after its "giant" cliffs. Of course, most people come to see the cliffs towering some 600m high...
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65How 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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73Where are all the ladybirds?
There are supposed to be at least seven species of ladybird on Tenerife, and according to David and Zoë Bramwell's excellent book, Historia Natural de las Islas Canarias, one of these is very common. I have...
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