Tenerife Tattle

Tenerife Small Businesses – Can Your site be Found in Search Engines?

Julie — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:46:53 +0000

George Gray of The Tenerife Property Guide kindly invited me to write an article for him on the basics of SEO (Search Engine Optimisation). In cases where a business owner decides to leap into the breach and design his own website – something that is becoming easier every day – it is quite normal for search [...]

Fear of Swine Flu in Tenerife

Julie — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:24:32 +0000

I posted about the first two cases of H1N1 in Tenerife some weeks ago and I think because of that a lot of people are finding their way to the door of Tenerife Tattle with related search terms like H1N1 Tenerife, or swine flu in Tenerife. As far as I know the latest head count – [...]

Currency Exchange – Sending Money to Tenerife

Julie — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:19:42 +0000

I’ve never had to transfer a large amount of money from the UK to Tenerife but it is one of those things that you may need to do one of these days. Although the most common reason for sending money overseas is to buy property that is certainly not the only time you might need to [...]

I Swear Childbirth is a Pain

Julie — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:18:16 +0000

Two interesting and related items caught my eye in the newspaper this morning. The first says swearing helps you withstand pain. No effing surprises there then. On Saturday I was on top of my daughter’s stilted bed which is about four feet off the floor. In a rare bout of redecoration the kids’ room is getting a [...]

Tenerife – July 31 – Carlos Baute y Marta Sànchez

Julie — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:32:30 +0000

I am surprised that this Youtube clip of Carlos Baute and Marta Sánchez singing Colgando En Tus Manos still works given the battering my daughter gives it every day. In fact we all make quite an alarming racket murdering the lyrics out loud… If she was just a little bit older I would love to take [...]

Tenerife Property – Bargain Buy in La Caleta

Julie — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:29:00 +0000

I’ve received a couple of emails lately from people who would like to sell their Tenerife property. Don’t know why they are sending to me as the blog is called Tenerife TATTLE not Tenerife Tatler, Jings! I have my doubts that most of TT’s readers have two ha’pennies to rub together never mind a couple [...]

Tenerife Wine Bus

Julie — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:22:18 +0000

La Guagua del Vino or Wine Bus might sound like something you fall off after missing a couple of meetings with your AA buddy but actually it is a scholarly tour round the vinyards for those who want to learn something and not at all intended as a vehicular version of a booze cruise. There are [...]

Check Out Ryanair’s Add-On Charges

Julie — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:09:48 +0000

A couple of months ago I wrote an article regarding the sneaky surcharges that airlines impose which in effect make a joke of their promoted prices. Surprise, surprise, at the time I wrote that article about airline surcharges, Ryanair was showing a great deal of creativity and flair in the number of ways they [...]

Ryanair – The Cheap (and Nasty) Airline

Julie — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:08:30 +0000

A punter recently wrote a one-liner in to a UK newspaper which said something like, ‘In its latest cost-cutting exercise, Ryanair has announced that the pilot will be chosen at random from amongst the passengers.’ Famous as they are for tawdry penny-saving schemes (pay 2 pee, carry on hand luggage) their latest effort is so tacky [...]

Dogs in Cars

Julie — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:55:54 +0000

There can’t be many worse things for an animal than to be left by its beloved owner in a car on sweltering hot summer day to slowly bake to death. You would think a trained dog handler would know better but not in Nottinghamshire where two police dogs were found dead in their handler’s car. [...]