Spotlight On: Martin Schofield
Martin Schofield is generally tucked away behind the drums in the Band of Gypsies Lanzarote. Julie Helliwell met up with him to hear more about his musical career.
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Recipe Of The Month
A vivid, multicoloured type-print of flavours and textures on a plate, Antonio Chicón’s “all-terrain” fruit salad is the perfect celebratory dish for a St Valentine’s dinner, a wedding feast or a carnival battery-charger. The salad also makes use of seasonal ingredients such as strawberries and wrinkled passion fruit, and is covered in a spiced aphrodisiac […]
Drink Drivers Nabbed
1.7% of random alcohol and drug tests carried out by Guardia Civil officers in the weeks before Christmas turned out positive. Over 168,000 random tests were done, and 1,606 drivers tested positive for alcohol, while 1,348 were discovered to be under the influence of drugs. Cannabis was the most common drug, with cocaine and amphetamines […]
Diesel Tax
The Spanish government are planning to introduce a diesel tax that will raise €38 for every thousand litres of fuel sold. Once hailed as a solution to emissions, diesel fuel has now been classed as highly contaminant, and diesel vehicles have already been banned from several large city centres. The new Spanish tax is intended […]
Accidents Down
Road traffic deaths in Spain fell by 7.6% to 1,098 in 2019, despite an increase in the amount of cars and journeys across the nation. 4,398 people overall required hospital attention after an accident. Spain’s Interior Minister, Fernando Grande- Marlaska presented the figures last month, saying that although he welcomed the positive trend, the total […]
Getting Back in Shape
Coach Ian Kerr reports on the healthy youth rugby scene that can be found every Saturday morning at Playa Honda. The Christmas festivities meant a pause in the calendar for the Lanzarote Rugby School. However, with the New Year and Kings’ Day behind us, training started afresh on the 11th January. With renewed vigour, the […]
Spain’s One-Point Champs
After passing the halfway mark of the season the Rojillos (The Reds) are in 14th spot and only three points clear of the relegation positions in the Tercera Division (Fourth Tier). Lanzarote have only been defeated five times in this campaign and there are just four clubs who have bettered this. The problem lies with […]
Memories of Salt
Yaiza Ayuntamiento has published a teaching guide for families and schools to mark the 100th anniversary of the death of Lanzarote’s most famous poet, Víctor Fernández Gopar “El Salinero” (The Saltmaker). The teaching guide is introduced by two microscopic pink algae called Duna and Liella who live in the Salinas de Janubio, and the guide […]
Face to Face: Charmaine Arbouin
Charmaine Arbouin is the British Consul for Andalusia and the Canary Islands. Based in Málaga, she covers the regions of Spain with by far the largest concentration of British residents. We pulled her to one side for a quick chat.
Face to Face: Hugh Elliot
If you’re a British citizen under the age of 47 you will, by the time you read this magazine, no longer be a citizen of the European Union for the first time in your life.