4 irresistible ways to experience Lanzarote in April After a long, cold winter, you’re probably yearning for some sunshine, to breathe fresh Atlantic air and the salt water on your skin. And there’s no better place to find all this than Lanzarote in April. While the Canary Islands are known as the land of eternal […]
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Lanzarote’s Viewpoints – Perfect Places at Sunset
Lanzarote’s Viewpoints – Perfect Places at Sunset What is it about the sunset that is so hypnotic? Maybe it’s the fire traced by the sun through the sky every time it goes down. Maybe it’s because in a land as low and surrounded by sea as Lanzarote, the horizon seems almost within reach. The ideal […]
The Culture of the Sea (or how to go with the flow of the tide)
The Culture of the Sea (or how to go with the flow of the tide) Coastal people. Fishermen. Sailors. Artists. Surfers. Canoeists. Carpenters. Worshippers of limpets. Pirate fleers. Lanzarote is sea-faring people, eating from the quay. Come and go with the flow! It embraces the whole island and tempers its climate. It’s both party and pantry. The sea is omnipresent: it’s on your skin and on your […]
Lanzarote’s blue lung: the wealth of its underwater world
Lanzarote’s blue lung: the wealth of its underwater world It’s in our DNA. We are water. Life emerged in the depths of the ocean millions of years ago and Lanzarote reminds us of this every second. Did you know that you are in the largest Marine Reserve in Europe? Take a deep breath and […]
On Holiday on Your Own Island: 7 Plans for Rediscovering Lanzarote during Easter Week
The French novelist Marcel Proust once said that a true journey isn’t about seeking new landscapes “but in seeing with new eyes” when looking at the landscapes that surround us. Are you up for it? We have some well-deserved rest days ahead of us, so let’s make the most of them. It’s probable that most of the 155,000 people living on Lanzarote would agree that it doesn’t take a lot to get the feeling […]
Tías, the land that enamoured a Nobel Prize laureate
Tías, the land that enamoured a Nobel Prize laureate José Saramago made this town his home for its calm, its colour and its light. Tourists love it for its wide, comfortable beaches and lovers of scuba diving and golf have it written down in their diaries. It’s worth asking yourself why a Nobel Prize winner […]