Some sobering news here about illegal immigrant boat people coming to Gran Canaria. This seems to be becoming more and more common. Illegal immigration in Gran Canaria seems to be at an all time high and few of the illegal immigrant boats seem to make it to one of the islands, if they make it [...]
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Hypothermia Kills Stranded Refugees Heading for the Canaries
September 4th, 2008 · No Comments
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Taxi Drivers’ Guide
August 30th, 2008 · No Comments
Taxi drivers in Telde have all been given language guidebooks to study with useful phrases in. Driver in the resorts in the south already have these guidebooks. A thousand copies have now been given out. Most people can manage “por favor” and “gracias” (a common courtesy since the tourists are the ones in Spain) but [...]
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Forest Fires
August 6th, 2007 · No Comments
You might have heard in the news that the Canary Islands (especially Gran Canaria and La Gomera) have suffered some bad forest fires recently! What made it so awful was that we had temperatures of 50ºC and high winds so the fires spread worrying quickly. We had ashes in the air and people couldn’t even [...]
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