Tias is not widely known to visitors to Lanzarote and is generally just somewhere you pass through on the island’s main road, the LZ2. However, it is an important administrative centre and the municipality of Tías incorporates the largest of Lanzarote’s tourist resorts, Puerto del Carmen. Formerly called Las Tias de Fajardo, meaning Farjado’s Aunts,…
In 2017 Lanzarote has had a total of 790 winners of Certificates of Excellence. They are broken down as follows: 132 accommodation, 148 attractions and a whooping 510 eateries. Travellers submit reviews for a period of 12 months and to qualify for the award, a business must maintain an overall rating of at least four out of five, have a…
Hopefully you won’t need any of the following, but if you do need emergency numbers, help or advice whilst in Lanzarote here it is! Emergency call 112 The local emergency telephone number for police, ambulance & fire is 112. There is a smartphone app called FRESS112 that you can download to your mobile phone. Users…
I was speaking to a reader the other day who has been coming to the island for many years and who has never visited Arrecife. I gave him some tips about how to get there and what to do, so I thought I’d share them with you all. I recommend he visit on a Saturday…
Sally and I recently decided to take on a Lanzarote walk from Mala to Haría incorporating the Presa de Mala, the dam high above the village, which Miguel wrote about here. I have driven up there many times, usually taking friends who didn’t even know it existed, but I wanted to see what was beyond the…
You don’t have to be a professional photographer to create great images of Lanzarote. But taking photos is part of many people’s holidays. The unique landscape of the island just begs to be captured, from the almost velvet textured appearance of the mountains at Femés to the dramatic, rugged cliffs of Famara and the wildly…
We’re not really a seasonal destination, but it is true that most people choose to come here in the summer months, so we thought we’d share some reasons to book a winter holiday in Lanzarote, for those of you who might not have considered one previously. We’ve just returned to Lanzarote from a few days…
We’re not really a seasonal destination, but it’s true that most people choose to come here in the summer months, so we thought we’d share some reasons to book a winter in Lanzarote, for those of you who might not have considered one previously. We’ve just returned to Lanzarote from a few days in the…
We hire a lot of cars to our readers every year, and increasingly, we’re being asked about Sat Nav. Unless you are hiring an expensive model, the cars here generally don’t have satellite navigation, but here’s one easy way for you to get effective Sat Nav for the island on your phone or tablet, without having to…
Seeing a Doctor in the Canary islands: The British Consulates in Gran Canaria and Tenerife have written this practical guide to receiving medical assistance in the Canary Islands. They spend a lot of their time assisting British nationals who find themselves in difficult circumstances when it could have so easily been avoided. NEED TO SEE…