A Year after the Forest Fires on La Gomera
In 2012 we walked across a decent chunk of the Canary Island of La Gomera. We did so a couple of months before devastating forest fires swept across… […]
In 2012 we walked across a decent chunk of the Canary Island of La Gomera. We did so a couple of months before devastating forest fires swept across… […]
The irony is that it’s not the terrain that makes walking on La Gomera potentially difficult – well, it is in so much as you’re nearly always either going up… […]
Rural Hotel Ibo Alfaro is like the Dowager Countess of Hermigua; a genteel icon of a simpler, grander age who welcomes hikers into her ample and bejewelled bosom to soothe them with her surroundings, replenish them with her breakfasts and send them out into the world fully informed… […]
As we turn east towards San Sebastián the landscape beside the road transforms from simply being arid to apocalyptic, with a sea of twisted black… […]
La Gomera’s Parador has 112 rooms but feels intimate. The good sized rooms fit with the colonial style with polished wooden floors and antique furnishings. […]
Anyone who has ever visited La Gomera will know that its rugged features are hiking perfection but by the laws of yin and yang, they’re a nightmare to commute. […]
Vallehermoso is a sleepy rural town below the imposing Roque Cano that is surrounded by tiny agricultural terraces, towering peaks and a landscape ripe for exploration on foot. […]
A restored, 19th century town house, Hotel Tamahuche is all mudejar-styled wooden ceilings, oak floors and wooden window seats and is the perfect place to kick off the hiking boots and melt into its rural tranquillity. […]
When Inntravel sent us the itinerary for their walking in La Gomera holiday that they wanted us to update and amend, we knew we were in for a challenge. What we didn’t know, was that it would be such an incredible week. […]
I’ve eaten them more times than I can remember; so many times in fact that the act of spreading the rich red or glistening green paste on the obligatory bread in Canarian restaurants has become an almost subconscious semi-automated act. […]
On La Gomera you’re either going up or you’re going down, so six days of checking walking routes for Inntravel was an opportunity to get in some serious barranco hiking… […]
Alomogrote is traditionally made by using a pestle and mortar to mix very mature hard cheese, garlic, pepper, chillies, ripe tomatoes, pepper and olive oil until it… […]
Everyone who knows La Gomera will wax lyrical about its natural and unspoiled beauty. But what is there to actually do and see on the island? Here are 10 suggestions. […]
It’s worth running the gauntlet of excess baggage charges to take home a bottle of La Gomera’s palm honey, in fact, it’s worth taking home two because I can almost guarantee that it won’t stay in the kitchen cupboard for long. […]
Having visited La Gomera on many occasions this is our pick of the best hotels, apartments and pensions around the island. […]
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