El Hierro
The AI view of the Canary Islands
It took me five minutes to write the destination descriptions below. That’s because I didn’t write them, ChatGPT did. This is the AI view of the Canary Islands. […]
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Food & drink
Pass the salsa, sauces from the Canary Islands
Some mojo picóns can be wowser hot, something of an anomaly in mainland Spanish cuisine, but then Canarian gastronomy owes as much to its fiery relatives to the west as it does its forebears to the north. […]
El Hierro
By the Time Dawn Breaks, the magic of the Canary Islands
By the Time Dawn Breaks is a story within a story. A young man seeking an off-the-beaten track spot on Tenerife in which to lick his emotional wounds stumbles across a mysterious journal. Within its pages, he discovers a fantastical account revealing an extraordinary side to the Canary Islands. […]
Fuerteventura
The prettiest towns in the Canary Islands
The irony isn’t lost on me that in the same week I wrote about not liking travel lists on my personal website, I’m positively referencing a travel list on this one, in this case the prettiest towns in the Canary Islands. […]
Food & drink
Top Ten Tapas in the Canary Islands
Tapas are a mainland Spanish way of eating when socialising, but it is also easy to find tapas in the Canary Islands, and tapas aimed at the palates of a local population more than a visiting one. […]
Food & drink
Michelin recommended restaurants in the Canary Islands
Whilst the focus of this is ostensibly about Michelin restaurants in the Canary Islands it isn’t just about Michelin recommendations, or exclusively about the Canary Islands for that matter. […]
Europe
Confused about the cuisine, gastronomy in the Canary Islands
A study into what visitors to the Canary Islands thought about the food they experienced has thrown up some interesting and illuminating findings. […]
Food & drink
Finding craft beers in the Canary Islands
When we returned to the Canary Islands we stopped ordering sunny Dorada cervezas in the western islands and light and frisky Tropical in the eastern ones and started looking for something with more of a swaggering personality. […]
Europe
Tsunamis and erupting volcanoes in the Canary Islands
There was bemusement in Spanish language press where the UK gutter press is often seen as something of a joke, not a particularly funny one. The Tenerife Tourism Board sent out a press release to counter what they referred to as “a number of misleading reports in the UK media”. […]
Europe
Why locals don’t feel cold as much as Brits in the Canary Islands
When I used to tell friends that on Tenerife we lit a fire every year at night during January and February they’d be surprised, especially when I told them it was 14C. […]
El Hierro
The colonial charm of the Canary Islands
Quite a few years ago, when we were wearing particularly thick rose-tinted glasses, we had a discussion with a Canarian friend about the beauty of the Canary Islands. Although she loved the islands she took […]
Europe
The problem with walking routes in the Canary Islands
The first time we fell foul of the Canary Islands’ anarchic approach to marking walking routes was on La Gomera when a couple of signposts on one trail weren’t where they should have been. […]
Hiking
Walking across the Canary Islands on the GR131
A few years ago we decided one of our objectives would be to walk across the Canary Islands following the GR131 and staying at rural hotels… […]
Checking In
The best and worst of Paradors in the Canary Islands
We’ve stayed in all of the ones in Canary Island Paradors and each has thrown up a variety of experiences that weren’t always consistent with the others. […]
Europe
The best fish and seafood to try in the Canary Islands
On every Canary Island there are excellent fish and seafood restaurants serving the catches of the day, prepared simply and deliciously. […]