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La Cocotte, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria’s comfort food When Mr GCL was babysitting in año uno on GC, he Read More

Gran Canaria Business Week, it’s business time Mr Gran Canaria Local’s not really what you’d call an entrepreneur. Yet, we Read More

Trading places Gran Canaria style In San José the other day, we had a flashback. When we were young, we Read More

Floating like a butterfly, stinging like a bee It’s tripadvisor’s highest-rated restaurant in Tejeda. Spain-Holiday.com make it one of the Read More

The bridge We’re not one to stereotype, but we can’t help agreeing with one particular cliché. That the Spanish work Read More

Word play with La Macarena We play with words all day long. It’s what we call work. Yet, we were Read More

Global warming Rain or shine in our home town, and considering it’s the city with the most favourable climate worldwide Read More

Business class We’re chilling in the Elba Vecindario Aeropuerto, a four-star business and convention hotel we never imagined staying at. Read More

Gran Canaria beaches Gran Canaria’s a holiday island. So, it’s perfectly set up to accommodate families looking to have some Read More

Knowing ARC The ARC stands for Atlantic Rally for Cruisers. The brainchild of the World Cruising Club, it sees 200+ boats Read More

Las Tederas, escape to the country on GC Las Palmas de Gran Canaria’s Spain’s ninth-largest city. We live in the Read More

Playa del Cura, Gran Canaria Local’s on a beach hunt We first visited Playa del Cura on a bus trip Read More

City Sightseeing Las Palmas, come on and do the frog The ethos of the City Sightseeing Las Palmas de Gran Read More

Finca de Osorio, a great cure for homesickness Before moving to Gran Canaria, we lived at the east end of Read More

Valleseco, how green is your valley Heading home from Artenara, we pass the Mirador de los Pinos de Gáldar. Where Read More

In a dark place Artenara, as you will have learned from Gran Canaria’s last post, is Cave Central. This small Read More

Being Fred and Wilma Welcome to Bedrock. We’re staying at Casa Cueva El Mimo, one of five Artenatur cave houses. Read More