Are you an adrenaline junkie? Get your fix on holiday by parasailing on Gran Canaria. As we did with Canary WaterSports. We Read More

We may have gone local on Gran Canaria but we don’t assume you have or even want to. Which is why Read More

Life’s a beach Including Aguadulce, there are a grand total of 82 beaches on Gran Canaria. You can safely quote Read More

Ravine madness Barrancos (ravines), as in Barranco Guiniguada, dominate the landscape on Gran Canaria. For example, the quickest route to Read More

Gran Canaria Marathon, everyone’s a winner It was Monsieur Olympics, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, JFGI, who said: “The most important Read More

Father B-Ball Here stands Padre Claret. Taking pride of place in Vega de San Mateo, he should be known as Read More

Did you know that Las Palmas de Gran Canaria has its very own Garden City? Well, it does and it’s as Read More

Looking for things to do in Gáldar? No-one covers Gran Canaria’s municipalities in as much detail as us. Here’s our guide to one Read More

El Muelle shopping city I could have just as easily titled this post Cheesy Tourist Shot of Gran Canaria #1. Read More

Meeting McCarthy A couple of weeks ago I was interviewed by legendary journalist John McCarthy for Radio 4’s Saturday Live. The Read More

Central Parque San Telmo Sandwiched between the residential district of Arenales and the shopping area of Triana, Parque San Telmo’s Read More

Our Adventure Gran Canaria series began with a Sardina del Norte dive. It continues as we swop being, hyperbole alert, Read More

The tourism sector in the Canary Islands currently employs 35% of the Canarian population and accounts for up to a Read More

UD Las Palmas, support your local Back in the 60s, England’s Bobby Moore and wife starred in a TV ad Read More

Celtic connections This is La Culata’s football pitch. La Culata’s a hamlet in the heart of Gran Canaria where donkeys Read More

The birth of Gran Canaria Local It’s the first post of a new blog. Woop, and indeed, woop. Today, Mr Read More

Cactus garden Images can fool you, can’t they? For you’d think that I’d gone global rather than local. Snapping a Read More