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

Cock and balls Tener cojones. To have balls is a popular expression in industrial Spanish, translating as to be courageous. Read More

White light/white heat Do not adjust your monitor. The sun really was that retina-burning bright on our recent visit to Guigui, Read More

Traditionally, since the advent of tourism on Gran Canaria in the 1960s, tourists have stayed in hotels. But if you Read More

Pilgrims’ progress We all know where the Camino de Santiago ends. At Santiago de Compostela cathedral. In Galicia. Where the Read More