We’ve just returned from a wonderful vacation in Germany. Our noses are still filled with the scent of woodruff, spruce, and hay, and the taste of ripe mirabelle plums and sweet blackberries lingers on our tongues. Our eyes are still drunk on all that green—on the meadows and fields that…
Manuel Peláez with his “Finca Tres Peñas” is by far the best-known face of the island’s organic farmers, with 16 hectares of planted land and stalls at all the farmers’ markets selling local fruit, vegetables and freshly squeezed juices.
Not long ago, ruins were discovered on the uninhabited island of “Lobos,” named after the sea wolves that once lived there. Excavations began after pottery shards and the remains of many shells indicated that there must have been settlements here. Historians are now certain that this island off the coast…
If you go to the larger villages on the island last weekend, you can watch the busy hands of volunteers spreading colorful salt carpets in the plazas in front of the churches. A Corpus Christi procession led by the priest will then walk over this carpet on Sunday. This small…
There’s a lot going on outside my office window by the palm trees: sparrows are stuffing the hungry mouths of their young and flying around. At the top of the palm tree, busy parrots are building their nests. The atmosphere is bustling with activity. I sit at my laptop and…
Carnaval here extends far beyond Ash Wednesday for all those who want to party and dress up until the last municipality, Yaiza, celebrates it this year in mid-March. And to be honest, I’m not a particularly big fan of the loud and colorful Carnaval, but I like the traditional, small…
No sooner had the rainbow been chosen as the brightly colored protagonist than the first little flowers stretched their heads upwards. First the yellow ones, many of them mustard-like. Then the violets, the viper’s bugloss, and lilacs – cloudy levkoyas. In the north, the sunny local daisies will soon begin…
Anyone approaching Lanzarote was surprised. Is there a confusion with Ireland? Lush, fresh greenery initially only washed around mountains, flowed down ravines, branched out and wound its way through the landscape in fine veins. However, it is now apparent that it is not only where it is more humid and…
There are still a few miniature nativity scenes, called Belenes, on the island that can be visited. And: it’s worth it! The event of the Nativity in the stable, accompanied by shepherds and the Three Wise Men, is embedded here in our Lanzarote landscape. The nativity scene at the Bodega…
The longest nights of the year are now joined by the new moon, which makes them particularly dark. As in an Advent garden, which is usually reserved for children to enter, your own little light can now only be lit in the middle. There, where the warmth of the heart…
