Once again, heavy rains caught much of Lanzarote by surprise, causing flash floods and torrential waters in drainage channels. 13.7 litres of water per square metre were recorded at the airport on the 18th April. First published in Gazette Life, May 1st 2020. For once the lockdown meant that traffic was less affected than usual, […]
Spain’s Employment Minister , Yolanda Diáz, has pledged to give special attention to the tourism sector and to affected regions such as the Canaries when considering the extension of Spain’s ERTE (furlough) schemes. As Spain faces the prospect of returning to the “new normality” after seven weeks of lockdown, the scale of the daunting challenges […]
Lanzarote’s Cabildo has been meeting with the island’s seven ayuntamientos to discuss the possibility of abandoning the summer programme of local fiestas and diverting the budget for these events to social causes. Lanzarote’s fiesta season is a series of traditions that see villages and towns throughout the island staging events to celebrate the feast day […]
Social meetings of up to 10 people are likely to be permitted from May 11th, after the Spanish government altered it’s four stage plan for leaving the lockdown yesterday. As part of the initial Phase 1 of the lockdown exit strategy, meetings of up to 10 people will be permitted in private homes, in the […]
You’ve got time on your hands, so why not use it to learn the local language? All over Spain, and even in the barrios of Lanzarote, you can see posters decorated with rainbows in windows or hanging from balconies. The idea for this campaign came from Italy’s lockdown and has been adopted by children all […]
While the lockdown has been bitter for many humans, it has been good news for marine wildlife and the environment on Lanzarote, with killer whales seen leaping off the coast of Costa Teguise and waters virtually undisturbed by boats or humans. The slowdown in activity has also slashed air pollution levels, especially in the city […]
The Canaries are one of the Spanish regions least-affected by COVID 19, and the islands are raring to get back to normality. But how have they escaped so lightly? La Gomera in the Canary Islands was the first place in Spain to record a case of coronavirus, just one month after the virus was first […]
Dani is a medium-large labrador mix, born in September 2014. Dani was taken off the Arrecife streets when he was found abandoned and has spent the last five years in a small cage in the Arrecife Perrera, where he was never exercised. Having finally been adopted from there he was handed in a week later […]
Hats off to Nadie Sin Comer on Lanzarote, a charitable organisation that is doing wonders to help those who are worst hit by the economic impact of the lockdown. With thousands laid off or sacked, many of those without contracts ineligible for many benefits and delays in benefits, many households are feeling the pinch. Council’s […]
After weeks of unreliable supplies and fluctuating prices, face masks were made available at the majority of Lanzarote’s farmacias (chemists shops) on a rationed basis. The masks are of the surgical type, and the Las Palmas College of Pharmacists has recommended that the upper price limit for each mask is 95 cents. To obtain a […]
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