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Nellie’s TRIUMPH! JST The Jubilee Sailing Trust’s original square-rigged threemasted barque, STS Lord Nelson, this month returns back to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria after a two year absence during which she triumphantly circumnavigated the globe, having completed an epic voyage over tens

of thousands of nautical miles, to become the first ever mixed ability tall ship to Sail The World, including her maiden voyage to the southern hemisphere and becoming the first multi-accessible tall ship ever to sail round Cape Horn.

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The JST were backed in their extraordinary adventure by international legal practice Norton Rose Fulbright, who specialise in providing pre-eminent corporations and financial institutions from around the globe with a full business law service. Employing more than 3800 lawyers based in over 50 cities across Europe, the United States, Canada, Latin America, Asia, Australia, Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia, Norton Rose Fulbright have offices in many of Lord Nelson’s stopover ports, and so were ideally placed to promote and assist people of all abilities to take part in this unique undertaking. Their support was a mix of financial backing, alongside assistance with the voyage logistics, marketing and international awareness-raising. They also sponsored individuals with physical disabilities over six of the ten ocean passages necessary to complete the challenge.

Lord Nelson, the world’s first ever to-be-built fully accessible tall ship, launched in 1986, embarked on her emprise from the JST’s home port of Southampton on October 21st 2012, Trafalgar Day, on which Admiral Lord Nelson’s most famous victory of 1805 is annually commemorated. This was to be the biggest ever adventure yet undertaken by the Jubilee Sailing Trust, a charity founded in 1978 solely to enable mixed ability crews to sail together. After the jubilation of the London Olympics and Paralympics that year this was a perfect opportunity to bring a can-do message of achievement and pride to the world, starting with a very precious cargo bound for Rio de Janeiro in the form of the Olympic torch itself.

The 55-metre tall ship is one of only two fully accessible tall ships in the world (the other being Tenacious) and is sailed by 40 crew of mixed ability. Features such as braille signage, wheelchair lifts between decks and hearing loops, hand rails and a bowsprit wide enough to accommodate a wheelchair, mean a large variety of physical abilities can be accommodated on board. The ethos of the JST is to simply focus on what people are able to do, rather than what they can’t, and a buddy system on board pairs able-bodied and disabled crew during a voyage so they can provide each other with mutual support.

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This was the first time too that we have ever heard of any major global corporation adopting such a significant Corporate Social Responsibility project across all their principal geographic regions. Supporting a project like this is an act of imagination and required significant effort from Norton Rose Fulbright to secure engagement and see it through.

With over a thousand people taking part over ten legs, Nellie, as she is most affectionately known, has now travelled to all seven continents, visiting thirty countries and more than 100 ports, crossing the equator six times and has covered, on this voyage alone, more than 51,000 nautical miles (95,000 km) to become the worlds first fully accessible, mixed ability tall ship ever to sail the entire globe, once more making history for this extraordinary charity.

Having begun with an emblematic 55 day, 5,300 mile voyage over the Atlantic, crossing both tropics, with stop-offs here in Gran Canaria and in Cape Verde to the south, then across the ocean to sail down the

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east coast of Brazil; after a slightly longer than expected new year stop over in Rio de Janeiro, she left Copacabana beach to visit the British Overseas Territory of Tristan de Cunha (population 297), the second most remote inhabited island in the world, before completing the 3,500 miles to Cape Town in just 35 days.

From Tierra del Fuego, famously known as the ‘Uttermost part of the Earth’, Nellie sailed southwards over 2,100 miles through the Beagle Channel and into the Drake Passage, passing the “Great Rock” that has stood guard over passing schooners and sailing ships for centuries. The ‘narrow’ gap between the Antarctic Peninsula and the Andes of South America is very shallow, Her permanent crew of eight then sailed round The Cape of creating some of the biggest waves in the world. Who could not Good Hope to pick up her Indian Ocean crew at Durban sailhave spared a thought for all those tall ship sailors who fought ing 4,600 miles via Mauritius and Sri Lanka over 47 days to the for their lives attempting to find passage round the Horn with ancient Indian spice port of Kochi, home port too to Nellie’s two their precious youngest sisters, cargos or with the training ships an enemy ship in INS Tarangini and pursuit - having INS Sudarshini, had no benefit of also both conmodern weather ceived by naval forecasting or architect Colin the protection Mudie, Nellie’s of a steel hull. original designer.

For many sailors this part of the Sailing on for adventure is a nearly a month pilgrimage, and over more than whatever their 2,100 miles age, to underthroughout Asia, take such a voystopping at variage in a tall ship ous Indian ports as is a memorable well as Sri Lanka, event to say the Thailand, Malaysia least, one that and on to Singathey will tell pore for another crew change she then headed south across the equator, through their grandchildren about, as well as everyone they know. the Indonesian Islands, stopping at Christmas Island and the Having swapped the southern penguins for latin Tango and a Cocos, finally to arrive at Australia’s Freemantle having covered new crew in the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires, Lord Nelson another 4,400 miles over 44 days. once again sailed the South Atlantic Ocean for 55 days, swept along by the trade winds 5,700 miles back via Tristan de Cunha The permanent crew spent southern winter along the Aussie and St Helena to the Venice of Brazil, Recife. From here she coast, having been invited to represent the nation’s tall ship sailed once more across the equator, 4,500 miles up the entire fleet at the Royal Australian Navy International Fleet Review in length of the Caribbean, stopping to experience these unique Sydney Harbour, participating in the centenary celebrations for the Royal Australian Navy, attended by HRH Prince Harry, which tropical islands, before heading north via Rhode Island and to Nova Scotia arriving in Halifax, Canada for her last crew change had itself been the original catalyst for this never before tried before the final leg home. global voyage.

She took part in the International Tall Ships race from Sydney Harbour to Auckland, undertaking four shorter voyages in New Zealand waters before again setting sail with a fresh crew for perhaps the most extraordinary leg of her journey, spending Christmas in the Chatham Islands before rounding the infamous Cape Horn as part of more than a month at sea, travelling 6,300 miles to eventually make landfall in the remote Argentine town of Ushuaia, commonly regarded as the southernmost city in the world, right in the heart of Tierra del Fuego, becoming the first ever mixed ability tall ship to complete the route through the southern oceans.

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Stopping in to see St John’s in Newfoundland, the oldest city in north america, Nellie and her crossed the entirety of the North Atlantic Ocean, via Iceland and The Faroe Islands, before making major headlines upon her triumphant return to England, being granted the rare London privilege of travelling up the Thames, Tower Bridge raised in her honour, to moor alongside HMS Belfast.

