Food & drink
Review of La Placeta, Santa Cruz de la Palma’s Jazzy Traditional Restaurant
On the seafront side, La Placeta’s 18the century façade forms part of one of the biggest attractions of La Palma’s capital, Los Balcones… […]
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A Life Of Wine At Matías i Torres on La Palma
“The vines represent a connection to everything about our home and our history,” says Victoria. “Through them we are connected to the soil, the sea, the volcanic slopes and to our ancestors. The wine is a living embodiment of that bond.” […]
Hotels
Review of Hotel Las Olas, La Palma
The pastel coloured apartments that make up Las Olas are pleasing to the eye and the low-rise complex allows views to the verdant hills behind… […]
La Palma
Cigar Rolling in La Palma, the Cuba of the Canary Islands
This is exactly how I imagined a cigar rolling factory might look. It’s downtown Havana in rural La Palma. […]
Hiking
La Palma’s Guiding Lights
There is never any substitute for the mass of experience and knowledge about a place that is stored in the memories of those for whom a destination is their home and their livelihood… […]
Hiking
Lucky 13, The Marcos y Cordero Tunnels on La Palma
The previous day we’d trekked the hot and steamy Caldera de Taburiente; this route to the Marcos Y Cordero springs was a different animal altogether… […]
Hiking
Finding Rural Accommodation on La Palma
It’s the sort of place you dream about on cold, wet, dark winter afternoons when you’ve forgotten what it feels like to have the sun on your skin… […]
Hiking
Hiking La Caldera de Taburiente on La Palma
I emerge from behind a rock face to see him sitting, cross-legged on top of a basalt boulder ahead of me, his expressionless face watching… […]
La Palma
Discover La Palma in Photos
Considering it is known as La Isla Bonita, you’d think the Canary Island of La Palma would attract visitors by the Airbus load. But, despite boasting an… […]
La Palma
Visions of La Palma, The Shambolic Los Balcones of Santa Cruz de la Palma
They’re warped and uneven, their styles are all over the place and the rule of thumb as far as their colouring is concerned seems to be – you can use any shade you want as long as it’s not the same as your neighbour’s. […]
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. […]
Food & drink
Where the Rock Stars Hang Out, The Good Company’s Guide to Las Palmas on Gran Canaria
Like any city, if you want to see its most attractive aspects, it helps to have a local resident to show you around. If you want to discover the coolest parts of a city, it’s hard to beat a local who also happens to a member of a rock band. […]
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. […]
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. […]
El Hierro
How many Canary Islands are there?
The Canaries are made up of large islands, small islands (islets), and lumps of land protruding from the sea that ambiguously lie somewhere between being tiny islets and big rocks. […]