How To Make Spanish Pisto With Aubergines

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Late summer and autumn is the ideal time to enjoy this delicious vegetable dish that is fundamentally vegan. Spanish pisto hails from La Mancha and doesn’t usually have aubergines. However, we like their silky texture and summery flavour, and also enjoy the oomph that some Provençal herbs give to the dish, which is very similar to a French ratatouille.

Ethnic food shopping on Lanzarote

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If you’re a keen cook, an adventurous eater, a vegetarian or vegan, gluten intolerant or just fancy some new flavours, discovering the ethnic food shops on Lanzarote is worth doing.

Guide to Spain’s new EES and ETIAS schemes

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The launch dates are firming up for the introduction of the EES and ETIAS schemes, which will change things for non-EU citizens entering Spain, including Lanzarote’s most important market, the British.

Hunting season begins on Lanzarote

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We’re now in Lanzarote’s hunting season, an increasingly controversial period when pet owners should take extra care in rural areas.

Reader’s Letters – September 2025

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Our readers regularly send us messages and emails regarding Lanzarote, here are some of your thoughts that we printed in the September edition.

Back To School For Canaries

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Schoolchildren in the Canaries will be heading back to their studies on September 9th after those long, lazy, wonderful summer holidays.

Mancha Blanca celebrations this month in Lanzarote

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On 13th September, Lanzarote will gather in the village of Mancha Blanca to celebrate the island’s only official miracle and pay tribute to the mysterious Lady of the Volcanoes.

Talking Rubbish: Interview At Lanzarote’s Dump

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Almost everything you throw away on Lanzarote ends up in the heart of the island, at the Environmental Complex located in the volcano of Zonzamas. Each month, 4,000 refuse lorries pass through the white gate to deposit rubbish created by 160,000 residents and the 80,000 tourists who are on the island at any given time. We entered the volcano last month to meet the Cabildo’s Solid Waste councillor, Domingo Cejas.

Archaeologists are uncovering Lanzarote’s past

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Archaeologists have discovered what could be the oldest water cistern on Lanzarote at the ancient settlement of El Bebedero.

Lanzarote’s wine harvest worries

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Lanzarote's 2025 wine harvest is the lowest poorest of the century so far, with fewer than 600,000 kilogrammes likely to be gathered. Meanwhile, another serious threat has emerged on Tenerife.