We’re often asked by people staying in villas, or those who are planning to be on the island for several months: “Where do locals do their food shopping?” The resorts are populated with small supermarkets where you can get most of the essentials, but they are relatively expensive and lack a good range of products,…
We don’t get bad weather often in Lanzarote, but it does happen. Here are some ideas for things to do in Lanzarote when the weather isn’t up to lying on the beach or sitting on a bar terrace watching the world go by: Go for a walk! All three resorts have fabulous promenades that run…
We recently had the pleasure of being shown around the site of the new boutique luxury hotel by Sales Director Marga de Luis González. La Isla y El Mar (The Island and the ocean) is due to open in the spring, and is on a site of an old accommodation complex called Balcón del Mar,…
The siesta is a Spanish institution, which sadly is beginning to die out. It originally came about as a way for workers to get out of the sun during the hottest part of the day – long before air conditioning was widespread. The idea was to split the working day into a morning session, have…
Back in October we reported on heavy rain and winds here in Lanzarote. Anyone following our page on Facebook will have seen images and videos of how the heavy deluge has flowed down the mountains and out to sea and they will have read how the island’s infrastructure struggled to cope. But Lanzarote is famous for it’s…
Lanzarote is full of wonderful tourist attractions, and a quick web search will quickly list them for you, with all the information you could possibly want to know about them. But what about the secret places only the locals know about? The places you won’t find in any tourist guide? You’d be surprised how many…