I just don’t get Jazz, you know. To me it’s like listening to a cat with saucepan lids tied to its tail getting scalded over a pan of boiling porridge but hey… to each his own, right? I’ll stick to the Chinese Opera if you don’t mind.

But if you are into Jazz, then Arona council have got a treat lined up for you this weekend. Hie thyself and several like minded friends over to the Plaza de la Iglesia de Los Cristianos where on Friday 8th you can hear Guitarr Juice and Funkfarria strut their stuff.

(The video below is of Funkfarria playing ¨No Digas Nada¨ a Liquid Soul Band original -  credit to Kamenup for the Youtube upload.  Kamenup has uploaded several other videos of the Arona Jazz Festival so worth a look if you are a jazz fan).

On Saturday 9th it is the turn of Manolo Rodiguez on Jazz Guitar and Ann Peters doing her NU Groove.

III Arona Jazz Festival

Friday May 8th 2009 – 21:00 hrs
Guitarr Juice
Funkfarria

Saturday 9th May – 21:00 hrs
Manolo Rodiguez Jazz Guitar
Anne Peters Nu Groove

If you have ever wished that you could fly, if maybe as the plane banks over Tenerife, that you could just take over the controls and bring it in to a safe landing all by yourself, well now you can. Virtually.

Here is a review of Sim Giant’s Canary Islands Flight Simulator which they created because they said, “…it is wonderful pretty area with lot of tourism visiting this place.”

(A darkly cynical voice inside me wonders if it is also because Rodeo Airport Tenerife North is the location of the Pan AM / KLM collision which remains one of the worst airline disasters in history – only superceded by the toll of airplane related casualties suffered on September 11 2001).

Reviewer Bill Stack notes that features include:

• Detailed renditions of Tenerife North airport (GCXO), Fuerteventura Airport (GCFV), and El Hierro Airport (GCHI)
• Highly detailed scenery of the airport and its near surroundings
• Realistic runway and taxiway lighting
• All navigation systems
• Vehicular traffic on all major roads
• Numerous static and dynamic scenery objects
• Full night textures and night-lighting effects
• High resolution mesh terrain

Bill should know. He is the author of several books about flight simulation, a regular author in flight-sim magazines, and a contributor to Flight Sim Com. His website is www.topskills.com.