The Canary Islands
Ten Top Beaches in the Canary Islands
For anyone who’s about to send their endorphins into overdrive by booking their beach holidays, here is the Buzz Trips guide to ten of the top beaches in The Canary Islands. […]
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Food & drink
Traditional Food on La Gomera, Almogrote
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… […]
Hiking
The Best of What to See & Do on La Gomera
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. […]
Food & drink
Miel de Palma, The Sweet Taste of La Gomera
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. […]
Hotels
The Pick of Hotels and Accommodation on La Gomera
Having visited La Gomera on many occasions this is our pick of the best hotels, apartments and pensions around the island. […]
Hiking
Walking on La Gomera
The hikers’ Canary Island of choice, La Gomera has long attracted the walking stick wielding brigade and one look at its terrain confirms why. […]
Hiking
Choosing the Best Place to Stay on The Canary Island of La Gomera
Contrary to popular travel mythology, La Gomera isn’t a tourist free, natural paradise that is only populated by local farmers who communicate using a whistling language called silbo… […]
Asturias
Utopian Vision or Fantastical Folly, The Laboral City of Culture in Gijón
Despite its age, there is something not quite of this world about the Laboral Cuidad de Cultura. It is pleasing to the eye for sure, but there is a strangeness to it… […]
Food & drink
5 Steps to Learning to Love Olives
All you need for this is an olive-hater, a bowl of olives (green preferably) and a crowd of onlookers who will be suitably amazed when this experiment is proven to work. […]
Asturias
Cabrales and Gamoneu, Seductively Good Blue Cheeses from Asturias
After a feast that included scorpion fish pate, hake tortilla and navajas (razor fish) I was faced with a plate of Cabrales – one of the most famous of blue cheeses in Asturias… […]
Food & drink
An Alternative Taste of Pitlochry in the Scottish Highlands
Pitlochry is an immaculate little town that must have first time visitors to the Highlands of Scotland drooling like a heilan’ coo when they set eyes on its ridiculously pretty streets. […]
Africa
Trekking in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco
The intensity of the sun strengthens in direct relation to our ascent, and with continual worried glances over our shoulders for the non-appearance of our mule with our water supply, we ration sips from the small bottle to appease our parched throats. […]
Asia
Telaga Tujuh in Langkawi, Seven Waterfalls & a Bad Ass Monkey
We realised all too late that rather than seeing as amigos travelling the same path, we were a threat to his particular patch of Langkawi forest. Just as the penny slowly dropped, the howling mad macaque turned, barked and charged. […]
Hotels
Hotel Barceló Santiago, Puerto Santiago, Tenerife
Fronted by the neighbouring Canary Island of La Gomera which provides the stage for the sun’s nightly adieu performance, and occupying the best seats on the island for views of the monolithic cliffs of Los Gigantes, when it comes to fabulous Tenerife coastal vistas, the four star Hotel Barceló Santiago holds pole position. […]
Hotels
Iberostar Grand Hotel Mencey
The Grand Hotel Mencey is situated in a peach of a position beside Las Ramblas. Opposite is one of the highlights of Santa Cruz, Parque García Sanabria. It’s only a few minutes walk to the main shopping areas and about 20 minutes from the port. […]