Tenerife has probably one of the worlds most bizarre tourist attractions, namely the Dragon Tree found at Icod de Los Vinos. I’m pretty sure that there can’t be many places in the world where a single tree is a tourist attraction, maybe one of the Great Red Wood’s or the ‘Timberland’ tree that can be found in America but that’s about it. I can’t think of many more.

Tenerife based rock band Meridian Zero have taken first prize (and €6000 in prize money) in the 20^th Bilbock festival. The festival is held every year in Bilbao Spain where 48 bands were selected from the entrants to perform in free concerts to the public.

Streets paved with delicate petals of such vibrant colours that they’d turn any rainbow in the vicinity green with envy; smiling people plying me with more food and wine than I could safely consume without doing a Monty Python's 'Meaning of Life'. It might sound as though I'd shuffled off this mortal coil and, through some administrative error, entered Nirvana, but I was somewhere far more accessible... La Orotava, for the Corpus Christi celebrations.