Miguel's blog
This is the main site. If you're on a phone or a tablet, do you prefer to go mobile? And if you have an iPhone or an iPad you can get our App at the iTunes here: iTunes and then snap our QR code over on the left. Lanzarote is a wonderful island in the Canary Island Archipelago, and we're here to provide you with all the information you could possibly need about it. If you're planning a holiday to Lanzarote, or thinking of relocating to the island, sign up for our email newsletter to keep up to date with all the Lanzarote information. You can navigate around the site using the tabs at the top of the page, which will take you to articles in each category. We’ve not loaded the site with lots of menu options, if you are looking for something specific, please use the search facility at the top of the page and this will give you a shortlist of articles and photos relating to that subject. We would really like to hear from you, please feel free to add comments to the articles posted. Please subscribe to the site for regular updates and special reader offers before you leave, using the form to your left. |
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If you read any forum that relates to the island, you’ll know the trials and tribulations many ex pats face trying to get a decent television service showing their favourite programs. With the need for ever larger dishes, Sky is becoming impractical, and watching streaming television to a PC, whilst hiding your IP address, isn’t the easiest answer for anyone technically challenged.
We’ve been contacted by a new company called Evastel TV, who are planning to launch a new service here in the near future. Their promise is encouraging: read more » |
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If I could have had one wish for 2012, it would have been to be able to write a happy ending to this story. Sadly that isn’t the case. |
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After various organised searches on the tracks around Famara on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, there has still been no sign of Margaret. We joined the team that tackled the treacherous cliff path on New Year’s Day and together with Margaret’s son Ben, his friends Andy and Mark, volunteer guide José and residents Trish and Mick, we scoured the many ravines along the 17 KM route. The path is all but impassable now due to landslides, and we wouldn’t recommend anyone to use it without specialist help, ropes and equipment.
Despite the difficult circumstances, Ben remains focused and committed to the search and he expressed his gratitude to the local community and to his own friends, for the way they have all rallied around. read more » |
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We’d like to thank you for all your support in 2011 – the year Lanzarote Information became three years old. |
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The sun has gone down on another day of searching here in Lanzarote, and it has now been a full week since Margaret was last seen. Teams of emergency services volunteers and locals spent the day searching the many paths of the island fruitlessly. Islanders of several nationalities joined up with the official teams and also covered areas alone. Margaret’s son Ben, his wife Clare and their friends were part of the search team and were met by The British Consul from Las Palmas for a late debrief this afternoon. At the meeting they were told that official support cannot be offered over the weekend, and this means that only local volunteers will be able to continue the search tomorrow. We’re appealing for help to join the family in a grid search from Orzola, where Margaret was last sighted – this is on the advice of the professional search and rescue services. If you can join us, please be at the church in Orzola at 9AM tomorrow morning. read more » |
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There has been a confirmed sighting of Margaret in Famara last Friday at 1115 AM. The person who spent time with her was able to describe a distinguishing feature. Her son in law, Ben Riley, has traced a route he feels she would logically have taken from there, based on conversations she had where she expressed a desire to reach the highest parts of the island and to visit Haria, the valley of a thousand palms. There’s a meeting of the official search teams this morning to discuss plans for the day, and in the meantime, Ben has asked if local volunteers could help by walking his likely route from each end today. If you can help please contact: Jules on 603 451 642 if you can walk from the northern end – meeting in Haria Plaza at 10AM Mick on 686 018 130 if you can walk from Famara end – meeting at the supermarket in the bungalows at Famara at 10AM read more » |
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The Belén is a wonderful Spanish tradition. Each year most villages on the island create their own nativity scene and vie for the best and most beautiful representation, taking in cues from the island, and of the more traditional setting of the baby Jesus’ birth. For the first time this year, Bodega Stratvs has decided the create a display, and we attended, along with President Pedro San Ginés and many other well known island faces, along with D ‘n B star Charlie “Joy C” who is on holiday here from the UK.
We enjoyed a sumptuous selection of Stratvs’ wines, which were served with local goat’s cheese, before the lights were turned onto the magnificent display. It’s one of the best we’ve seen, covering a huge area, with mountains, a working windmill, a water wheel and the nativity scene itself set in a cave. To one side, there was a small corral with sheep, goats and a calf.
It was breath-taking! Here’s a short video we shot:
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