Like a whirpool, it never ends Turning off the GC-2  onto the GC-160 and a familiar earworm from my student Read More

Arinaga Tour guide We hadn’t been to Arinaga for a while. So it was great to be shown around semi-forgotten Read More

Waking up on Las Palmas de Gran Canaria’s AM There’s nothing like a walk along the Avenida Maritima to renew Read More

La Berlanga, Canarian Badlands Shooting the colourful landscape of La Berlanga for your visual pleasure, I half-expect Martin Sheen’s Kit Read More

Cactualdea Park: the perfect pit stop We’re humans, not machines. But when we’re hiking, we need a break every now and Read More

In our beautiful neighbourhood The other day we ran into a fellow expat. She asked us where we lived in the city and we replied, Read More

The last resort West of Puerto de Mogan, there isn’t another holiday spot. It’s the end of the line. A Read More

Do you like to get out and about on your travels? At Gran Canaria Local, we travel the length and breadth of Read More

Day in, day out My daily routine has changed somewhat since I penned my Parque Doramas post. The paternal grandmother Read More

Road kill Walking along the GC-200 to the Cruz de Tasartico from La Aldea de San Nicolás is one uphill Read More

Gran Canaria’s lake district Actually, Gran Canaria doesn’t do lakes. But it’s home to 69 reservoirs. Many of these, including Read More

Enjoy the silence The very antithesis of Gran Canaria’s average resort, San Felipe is a north-coast beach not many bother Read More

Beyond Gran Canaria’s resorts Most tourists to the island head south from the airport rather than north. To resorts such Read More

Day trippers My fellow passengers on Global’s 311 bus line which travels from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria to Santa Read More

The west way The GC-2 is my escape route. Offering a way out from Las Palmas, a city, that despite Read More

Bucketing it down in San Cristobal What’s the story in Las Palmas? Well, today it’s a rainy day – indeed Read More

The Holy Trinity Church and Rome Where Las Palmas de Gran Canaria’s Calle de Rafael Ramírez meets Calle de Brasil, Read More