Back just in time for the start of the ARC and her winter season, well worth a visit to Las Palmas for a photo opportunity.

If you want to find out more about The Lord Nelson, just drop us a line here to Nellie@TheCanaryNews.com

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These amazing images from local photographer Borja Suarez, manage to capture the moments when a group of 21 migrants who had travelled in a Patera (open boat) from the African continent, were discovered to have come ashore on the tourist beach of Maspalomas, in the south of Gran Canaria, as we were going to press, with concern over their health causing fear and confusion among the authorities.

Watched by tourists, the local police, national police and the red cross can be seen wearing face masks and carefully following a procedure designed to ensure the immigrants remained isolated, so as to prevent any danger whatsoever of contagions being transmitted, in a clear effort to protect against any possibility of viral transmission from these arrivals, some of the hundreds, if not thousands, of unknown and undocumented peoples who risk their lives every year to try and reach these shores to escape the most extreme poverty.

The Directorate General of Public Health of the Canary Islands Government agreed not to activate the preventative public emergency Ebola protocols after discovery of the boat, in the popular resort, having reviewed the results from epidemiological study of its occupants.

The Canarian Government Ministry of Health, in a statement, reported that public health department epidemiologists, having

tested the migrants, found no reason to suspect the need to raise an alert and activate public health protocols. However the time it took to get to that statement caused world wide headlines when coupled with the method that was eventually used to transport the migrants off the beach.

Images Courtesy of Borja Suarez a year on the journey that led them to being transported by “mothership” from the coast of morocco and then set adrift a few miles off shore, to take their chances.

Officials said that no serious illness was found, another clinical criteria for suspected symptoms which include fever, severe headache, abdominal pain, diarrhoea, vomiting, or hemorrhagic symptoms.

They looked exhausted, though in otherwise fair health as they sat on the beach awaiting transfer. Police burned the boat at the scene, as tourists took photographs. It The statement said that if none of the epidemiological and clinical criteria are met, is not clear if this is part of normal procethe department does not deem it necessary dure or an extra preventative measure. to activate the protocol for suspected virus, Press photographer Borja said “I’ve been adding that, with the arrival of any boat covering the arrival of boats to Gran under similar circumstances, members of Canaria from the start, I’ve been to other the public should immediately notify the islands like Fuerteventura and Lanzarote, National Police and the Guardia Civil who but have never felt another’s shame like I are charged with the direct responsibility did today. 21 people made to stay for six for containment and contacting the Directohours in the sun waiting for a “protocol” rate General of Public Health of the Canary due to the “possibility” of Ebola and then Islands, which can also be done through the finally all of them put in a truck like goats … emergency number 112 (SUC).

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Residence cards once more accepted for subsidised travel After the sweeping changes set in motion just two years ago, whereby all residents needed a separate certificate of residence confirming their registration on the local municipal empadronamiento so as to be able to benefit from the state subsidised 50% resident’s discounts on domestic travel from The Canary Islands within the archipelago and to all other Spanish territories, airlines and shipping companies, alongside the various reservation booking services, are now set to return to the original system they left behind and, from November 1st will again accept DNI,NIF or NIE residents cards. The change came about, ostensibly to curb widespread abuse by unregistered citizens, but has of course meant a near complete updating of the recorded information held centrally on all canary islands resident citizens who have been utilising the discount scheme and which will now facilitate a telematics query on their resident status, as announced last Tuesday by the Ministry for Development.

The accreditation system now in operation to verify residence status is known as SARA, and was developed by the Ministry of Public Works, alongside the various airlines and shipping companies, integrating over the last two years with their booking systems to make possible more robust verification of details supplied by those wishing to participate in the highly attractive travel subsidy scheme.

of travel issued by the municipal council under which they reside. Since 2012 the-powers-that-be have stringently enforced the change for all travellers, some commentators have pointed out that it would now seem, simply so that they could return to the system from which they came, having been reassured that their resident lists were up to date.

Those residents under 14 years old, who do not have ID, those who have only recently registered and those whose DNI/NIE details are not entered correctly in the system, will still need to carry the certificate issued by their local council, or simply pay full price.

Under the “new” model designed by the Department of Public Works, possible technical failures within the system itself will be combated through a contingency solution by which passengers can be further validated as residents if they have had a positive validation within the previous six months.

Through the development of the SARA system, the Ministry say they have tried to take a step forward to improve the efficiency of the current system of transport subsidies, reconciling obligations for passengers with improved control procedures.

Some are asking how much control can be achieved without risking infringement on the personal freedoms enshrined under From now on, according to the Department of Development, all European federal law. There are those who have commented users can access their telematics accreditation, cross referenced that this is a further symptom of a growing surveillance-society, where actual freedom takes at best second place to achieving from their residence card, allowing them to travel with a discounted ticket and with no further need to carry the certificate fully recorded movements of citizens and foreign residents.

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Walking in Solidarity!

The first Maspalomas Camina Contra Cancer de Mama (Walk Against Breast Cancer) was a huge success. Shirley Macdonald, the elegant powerhouse behind the event, was helped

by Jacqueline Lindop and their many devoted staff and friends at Travel shop, Enduria Travel and The Atlantic Experience, this was a great day for the English speaking community who joined

together with survivors and supporters, and many native canarians, to shine in solidarity with local Breast Cancer and Gynaecological Cancer support association the ACCM (Asociación Canaria de Cáncer de Mama y Ginecológico) From the Parque Sur de Maspalomas, more than 200 participants, including men, women and children walked along a sun-

Shirley Macdonald writes: It was meant to be a fun day for all and I am happy to say we achieved that. We had many nationalities, ages, sexes. We had dogs join us, a pregnant lady and even a cat! A very special thank you to those of you who are currently undergoing treatment and yet still came along YOU to support event – much appreciated THANK TOtheALL and we are all wishing you a speedy recovery. Thank you to the hotel Riu for cheering us on our way. A thank you too to the local PARTICIPANTS town hall and police force who accompanied us on the walk and I would like to extend a huge thank you to all those who took part in our walk against breast cancer on the 18th thank you It was to Paddy´s Bar – who kindly provided much needed reOctober 2014. a great success and to date we have raised an incredible total of 6283.10€ -­‐ which exceeded my target of 5000€.

DonaGons are sGll coming in and we expect to reach 7000€ by the end of this week.

I have freshment at the end of the walk and donated 10% of their takings. already had many people contacGng me to say they would like to sign up for next year!

