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Casa Isla a Grand Idea
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 [...]
The end of this journey..was it fate?
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 [...]
A funny thing happened – Indeed! What a responsible adult I am
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 [...]
Chic Healthy Living Week
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 [...]
What is the meaning of Chic?
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 [...]
Competition news
At the beginning of 2010 we decided to join forces with our sister company ‘Lanzarote Retreats’ and offer a unique prize draw competition. The response has been fantastic and on the 10th of March the lucky winner will be announced! BUT, its not too late for you to join if you havent already.
I guess first [...]
Happy NEW Year!
My family and I are British but we live full time in Lanzarote and have done for many years. I work very hard along with my partners, Tila and Michelle Braddock, to try and make the changes this island so deserves. In all fairness to our politicians they are eager to help Lanzarote to become a greener [...]
Green Love
“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.”
-Native American Proverb
Chic Tool of the Week
Each time a user pastes content from your website into an email, blog or website, we automatically add a URL link back to your site’s original content. When someone clicks that URL, they are directed back to your site and see the original content with the copied portion highlighted. This drives incremental traffic to your [...]
Just Checking!!
I’ve just discovered an amazing service called Tynt being used on the Daily Mail website and can’t understand how I missed it before. What Tynt does is use a neat piece of JavaScript to add a link to any content that is cut & pasted from your website.
We’ve been using JavaScript to add links to [...]