In the BBC documentary “A farm for the future” it is discussed about the oil shortage that will occur in our very near future. Today, the way we are living are incredibly depending on oil and the way this will effect us mostly is that the food prices will go up very fast when the [...]

Last weekend (in double meaning) on Gran Canaria I spent camping on a hidden nudist beach with a friend. Because of the easter holidays just starting the beach was full of tents and people. What started as a problem when our tent broke ended up as a perfect solution sleeping under the stars and full [...]

1. Scuba diving in Gran Canaria
2. Gran Canaria to Tenerife
3. Gran Canaria & backpacking
4. Carnaval de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
5. Cuatro Puertas, Telde – Gran Canaria

Last weekend I finally got to scuba dive here in Las Palmas, just a week before I am going to leave Spain (booked a flight  some days ago). The dive I did was a wreck dive on 30 meters deep with a visibility of about 5-10 meters, which is not so good as the normal [...]

1. Scuba diving & whale sharks in Tofo, Mozambique
2. How to get NIE on Gran Canaria, Spain
3. Gran Canaria to Tenerife
4. Price examples from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
5. Gran Canaria & backpacking

Yesterday I visited an interesting archaeological place here on Gran Canaria called Cuatro Puertas. This is a collection of hand made caves on the Montaña Bermeja where the religious priests or outcasts of the ancient Guanche people, Gran Canaria’s original inhabitants, used to live a long time ago. The name of the place comes from one of the caves with [...]

1. Gran Canaria to Tenerife
2. Carnaval de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
3. How to get NIE on Gran Canaria, Spain
4. Gran Canaria & backpacking
5. Price examples from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

A week ago I started taking surfing lessons here on Gran Canaria. I had only tried surfing once before in Ponta Do Ouro, Mozambique, but still I managed to stand on the board already on the first wave thanks to some practice on my technique before getting wet. Now I am totally hooked and just want [...]

1. Pictures of Tarifa, Spain

The carnival here lasted for one whole month and still i realized now that i didn’t write a single word about it in the blog. Although I liked it one month is more then enough, so I was happy when it finally ended. The carnival parties were mostly focused to the weekends at the Santa Catalina square, [...]

1. Price examples from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
2. Gran Canaria & backpacking
3. Gran Canaria to Tenerife
4. How to get NIE on Gran Canaria, Spain
5. Festival of Virgen del Rosario in Fuengirola

Here are my normal post about living costs, this time about Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. The supermarket used this time was HiperDino but there are other cheap alternatives like Carrefour & Spar. STORE / SUPERMARKET (HiperDino) 1,5 liter water bottle 40 cent 1,5 liter juice 86 cent 1 liter milk 1,12 euro 1 liter [...]

1. Price examples from Tarifa, Spain
2. Price examples from Lisbon, Portugal
3. How to get NIE on Gran Canaria, Spain
4. Gran Canaria to Tenerife
5. Prices in Mozambique (examples from Maputo)

I am just back in Gran Canaria after spending a weekend in Tenerife. I had a great time and really enjoyed Tenerife which is more green than Gran Canaria, both in the main city Santa Cruz de Tenerife and in the nature. One of the interesting things that happened to me was when trekking with a friend [...]

1. 5 days of improvisational travel
2. How to get NIE on Gran Canaria, Spain
3. Gran Canaria & backpacking
4. 40 hours in Ponta Do Ouro
5. Gibraltar pictures

I recently started training Wing Chun in a nearby park here in Las Palmas, after my current flatmate who works in Guardia Civil told me about it. This martial art is totally different from any other martial arts I have practiced before, as it is based on very near contact, a constant soft flow instead of hard [...]

It can be a good idea to get a residency (NIE) if you are planing to stay on the Canary Islands for some months. This will only take you one morning to fix and costs 20 euro. With the NIE paper you have cheaper prices on most things here, like half price on flights and cruises. [...]

1. Gran Canaria & backpacking
2. Price examples from Tarifa, Spain