The generosity of the people in Gran Canaria is astounding.

It was meant to be a fun day for all and I am happy to say we achieved that. We had many naGonaliGes, ages, sexes.

We had dogs join us, a pregnant lady and even a cat! A very special thank you to those of you who are currently We calculated that over 300 people turned out! Due to health isundergoing treatment and yet sGll came along to support the event – much appreciated and we are all wishing you a sues this summer I was concerned I ohad left it too tlate to organize speedy recovery. Thank you to the hotel Riu for cheering us n our way.

A thank you oo to the local town hall and police force who accompanied us on the walk Paddy´s Bar much needed the event and that we didn´tand thank you get the to word out– who kindly provided in time. How wrong refreshment at the end of the walk and donated 10% of their takings. The generosity of the people in Gran Canaria could I have been?

I was completely overwhelmed – even the is astounding.

Mayor and his family came along to support us.

We calculated that over 300 people turned out! Due to my own health issues this summer I was concerned I had leW

it too late to organize the event and that we didn´t get the word out in Gme. How wrong could I have been? I was Finally, I would like to say a special thank you to my family and completely overwhelmed – even the Mayor and his family came along to support us. friends in Kirkham. Unfortunately they could not join us this year Finally, I would like to say a special thank you to my family and friends in Kirkham. Unfortunately they could not join but held a hcoffee on Saturday the 18thto the – donating all proceeds ACCM here in Gall ran Cproanaria us this year but eld a coffee morning morning on Saturday the 18 – donaGng – Marisa, from the cancer associaGon, was parGcularly overwhelmed by this gesture and even ceeds to the ACCM here in Gran Canaria – Marisa, fromgave a shout out to the cancer our Majesty the Queen on the day. association, was particularly overwhelmed by this gesture and even Marisa Herrera and her team do a fantasGc job. They the do not get much government funding so it is up to us to gave a shout out to our Majesty Queen on the day. th

support them and raise enough money for them to conGnue their good work. They offer psychological support for

those who are babling breast and gynecological cancers and help raise awareness of the disease. I made a personal Marisa Herrera and her team do a fantastic job. They do not get promise that this was the first of many walks and it is a promise I intend to keep so I sincerely hope you will all join much government funding so it is up– which will to us ato them and me again next year.

Look out for posters regarding the event gain support be in October. We will also adverGse on social media. raise enough money for them to continue their good work. They I have psychological abached a small collecGon of photos the event. see battling more please breast go to our and website offer support forfrom those who To are www.enduriatravel.com or find us on Facebook – Enduria Travel. gynecological cancers and help raise awareness of the disease. I made a personal promise that this was the first of many walks and it is a promise I intend to keep so I sincerely hope you will all join me again next year. Look out for posters regarding the event – which will again be in October. We will also advertise on social media.

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ny route past the Statue of Christopher Columbus, and ExpoMeloneras. The staff and guests of RIU Palace Meloneras all came out to cheer, organised by the hotel’s director, Frank. Marisa Herrera, founder of the ACCM, took time there to thank everyone in a short speech expressing her deep sense of gratitude to the English speaking community here on Gran Canaria, who she

said had shown more solidarity with her cause than she had ever previously experienced.

The Ayuntamiento de San Bartolomé de Tirajana were instrumental in ensuring that the event was a great success welcoming this new initiative to support our local canarian charity who provide much needed help Breast Cancer sufferers and their families.

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The TOTAL fund rasied for this year was a whopping €21423.44 of which €3270.52 came through the Just giving site set up by Paul Gilliam on behalf of TUI, the UK tour operator, and which will be donated to The Family Holiday Association, which gives families, affected by poverty or illness, well needed and desrved vacations.

The remainder, which has come through the combined efforts of The English Speaking Community on Gran Canaria, will be donated to the Canarian Breast Cancer Association on the 15th of November.

Thanks to all the amazing work of both the staff and clients of Taurito Blue Explorers Dive Centre, Sunweb Holidays, The British School of Gran Canaria, Afrikat Catamaran, Kim & Steve’s Pub, Puerto Rico, Clinica Dental in Galdar, Enduria Travel’s

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Maspalomas Camina Contra Cancer de Mama, TUI UK (Including Thomson & First Choice holidays) & The Long Walk, this year the ACCM will receive approximately 10% of their annual required funding shortfall from the solidarity you have shown, but there is still a lot of work to do. This year’s Breast Cancer Donation from the English Speaking community:

€18,152.22 Thank you ACCM!

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A group of concerned persons who actively participate in improving the quality of life for their fellow citizens in the Municipality of Mogán, southwest of Gran Canaria. They have been distributing basic foods and other items to the needy families who approach them for help since 2008. They collect and distribute food and financial donations, clothing, furniture, household items of all types that are still in usable condition. Their operations are centred in Arguineguín where they share a public building belonging to the Town Council of Mogán. It is located next to the Kindergarten on Miguel Marrero street number 69, near the Tuesday Market. They need volunteers to raise funds, gather food items, deliver donations, collect items such as bread from bakeries at the end of the day and freeze it to be distributed frozen on Tuesdays, to inform them of any available food that they could distribute, to help the needy recover their independence by means of worthwhile occupation. They have an innovative programme they call “Adopt a Family” – individuals may commit to covering certain basic expenses for a family (any one or a specific one) such as their utilities, etc., for any amount you choose, or help by covering the expenses for schoolbooks for children, outfits for school, dental expenses, etc.

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Hotel Brisamar - Las Palmas

What pleasure, then, to happen almost accidently across the Las Palmas For Lovers Aparthotel Brisamar, overlooking Living on a subtropical island that Las Canteras beach in the heart of the capital city, for a simple and most people only visit for short periods can sometimes mean it is authentic romantic short break challenging to find either afford- away, it’d be hard to beat. able getaways or establishments Yes, the studio apartments are that offer authentic experiences perhaps a little like walking into without adding an unmerited “Las Palmas 1978”, with a curious tourist rate premium. mixture of wooden decoration, green patterned coverings and Sometimes the last thing you some funky lightshades, but to be are looking for is brash five star charges for a view of a palm tree honest that is totally part of the charm. It’s not furniture you want or a swimming pool.

