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Andrea Montgomery - Tenerife Insider

In 2003, trading high heels and a fast car for flip flops and a Fiat Punto, Andrea arrived on Tenerife from Stockport with a container of furniture and a quest for adventure. Freelance travel and feature writer, blogger, copywriter and co-author of Real Tenerife Island Drives and Going Native in Tenerife; Andrea lives in Puerto de la Cruz with Jack and a white cat with attitude, no tail and a penchant for Greek yoghurt.

Jack Montgomery - Tenerife Insider

In 2003 author, feature writer, blogger, and photographer, Jack Montgomery swapped working in an office overlooking the Theatre of Dreams in Manchester for working from home overlooking banana plantations in North Tenerife. Since then meticulous research into the island's culture (e.g. staying out at fiestas till dawn, eating odd looking things with tentacles & dressing as a grieving widow) has led to two books, 'Real Tenerife Island Drives' & 'Going Native in Tenerife', magazine and website articles and various blogs.

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Going Native in Tenerife

There are only two ways you can get to know Tenerife as well as Andy and Jack Montgomery do. You can either move here and spend the next six years treading the streets of every town and village, trekking along goat trails in the mountains, partying at fiestas until dawn and then spend thousands of hours writing it all down...or you can read Going Native in Tenerife.

Not so much a book as a personal tour guide, Going Native in Tenerife shows you the best places to stay, eat, drink, lay your beach towel, enjoy a view, disco 'til dawn and experience the best of the island's fiestas in 35 different towns and villages across the island.

From explaining why it is that even Spanish speakers struggle to understand the local dialect, to dispelling some of the myths about its north versus south weather and from its swarming resort beaches, to its isolated cave settlements, Going Native uncovers an island full of surprises.

Plus you'll find masses of useful hints, tips and anecdotes about Tenerife, like why Wallace and Gromit should move here; how Nelson very carelessly lost his right arm in Santa Cruz; where to get the best Venezuelan fried corn cakes and how the island appeared on Shakespeare's pay slip.

So whether you're coming for the booze or the beach, the sun or the scenery, the culture or the clubbing, you'll need Going Native in Tenerife to help you find it. And if none of that rings your bell, it's something to read on the beach while you're tanning your back.

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