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Where to find us

We've heard some of you guys have been having trouble finding our new location! You will find us just off the roundabout where Home Zentrum is located, we are the first building you see on the left after exiting the roundabout. Directly…

Scooter Control

Regulations governing electric scooter use have, up to now, been left to local councils – who have responded in all sorts of different ways. However, Spain’s traffic department the DGT has just published provisional guidelines aimed…

Park Life

The number of cars and motorbikes on Lanzarote has risen constantly. There are now over 129,000 registered vehicles of all types on the islands, a figure that includes 33% more cars and more than twice as many motorcycles than there were 15…

Failing the Killer Touch

The Rojillos (Reds) have had a difficult start to the season. They have only lost on three occasions, which only the top two clubs can better, but the problem has been that they have drawn 10 of the 16 games played. This leaves UD Lanzarote…

Election Currency Boost

The pound rose to a three-year high against the Euro immediately following Boris Johnson’s victory in the UK General election. Brexit has, over the last three and a half years, been bad news for sterling, but the currency markets…

Over and Out

Three and a half years of uncertainty is over and the UK will be officially out of the EU on 31st January after Boris Johnson’s Conservative party won the 12th December General Election with a huge majority. Johnson’s election campaign…

Goodbye, Flick

Felicia Ann Schwind 1943 - 2019 Flick passed away peacefully on the 3rd of December 2019 at Devonshire House in Sudbury, Suffolk after a short illness. Born on the 25th May, 1943 during an air raid in Birmingham, Flick was a model for…

Adiós, Juan!

The Juan Brito Foundation, formed by family and friends of the multi- talented Juan Brito, who died two years ago at the age of 98, organised a moving celebration of his centenary year at San Bartolomé's theatre last month. On stage…

A Decade of Turmoil

The ten years since the start of 2010 have seen immense changes in the world, and they’ve affected each one of our lives here on Lanzarote as much as anywhere. We look back at a decade of conflict and turmoil. When a Tunisian…

The Year Ahead

As Lanzarote steps into the 2020s, its priorities are to maintain the levels of tourism of recent years, as well as to tackle urgent new environmental realities that could seriously affect a low-lying island. At the time of writing…