EL CHURRASCO - Las Palmas “Life is a moment, almost an illusion that should not deprive us of the pleasure of fine dining.“ says Mario Gil, owner, and master roaster of what must be

Don Dario, Arguineguin “Bella scoperta” This bright and breezy family run Italian restaurant is Arguineguín’s latest little secret hotspot, having opened at the beginning of the summer, low season for the area, it had to be wondered if they might struggle, however their cheerful natures and evident pride in their home-

Though the decor may be dated, the accomodation is immaculately clean. Each comes with a little kitechenette and an incongrulously newly tiled bathroom, with bath and shower, and the twin beds, once you get over the groovalicious bedspreads, are more than comfortable.

However, it is without douvt the firendly staff, absolutely central location and the outstandingly exquisite balcony views over the ocean, from which to enjoy the setting sun, that make this little 2

simply the best Argentine steakhouse Las Palmas, this has over the years been described as “a temple for meat lovers.” With some of the finest and freshest imported pasture fed Aberdeen Angus beef available anywhere on the island El Churrasco’s proudly display their wares tableside to allow you to choose the choicest cuts for yourself.

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made food told quite another story. As the high season has come round, Don Dario’s has already started to build a busy frenzy on the usually quiet market square, particularly on a Tuesday afternoon, and with the Norwegian club just across the road, we suspect they will be gaining a healthy nordic following the rest of the week too.

as an important port for trading with the Orient, for goods from the mediterranean and later the eastern provinces of the Roman empire. Most famous for their wine (Montepulciano d’Abruzzo), their Pecorino cheese and an outstanding lamb and muttno skewer known as Arrosticini, Don Darios brings the truly authentic taste of Italy, along with the theatre of an honest-to-goodness Italian Family-run business right to the heart of Arguineguín.

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Distinct, comfortable and elegant, the atmosphere might seem a little clinical to those looking for more homely environs, but that is simply a matter of taste. This wonderful eatery Olof Palme 33 - 928 27 20 77 elchurrascorestaurante.com is perfect for a formal dinner or a special ocassion, as somewhere nottoo-intimate to go on With the authentic taste of latin a first date it is perfect. america, El Churrasco is named The establishment is for the specialist wood and char- comaparable with any coal grills that they use to cook top city dinning experitheir meat, in full view. One ence in the world, with wonderful part of the experithe exception that the ence is the opportunity to cook food and wine is probyour own, on a specially preably going to be among

Dario and his family hail from the Province of Pescara in the vibrant Abruzzo Region of eastern italy on the Adriatic coast at the mount of the AternoOutstanding!

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performance star in his own right, the Garbo’s Unforgettable team create a fresh new show every year, which they perform throughout the winter high season in a gala-dinner setting par excellence. The quality of their acts is now legendary, and unusually for a non-Spanish performance company, they are The brainchild of Gary Breslin, a regularly invited to headline the consummate professional and With all the entertainment and excursions on offer here in Gran Canaria, it can be difficult to know what to choose, especially if your time here is limited.

There is however one venue that has managed over the last 17 years to truly set themselves apart from the all the rest.

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Garbo’s ensure not only that you are well feed and watered, for one all inclusive ticket price; the quality of their performances regularly find their audience spontaneously standing, dancing and applauding in the aisles.

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These are without doubt some of the most polished and hardest working show stars you are ever likely to have the opportunity to see.

From the moment you enter their opulent dinner-theatre, unique on Gran Canaria, bedecked with crystal chandeliers and velvet furnishings, you may suspect that have underdressed for the occasion. Each large table sits up to ten and you are personally assigned a star member of their glamourous staff, who will ensure your entertainment and service throughout the night.

Their latest show “Legends” is one of their most ambitious yet, with soaring harmonies, cracking medleys and outstanding solo numbers taking you through some of the classic popular music greats of the last fifty years, peppered with modern twists and well known pop anthems you are sure to know, this year they have included an “acrobatic touch” to their already outstanding routines and as a special highlight some gobsmacking arial performances on the silks.

So spectacular is the Garbo’s effect, that they have become, without doubt, one of the most celebrated nights out anywhere in The Canary Islands.

Almost every night is a sellout performance, and you will find tourists rubbing shoulders with the many residents who return their year after year, and often more than once, for a sure fire night of glitter and glam on which to celebrate any special occasion.

Garbo’s is entertainment. The performances are of an extraordinarily high calibre, and The Canary would certainly be hard pushed to recommend any night on Gran Canaria more highly... though of course we’re always open to offers...

The Canary loves to sing about quality!

For more information on this or any other quality recommendations out on Gran Canaria call us on 928 987 952 or email us Reviews@TheCanaryNews.com

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Aqua

According to Spanish newspaper La Provincia, the Kiessling Family’s development group has overcome one of the major stumbling blocks standing in the way of their planned water theme park, touted to be Europe’s largest, due to be built in Gran Canaria’s popular southern resort of Playa del Inglés, having had no objections to the project raised by the Spanish State, who are co-owner of the land on which they intend to build the new Siam Park.

thus, at least in theory, paving the state, but management is under way for construction to go ahead. various local authorities, which in the case of the Canary Islands The company, Loro Parque, owns corresponds to island councils 174,827 square meters after and waterways belonging to the finalising the purchase a year municipal councils. ago from the family Del Castillo, descendants of the Count of The proposal has received eight Vega Grande de Guadeloupe y objections from various organiCastillio whose family historizations or companies, primarily cally owned much the lands on on the following: the south of the island, however state ownership of all land locat- First, saying that according to ed within the public waterways their understanding of the zonof El Veril, ie, the channels that ing classification for the lands The Spanish state, have not connect with the storm run-off in question development of a theme park like the one posed presented any arguments to the from the ravines of Guincho, by the German investor should project during the consultation Buenavista and Cañizo. The period that started in September, public waterways belong to the be prevented.

Furthermore, some of them believe that the space has environmental value ​​that should be preserved.

Now that the consultation period for those who wish to oppose the project is complete, the Cabildo’s department for Insular Waters of Gran Canaria will give the Siam Park promoter time to exercise their right to respond to each one.

Once answered, the agency of the Cabildo de Gran Canaria will issue a final resolution. However it is widely felt that the project has no overcome its primary obstacles, with the cabildo predisposed to move the plans forward.

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a Park

According to some calculations from sources within the insular government, the Kiessling family could have the green light before the end of the year, and might be able proceed with his project with work able begin in early 2015.

The park, which will require an investment of 60 million euros, and will be divided into three zones: The first is to the northeast and is the highest point, where the bigger slides (Tower of Power, The Dragon, Volcano, etc.) are planned.

The second is on the south side, next to the road, occupying the center of the enclosure in which the entrances and main services are to be built.

