Recent Boos
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play0:00 / 5:58Visitors to the Canary Islands may remember that at the end of a good meal in a local restaurant, and before the bill arrives, they are p...
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play0:00 / 5:28Visitors to the Canary Islands and Spain will notice that the flying of flags is a popular pastime. Public and government buildings, as w...
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play0:00 / 5:01Bankers Go Bananas I thought that I recognised the voice over the underground station’s speaker system; it sounded familiar, but I cou...
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play0:00 / 4:36Live and Let Live One of the many things that I love about our island in the sun is the ‘live and let live’ attitude of most of its pe...
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BarrieMahoney Live and Let Live One of the many things that I love about our island in the sun is the ‘live and let live’ attitude of most of its people. No, I don’t mean the thousands of tourists, but the true Canarian people, those who were born here and have stayed in this little corner of Paradise. As long as it is broadly legal and does not interfere with anyone else, in the main, anything goes. For many of its present day expat population, with its heady mix of faith, culture, colour and sexuality, it takes time to get used to not being judged. Maybe this stems from the time, it is said, when Spain’s General Franco, intolerant of gay men in the military, would ship them off to Gran Canaria, which became a kind of penal colony for homosexuals. www.barriemahoney.com and www.thecanaryislander.com
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play0:00 / 4:57I admit to being a proud European. Although English born and bred, and I still love the United Kingdom, including Scotland if it remains ...
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play0:00 / 4:22The World recession has claimed the hopes and dreams of many expats, as well as local people. Many expats who finally achieved their dre...
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play0:00 / 5:11A recent announcement by the Chinese Government to axe more than two-thirds of prime time light entertainment shows and replace them with...
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play0:00 / 5:08Many of us have fallen out with credit cards. Individually, as well as nationally and globally, we can now see that being encouraged to s...
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play0:00 / 4:20Expats in many countries, and particularly those in Spain, Portugal and France, will quickly discover many wonderful bakeries. Forget the...
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play0:00 / 4:18As many Canary Islander residents and visitors already know, Carnival is celebrated with a passion in every major town in each of the sev...
