the eco friendly traveller
Until meeting Alex Wade earlier this year, I didn’t have much knowledge of Jose Saramago and no idea that he lived here in Lanzarote. While Alex and his family were with us during spring 2010, I had the pleasure of taking them to visit some of the places that we love most on the island.
We generally advise visitors to [...]
Mum and I were recently working on our final night at Casa isla in Playa Blanca following months of planning, weeks of cement dust, days of shopping until our feet were numb, cleaning, hanging, unpacking, polishing, mum had already been sewing for weeks leading up to this preparing the brand new yurt Royal but that’s a whole [...]
Let me first say that I’m by no means a member of the environmental movement. I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about “green” issues and I take part in many activities that would probably shock the extreme environmentalist (for example, eating food that has been flown halfway around the world at great carbon [...]
Tonight there will be bonfires lit around the island of Lanzarote to celebrate the eve of San Juan, which marks the summer solstice and takes place on the shortest night of the year.
Yes Already it’s that time!
The bonfires are said to signify purification, on occasion people will jump over the fire up to three times [...]
Often referred to as the Hawaii of Europe, Lanzarote has powerful waves heading throughout its reefs from October – March, but will be consistent enough to offer good waves during any given month of the year, so if you are up for a surf, surf is always up for you here in Lanzarote, visit us soon, be safe and enjoy.
Today we say farewell to freelance journalist, part time media lawyer and Author, Alex Wade.
It’s been such a pleasure to meet the clan and we are sad to see them leave, as predicted within five minutes of our first conversation, it was a trip which would generate a lot of positives, some of which I take to be perhaps [...]
We decided to sit out yesterdays Centre Point surf club , and stay in Arrieta with our two younger children Flynn 7 & Darcy 4. Thank God we did because Im not sure my nerves or my neatly trimmed nails would have survived waiting for Surf Nation writer Alex Wade to return from his first post surgery waves.
Our eldest son [...]
It’s now time to delve into the centre of that last question again and begin mission number two. What do our stay ec chic visitors want to know about this island before they arrive?
How much time do you spend really looking after your own wants and needs on the average holiday? I don’t mean making sure that you have applied at least a factor 40 spf to your shoulders (not forgetting your partners shoulders, complete block on the children’s noses), or taking time to have a nap on the beach [...]
They say that “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder” and I think that ‘they’ are right. What is chic? If you look the word up, this is one of the answers you will find:
’stylish’ or ’smart’, an element of fashion and the counterpart of ‘posh’
I’m not so sure this is 100% accurate, what if the same principal applies to [...]