The third is to the west, where are the huge wave pool with its beach, children’s attractions, shops and the lazy river.

a channel of 33.2 meters wide and 50 meters long, which then fans out by 95 meters long and 145 meters wide, leading to an artificial sandy beach 160 meters in length. The maximum depth of the pool will be 2.40 meters.

The Siam ParkGran Canaria project also has thirteen other pools and slides, named Jungle SnakeThe water park will have a wave Pipeline, The Giant Cannonbowl shaped pool with glass side 40, The Lost City Children’s Vilwalls, similar to what already lage, Naga Racer, Power River, exists in the Siam Park in Tenerife Sawasdee, Kinnaree, Mekong and that is based on a hydraulic Rapid, Volcano, The Dragon, mechanism successfully tested at Tower of Power, Action River and the laboratories of the University Lazy River. of Liverpool. The wave forms in

Other facilities specified in the project include the Beach Club, Thai House, Thai temple, shops in the floating market, an amphitheater, cabins, kiosks, restaurants, parking, access from the GC-500, warehouses, water, toilets and lockers .

Wolfgang Kiessling has said he is sure the Siam Park Gran Canaria will delight residents and tourists, and has particularly emphasised that the project in Gran Canaria will not be a “clone” of Tenerife, though the same for the parks are the same, the will be noticeably different.

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AMIGOS CONTRA EL SIDA it’s not a gay thing, it’s a people thing

The local charity Amigos Contra El Sida “ACES” (friends against aids) in Gran Canaria, was founded in 1996, by a group of friends conscious about this very public health problem, which was not being adequately addressed.

vention of STIs (sexually transmitted infections); workshops for teenagers in secondary schools, for users of refugee centres, and to some of the island’s homeless community. They emphasise the need to educate adolescents at secondary school level about sexual health, because without it the Canarian youth would be This group of friends included men and women of varying social even more exposed to serious risks of contracting sexually transstatus, different nationalities and different religious beliefs, all mitted infections, without being able to make informed decisions. advocating tolerance and social inclusion of those affected by HIV. There is still a lot of work to be done in this area.

Anyone can have this chronic disease, regardless of their sexual orientation, colour or social background.

The charity has an important relationship with the Hospital Insular, with the Hospital Dr. Negrín and with the primary care centres Initially established in the town of Playa del Inglés, founded by of the island, especially the Centro de Salud de Maspalomas.

Mr. Claudio Falcón, nowadays the board of the charity is headed

by Mrs. Rita Almeida.

They offer free transport and accompany patients to the hospital, particularly those who do not have money to travel, they also During the last 18 years, ACES has opened further offices in the offer support to patients who do not speak Spanish, and help city of Las Palmas and in the town of Vecindario. ACES, is the only people who do not know how to negotiate their way between charity of its type which continues to keep its doors open, despite the different departments of the Hospital, as well as helpping the massive economic and institutional crisis in Spain. The main disabled patients, patients in the emergency room and those who challenge remains to fight discrimination against people living have been hospitalised. with AIDS; providing social and psychological support to the patients and their families.

ACES does receive some grants from public and private entities.

These grants go towards covering the salaries of key team memAmong its various objectives, ACES conducts projects on prebers such as a Psychologist, Social Workers, educators and a Monitor. The Primary Institutions sponsoring the charity’es projects WORLD AIDS DAY include: The Cabildo Insular de Gran Canaria, Dirección General de Salud Pública, Ayuntamiento de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 2014 Ayuntamiento de San Bartolomé de Tirajana y La Caixa Bank.

I am a person living with HIV. I face these issues.

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I may have tuberculosis

I am criminalized

As with any work of this nature, institutional grants only go partway to supporting their work, so it is very important to mention that some of the shortfall is made up only thanks to the financial support from some of the bars in Maspalomas, including monthly and occasional donations from: Bunker – Basement Studio – Reds – The Cellar – Rainbow Golf – Café Latino – Pub Junior – Pub Gío – Ricky’s Cabaret, Men Plaza – Wunder Bar – Bar Diamonds – Pub Buddies – Pub Meickers – Bar Mystique – The Box – Cruise Bar – Six Pack Zone – Bar Coco Loco – Pub Melodies, the vast majority of which are in the CC Yumbo Centre.

My status was disclosed without my consent

I can be arrested for exposing my partner to HIV

My family may reject me I do not have access to treatment I am scared that I will lose my job I face discrimination from health staff

The whole ACES team are engaged in work to help, to advise, to inform, to protect and defend any person with HIV.

I have no one who understands I have a right to dignified care I am proud to help my peers living with HIV

I had the courage to seek treatment and care

Source: UNAIDS

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ACES also receives donations, sometimes significant donations, from a few individuals who for reasons of privacy, do so anonymously.

other men, partners of people with HIV, women in volved in prostitution, and people who are at risk of social exclusion. The results are available in just 20 minutes.

Like all charities, we must find all of the rest of the money needed through various fundraising activities every year, such as World Aids Day (Dec.1st), and the Charity Gala so generously organized

by GLAY every year during the Maspalomas Pride. Both of these events are absolutely vital for the Charity Amigos contra el Sida.

The office of ACES at Maspalomas, has limited hours on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:00 to 14:00 hours. The manager of the office Mr. Orlando Viera, though sometimes he could be out of the office, visiting the Hospital or the Centro de Salud.

“The Show Open the Box” was created by ACES committee members in 1999. The Pub Nestor was the first bar that hosted the show with Barry & Stuart; years later was in Pub Junior with Dieter & Jeffrey. And there are some names that will always be linked to the show such as Miss Beverly Hills and Missee.

Headquarters of Las Palmas. Fatima health center.

ACES offer citizens and residents of the Island of Gran Canaria, a ACES, has “collection tins” in many bars, where customers provide variety of services from any of their offices. Monday to Friday from their collaboration.

9:00 to 15:00 hours.

C / Antonio Manchado Viglietti # 1 Las Palmas 35005 Tel / Fax: 928 230 085

A year ago the show moved to the Sparkles Show Bar; their entire Móvil695578001 team offers a very professional show, full of humor, a lot of fun and a lot of solidarity. They have raised more than 10,000€ so far! Email: amigos@amigoscontraelsida.org Part of the money they raise every week goes to people who simply do not have financial resources, to buy food, to buy bus passes, and to buy some of drugs prescribed to them for HIV related pathologies. The help that we are able to give is limited and conditional, subject to prior social study of the Patient. A percentage of the money goes, to cover the shortfall in administrative expenses for the charity.

