Being Uncool
Highway to Hell, Me a Scooter and Lanzarote
My second attempt in a zillion years at mastering a two-wheeled mean machine (i.e. scooter) resulted in as much humiliation as my first did when I was eighteen. […]
Lanzarote
Food & drink
Restaurant Verde Mar, A Lanzarote Secret
An artistic yet rustic interior and a menu that included traditional Spanish and Canario dishes combined with some imaginative offerings like sea bass with a Thai and lime glaze drew us in. […]
Europe
French Flair at the Bistro Restaurant Montmartre in Costa Teguise
Set on a quiet road behind the main street in Costa Teguise, Montmartre Bistro is a little slice of Parisian bohemian life in a sun-soaked Lanzarote resort. […]
Lanzarote
The Blog Trip Model That Won’t Cost Tourist Boards the Earth
Tourist Boards don’t need massive resources to plan and implement innovative blog/press trips. In fact it’s possible to host regular blog trips that won’t be a drain on either financial or staff resources. […]
Food & drink
The Art of Lanzarote Wines
Lanzarote’s award winning Malvasía wines can hold their heads up when it comes to quality, and given the difficulty of their birth, that’s quite some achievement. […]
Europe
Learning to Stand Up Paddle in Lanzarote
Spending a couple of hours learning to master the basics of Stand Up Paddle (SUP), the new board sport that has exploded on to the surf scene like a tsunami, taught me three things. […]
Europe
Discover Costa Teguise in Lanzarote, Outdoor Living and Creative Cuisine
Although developed as a tourist resort, Costa Teguise on Lanzarote’s south east coast has a pleasing small town community feel to it, possibly as a result of two factors. […]
Food & drink
La Peskera Restaurant, Costa Teguise
It was a delicious dilemna. We had been invited by local restaurateur César López Bullón to dine at one of his César Restaurants in Costa Teguise… […]
Europe
César Manrique, Made in Lanzarote
Like the creator of his own Universe, Manrique’s hand is in the very landscape of Lanzarote; the uniform, low, white buildings that stand against the black, volcanic terrain like images from an old scrap book of some distant, African land… […]
Europe
A Different View of The Canary Island of Lanzarote
Anyone who dismisses the most easterly of the Canary Islands as a purpose built, package holiday hell obviously has the observational skills of a blind albino cave crab. […]
Gran Canaria
A Different View of the Canary Islands
Tacky, touristy and terrible if you’re a discerning traveller. Anyone who still believes that about The Canary Islands has either been going to the wrong bits or needs to change what paper/blogs they read. […]
Lanzarote
The Hidden Lagoon in Alegranza, the Secret Canary Island
The land is twisted and warped; in some parts there are yawning cavities that look as though a mythical giant has taken a shovel to the maroon earth, in others shallow caves are protected by jagged volcanic teeth. It is an anarchic landscape… […]
Hotels
Sands Beach Resort, Lanzarote
Hugging the eastern edge of the family resort of Costa Teguise and nestling on its own lagoon complete with golden beach, Sands Beach Resort is the perfect getaway destination. […]
Lanzarote
The Desert Island of La Graciosa
It’s strange the nonsense that can pop into your head, but the first reaction my brain had to the vision of the ruddy volcanic cone rising above a strip of pale golden sand was to play Bali Ha’i from musical South Pacific. […]
Lanzarote
Landscapes of Lanzarote, Volcanic Vineyards
If Luke Skywalker had gone into the wine producing business instead of taking on the Empire, I suspect his vineyard would have looked something like this. […]