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Where to see the La Palma volcano: the Tajogaite viewpoints
The volcano that erupted on La Palma in 2021 can be seen, and from close up. But the thing most people search for, walking up to the crater on your own, is not what is on offer. Here is what is, and where from.
The end of the boat without a licence: what changes on 1 October 2026
The five metre boat you can rent today with no paperwork stops being rentable that way on 1 October 2026. The private exemption stays, the rental one goes. What you need and what is left.
The Perro Maldito of Valsequillo: what it is and when to go
One night a year, Valsequillo switches off the lights of the entire town and lets the devil loose in the streets. That is not brochure language: it is a street show with over a hundred residents in it, and it grows out of one very specific detail on a carving from 1804.
The night Nelson lost his arm in Santa Cruz
Four days of assault, an unusually courteous surrender and a cannon the city credits with the shot. We separate the documented from the retold.
Camping in the Canaries: how the permit works, island by island
Almost everyone gets this backwards. Camping in the Canaries is not banned: there is a network of designated areas, they are free, and you need to apply in advance within a fairly specific window of days. Outside that, it is a fineable offence.
GR, PR and SL: how to read Canarian trail markings
Two rectangles, a cross and a painted elbow: three signs are enough to navigate any waymarked trail in the Canaries. And waymarked does not mean easy.
Traditional Canarian sports: what you are actually watching
Stay at a village fiesta long enough and you will end up in front of a circle of sand with two men gripping each other by the trousers, and nobody will explain a thing. Here is what you are looking at.
Silbo gomero: how you speak Spanish by whistling
Not a shepherds' code and not a separate language: it is Spanish, carried in whistles across entire ravines. How it works, how it nearly died and what saved it.
Diving and snorkelling in the Canary Islands
The water is at its warmest at the end of summer, which makes autumn the best season of the year for putting your head under. Here is what you need, what you do not need, where to go on each island, and the one thing that has to be taken seriously.