Vecinadario Headquarters C / Colón Isla Graciosa corner, Local 6 - Module 1 Neighborhood 35510 Tel / Fax: 928 149 570 Mobile: 655 886 014 Email: vecindario@amigoscontraelsida.org

Every fortnight ACES deliver free condoms and lubricants to be Maspalomas Headquarters handed out freely, this prevention material is divided between a number of Bars in Maspalomas. Unfortunately they cannot deliver Municipal Market San Fernando de Maspalomas 2nd floor left more preventive material to all Bars, as these materials are proMaspalomas San Fernando vided by the Servicio Canario de Salud in very limited quantities.

San Bartolomé 35100 ACES has the authorization to offer the HIV Quick Test. They use an innovative and effective product; this test is confidential and Phone: 695 578 004 free. The test should be carried from time to time, and in an emergency when required. This test is aimed at men who have sex with Email: maspalomas@amigoscontraelsida.org

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I am an injecting drug user.

I am a person living with HIV. Worldwide, 19 million of the 35 million people living with HIV today do not know that they have the virus.

Only 55 of 192 countries offer a needle–syringe programme.

I am a young woman.

76% of adolescent girls in sub-Saharan Africa do not have comprehensive and correct knowledge about HIV.

I am a migrant.

I am a prisoner.

HIV prevalence among prisoners in some settings is 50 times higher than among the general population.

Around the world, 39 countries have an HIV-related travel restriction.

I am a sex worker.

HIV prevalence among sex workers is 12 times greater than among the general population.

I am a pregnant woman.

I am a man who has sex with other men.

Only 44% of pregnant women in low- and middle-income countries received HIV testing and counselling in 2013.

Same-sex sexual conduct is criminalized in 78 countries.

I am a person living with a disability.

23% of men with a disability do not return to seek health care because they were treated badly at a previous visit.

I am a child.

I am a transgender woman.

Transgender women are 49 times more likely to acquire HIV than all adults of reproductive age.

Of the 3.2 million children under the age of 15 living with HIV, 2.4 million are not accessing antiretroviral therapy.

I am a displaced person.

At the end of 2013, there were 51.2 million people forcibly displaced worldwide.

I am 50+.

The life expectancy of people aged 50 and older living with HIV and accessing treatment is the same as the life expectancy of others of the same age.

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En el Restaurante

Most of us eat out at some point and this is a great La comida – the food opportunity to practice your Spanish. See if these phrases ¿Listos para pedir? – Ready to order? is something you help. might hear from el camarero – the waiter, or la camarera La reserva – por teléfono – the waitress. If you need more time, just say cinco minutos más, five more minutes. Comparing the Spanish Quiero hacer una reservación. I want to make a and English translations on the menu is a good way to reservation. ¿Tienes una mesa para cuatro personas a las learn new vocabulary, but try to place your order in ocho este viernes? Do you have a table for four people at Spanish.

8 o´clock this Friday? To make your booking, revise days De primero, (quisiera) las gambas al ajillo – to start, (I of the week (lesson 22) and telling the time, eg: a las would like) the prawns in garlic. De segundo, el cordero siete y media – at 7.30; a la una - at 1pm. For more on con ensalada y papas arrugadas – next, the lamb with this, see lesson 10. salad and wrinkled potatoes. ¿Algo más? Anything more? ¿Desean una mesa adentro o en la terraza? Would you No, eso es todo. No, that´s all. Or sí - ¿tiene mantequilla like a table inside or on the terrace? Prefiero afuera - I para el pan? Do you have butter for the bread? prefer outside.

Another way to say ‘starter’ is el entrante, while a main ¿Para beber? course is el plato principal. You might also want to know if there is a fixed-price special - ¿Hay menú del dia?

You might hear ¿Algo para beber? Something to drink?

Or ¿Qué les pongo? What can I get you all? (lit: what do If they bring the wrong thing, you can say: no pedí papas I put for you). ¿Podemos mirar la carta? Can we look sino arroz – I didn´t order potatoes but rice, etc. at the menu? Para mí, una caña – for me, a small beer.

Para mí marido, una jarra – for my husband, a large beer Useful questions (also una cerveza grande). If you ask for wine, you can order a glass – una copa – or a bottle – una botella – de ¿Qué plato puedes recomendar? Which dish can you vino tinto, blanco o rosado. Wine can be dry, medium or recommend? If it´s not listed on the menu, check the sweet – seco, semi-seco o dulce. ¿Con hielo y limón? – price: ¿Cuánto es? ¿Contiene gluten? Does it contain with ice and lemon? Agua can be fría o natural (cold or gluten? Porque no puedo comerlo – because I can´t eat room temperature). Still water is sin gas – or fizzy is con it. ¿Tiene más servilletas/ vasos/cubiertos? Do you gas. Zumos, or juices can be natural – fresh or from the have more serviettes, glasses, cutlery? ¿Puede traer carton – del cartón. If you want another drink, just point un cenicero? Can you bring an ashtray? Or if you don´t to your glass and say otro más, por favor – another one want it, ask: ¿Puede quitarlo? ¿Qué postres hay? What desserts are there? Not forgetting the all-important please. ¿Dónde está el baño? Where is the bathroom?

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with Theresa Coe Free! The Gran Canaria Language exchange Over 1,000 people take part in language exchange gatherings and conversation clubs around the island. We meet weekly in Playa del Inglés, San Fernando, Arguineguin, Las Palmas, Valsequillo, Telde and Arucas. To find out more, check out: facebook.com/LEGintercambio or email me.

¡Salud! Making a toast We usually toast people´s health, saying salud! As we clink glasses. However a traditional Spanish toast goes as follows: Arriba! – up! (raise your glass) Abajo! – down! (lower your glass) Al centro! – to the centre (clink glasses) Adentro! – to the inside (take a sip) – equivalent to ‘down the hatch’ La cuenta, por favor To ask for the bill, say ¿Me da la cuenta por favor? If you hear ¿Qué tal la comida? You can say está muy rica – it´s very tasty, or estuvo deliciosa – it was delicious. To find out if they take cards, ask: ¿Se aceptan tarjetas de crédito? And to see if service is included: ¿Está incluido el servicio? You might want to leave a tip – una propina – though Canarians tend to leave a lot less than Brits.

Hear it pronounced As well as a great online dictionary for words or phrases, go to Spanishdict.com and click on a Spanish word or phrase to hear it pronounced correctly.

