Activities Abound in Playa del Ingles and Maspalomas, Spain Playa del Ingles and Maspalomas are the main tourist areas of Gran Canaria, Canary Islands. They are about a 40 minute drive west of the island’s international airport. The two centers…
Apartamentos Las Arenas Offers Affordable Lodging in Playa del Ingles Apartamentos Las Arenas is a part hotel, part owner occupied residence in the heart of Playa del Ingles, Gran Canaria’s main tourist center. The hotel is about a 30 minute…
Gran Canaria Road Trip If all you did in Gran Canaria was travel from the airport to Playa del Ingles, you would miss almost everything the island had to offer. On the 30 minute trip, you pass barren landscape, windmill…
On the way from the Gran Canaria International Airport to my hotel in Playa Del Ingles, I knew I was in the right place for the Maspalomas Gay Pride 2016 (Gran Canaria) when the car I was travelling in passed…
I spent six days in the mountains of Spain, volunteering at VaughanTown, before arriving in Madrid. While there a tip from Madrid local, Paco, led me to breakfast at Harina my first day in Madrid. My day started at Puerta…
Imagine staying in a hotel built for a King, or sleeping where Prince Rainier III of Monaco and his Princess Grace Kelly spent their honeymoon. Picture a hotel in a time so regal that celebrities were refused accommodation, considered being…
VaughanTown is a non-paid, volunteer program where Native English speaking participants exchange conversation for room and board in the heart of the Spanish countryside. I had the wonderful experience of participating in this volunteer abroad program in March 2013. VaughanTown…
Chris Stewart is the unlikely author of a book that has sold over a million copies. The path that took him from a schoolboy in England to drummer for the band Genesis to twenty five years of combining sheep shearing with…