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“G.L.A.Y. applauds the efforts of any organisation, corporation, association or individual that promotes or encourages Tourism in Gran Canaria, as it directly benefits all residents and businesses living and working on the island. I believe that this is the first event worldwide using the banner of “Pride” for commercial purposes and not directly managed by the L.G.B.T community as a charitable organisation. “Pride” as a brand was created as a protest against the atrocities that occurred during Stonewall in 1969, and in many cultures continue today, and as such all proceeds of a “Pride” related event have historically been used to support L.G.B.T. organisations and their core aims within their community, and not taken as a profit.”

13 years ago GLAY, a community association, was set up to represent the interests of much of the LGBT community here on the south of the island. With the backing of a well known rights campaigner named Darius Jaen Rivero, they created the first Maspalomas PRIDE, to celebrate diversity and help fund LGBT community projects. We ask has this idea had its day? Time for a new way?

“While the organisers have offered a portion of the net proceeds of Winter Pride to G.L.A.Y. and the L.G.B.T community in Gran Canaria, there is no contract or commitment on their behalf as to the amount of the contribution, if any. While G.L.A.Y. and the L.G.B.T. community would be appreciative of any donation made to support our core aims on the Island, using the banner of “Pride” in a commercial venture resulting in revenue for an individual or The 2014 Pride was one of the best run ever, from a financial stand- profit seeking organisation is in direct contradiction of what the term “Pride” represents world wide, and we are concerned that the point, having paid off significant debts of the past and setting the repercussions of this may do more harm than good to tourism in event on course for the first time to make a profit for the associaGran Canaria, especially within L.G.B.T. communities internationally.” tion which should enable them to do more work in the community. Chris Shier. President, GLAY

A private group however seem to have caused a bit of a stir by having obtained an authorisation on paper which has paved the way for a second event to be launched, oddly without any real input from GLAY itself, the event’s official custodians. Sharp practice, revolutionary tactics or a perfectly valid change of pace for the brand and the community? We’ll find out more as events unfold.

The effort should be applauded for its audacity, however is unclear who stands to benefit. We asked GLAY for their comments:

We’d be inerested in any thoughts or responses to this: In just 13 short years, what began in Playa del Inglés as an exercise to promote unity, equality, acceptance and tourism for the burgeoning Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community in the South of Gran Canaria, has grown in to the single largest and most prestigious internationally acclaimed celebration of diversity and unity in The Canary Islands, and is recognised as one of the most important of its type in Europe. PRIDE is about community and its celebration.

Initially led by the prophetic vision of community activist, diversity and tourism campaigner, Dario Jaén Rivero, who sadly died in 2011; San Bartolomé de Tirajana became one of the first municipal councils in The Canaries to truly embrace the political and economic power of openly extending the hand of friendship to the LGBT community and promoting ideas of acceptance, liberty and self-determination in a world still rife with discrimination against those not included in what had been termed ´traditional family values´. Idea’s of ‘family’ have of course evolved significantly in that time, as has the PRIDE event itself.

Enlisting the help of powerful political entities, such as the Patronato de Turismo, Dario successfully argued that regardless of institutional prejudice, no one could deny that Gran Canaria had already managed to annually attract a formidable number of LGBT travellers, which stood at between 20-25% of the total tourism market in the south, (more than double the global average) and that to ignore any group with such potentially high spending and strong political power would be an error both culturally in a changing world and in terms of realising the opportunity to capitalise on Gran Canaria’s already existing image of warm acceptance and inclusivity. It made sense to cater to this group.

More than simply putting on an event at a commercial centre in the south of Gran Canaria, during what is traditionally the slowest time of year, his ideas centred around bringing about tangible cultural transformation, by persuading decision makers that it would simply be bad business practice to ignore such an ostensibly lucrative market. His ideas have never been more relevant than they are today.

Maspalomas PRIDE was created initially with the energetic help of the foreign resident community, working hand in hand with native isleños, Canario businesses, the ayuntamiento, the cabildo, the ministry for tourism, hoteliers, restaurateurs, bar owners, newspapers, radio, television and a whole host of others in order to encourage the LGBT community to come together in celebration of freedom for all people to love who ever they love without prejudice.

Today, in his absence, Darius’s dream has continued to grow, providing a unique opportunity to the businesses of the Yumbo centre to find ways to capitalise on an annual concentrated influx of visitors who are attracted to what is now a major international free music festival as well as an act of remembrance and unity. Worth fighting for?

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CANARIAN SPANISH understanding the locals

By Diego Mesa (Puerto Rico Language Centre) Any foreigner who has lived in the United Kingdom long enough will tell you how aware they became, quite early on, of the vast amount of different accents that still exist in the British Isles. There is the Geordie accent, the Mancunian, Irish, Scottish, Brummie, London East Enders, Devonshire, and so on. Therefore, what they feel they have to do to come to terms with all these different ways of speaking the same language, is to improve their English very quickly. This helps to relax into a conversation with the locals and to bring out your own personality in a more natural manner.

Similarly, Canarians too speak with a different accent to the mainland Spaniards and we have different words widely used across the seven islands. To fully integrate in Gran Canaria you have to get to know how the locals express themselves. Here’s a fun little guide to some of the most commonly used Canarian words you’ll hear:

CHACHO This is most used Canarian word you’ll find anywhere. It is short for ‘muchacho’ meaning boy or lad. It also has a feminine form ending in ´a´: Chacha, which in turn means girl or lass (if you are from Scotland).

Canarians use these words in a variety of ways: As an affectionate form of address equivalent to ´mate´. E. g. Chacho ven aquí. - Come here mate To express surprise e.g. ¡Chacho que haces! - What are you dojng?

Meaning servant. [Beware when using chacho or chacha with this meaning, it can be offensive towards some people!] e.g. Mi chacha me limpia la casa de nueve a doce de la mañana - My servant cleans at home in the morning between nine and twelve.

A more appropriate and less offensive alternative to ‘chacho/ a´ to refer to a domestic employee or home help would be ´empleado/a de hogar´.

PELETE This word is what Canarian people use instead of ‘frío’ meaning cold in specific reference to the weather. The word in Spanish actually comes from ‘pelo’, which means hair in Spanish. Therefore the word ´pelete´ in a traditional Spanish context translates as someone who is naked or stripped to the bare minimum. Canarians have taken this word as their own, using it when temperature feels very cold.

E.g. Por las noches hacía un pelete, que no había quien saliera a la calle - It was so cold at night, that no one would step outside on the streets.

It is important to remember, that learning a language does not involve memorising a set of phrases, or reminding yourself about the grammatical rules you learned about the other day, every time you come across a local you need to speak to. What it does involve, however, is practice on a daily basis without fear of making mistakes or feeling in anyway awkward. It doesn’t matter where you come from, language can be quite fluid and change from environment to environment and from person to person. Since almost all the conversations with the locals will take place out and about, learning some of the real colloquial phrases that you probably won’t find in any textbook is a fun way to break the ice and some might say, it’s a must. Therefore, learn a little everyday and be yourself while you try to speak the lingo, don’t be afraid to make mistakes, but do try not to offend too many people!

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A touch of AM DRAM OVER THE DUNES and UNDER MILK WOOD You may have noticed that 27th October was the centenary of the birth of the great Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas. Gran Canaria is planning its own celebration of one of the finest writers of the 20th century by doing a reading of Under Milk Wood, his “play for voices” written for the BBC and starring Richard Burton in the first broadcast performance in 1954. It’s on Broadway at the moment with Michael Sheen and Burton’s daughter Kate (mum Sybil was also in the first radio broadcast).

Here in Gran Canaria we need VOLUNTEER READERS. Although the play is certainly a celebration of Wales and we would welcome any Welsh voices to come forward, what the Canaries can bring out is the sheer universality of Thomas’s work – I think you can find Milk Wood and Llareggub (the village where it is set – try reading it backwards) in India, Russia, Australia, Germany, Norway, USA, Japan, China, and certainly Spain etc etc etc. So the international mix of Gran Canaria is ideal. Even if you do not read English well, there are small parts that go well with foreign accents!

Jenni writes:

The DATE is Wednesday 10th December.

The PLACE and time depend a bit on who shows interest so PLEASE MAIL ME if you might like to take part whether as reader or just audience.

CulturalCapital@TheCanaryNews.com A GREAT CHANCE TO GET TOGETHER AND SHOW THAT LIVING ON GRAN CANARIA IS ABOUT MORE THAN SEA, SAND, SANGRIA and SUN – though those are nice too. Dylan would have loved this place if he hadn’t drunk himself to death at the age of 39. Let’s help him live on!

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Buying or renting?

The World recession has changed attitudes to many issues. For expats intending to start a new life in Spain, the option of buying a home before the recession, possibly with a cheap Spanish mortgage was always a tempting one. Good value properties were readily and cheaply available, and mortgages were never too much of a problem to obtain, particularly if you had the right contacts. Of course, this was part of the problem, as Spain and other Mediterranean countries have since found out. As a result, many expat properties are often difficult to sell, many are in negative equity and mortgage foreclosures are a common occurrence, with many expats returning to their countries of origin, bitter and dejected.

term tenancies. Many expats do not speak the language fluently enough to check the conditions of their tenancy agreements, which should always be checked by a competent and reliable Spanish lawyer; however, select one who can advise you in your own language.

Barrie Mahoney was a head teacher and school inspector in the UK, as well as a reporter in Spain, before moving to the Canary Islands to launch and edit a new English language newspaper. He enjoys life in the sun as a columnist and author, and continues to write a series of popular novels, books for expats, as well as designing mobile apps and websites to promote the Canary Islands.

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If you do decide to buy a property, make sure it is for the right reasons. Before the financial crisis, I knew of many expats who would buy properties for a ‘song’, often on unregistered land, hoping to make a large Of course, much depends upon personal profit when it came to sell the property circumstances, including whether or not several months on. Many such speculators you have the capital or mortgage capability were caught out, and this is why so many to buy a home in Spain; if not, renting is expats are currently bitterly against the only available option. Maybe you are purchasing properties in Spain. Don’t let retired, have a home in the UK and intend their greed put you off. Remember that to return in the future, in which case you are primarily buying a home and it renting maybe the best idea. However, if shouldn’t matter too much if its value rises you intend to make a commitment to your or falls, particularly in the short term. new country and are prepared to accept If you still have a property in the UK, lucky the advantages, as well as the challenges, you, because it should provide you with One of the questions that I am frequently then buying a home would always be my some spare cash to get the new home asked by intending expats is “Should I buy preferred option. There is nothing quite that you are really looking for. However, or rent a home in Spain?” Many wouldlike owning your own home, albeit with don’t keep your old home just in case you be expats have listened to horror stories the help of a mortgage. However, this is wish to return. If you are moving on a from returning expats, or read in one of on the basis that you do your homework temporary flight of fancy, then it may be the Brit tabloids about the “horrors of thoroughly first. wise to keep it for a few months. However, buying a home in Spain” that advise not to If you intend to buy, my advice would be if you are aiming for a permanent life in a buy. “Never buy, always rent” has become to live in rented accommodation in an new country, my best advice is to cut the the current mantra for some people, and area where you plan to buy for a year or umbilical chord, and move on. If you should voiced particularly loudly by expats who two.

This is to ensure that you actually like return at a later date, so many things will still have a property to sell. However, this is the location, as well as giving you plenty have changed, that you probably won’t like not always the best advice for the intending of time to look for available properties your old home and neighbours anyway! It expat, and I would caution against taking in an area that you intend to make your is always best to move on and never to look such advice too seriously. permanent home. Look for bargains, back. I have known many expats to fret so A high percentage of emails that I receive bank forced sales, as well as talking to much about their old home, which is either from expats relates to circumstances where neighbours and friends. By all means, check left empty or let to strangers, that they things have gone badly wrong in the rental out the local estate agents as a good source are never able to let go and move on, and market. Short-term rentals now seem to of information but in most cases, it is the enjoy the real purpose of their new lives in be the order of the day and if you decide locals who know about the best local deals. the sun. to rent, be prepared to move frequently.

Whatever the cynics say, it is still relatively If you enjoyed this article, take a look at BarMany landlords are speculative and only easy to obtain a bank mortgage in Spain, rie’s websites: www.barriemahoney.com want to rent out properties during the and www.thecanaryislander.com or read ‘off peak’ season and like to move tenants particularly if you are working. Speak to several banks, lawyers, developers and his book, ‘Letters from the Atlantic’ (ISBN: on in time to make higher rentals during people that you know. Remember, that it is 9780992767136). Available as paperback, the main holiday period. Neither do landlords currently like tenants to feel too still often a case of ‘who’ you know and not as well as on Kindle, iBooks and Google Play Books. iPhone/iPad and Android Apps: Expat‘comfortable’. Many have been badly bitten ‘what’ you know in Spain. When the time comes to buy, look for a reputable Spanish Info, CanaryIsle and CanaryGay now available. during the financial crisis with unpaid rents lawyer. Make sure it is someone well and are cautiously against allowing long© Barrie Mahoney

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Destination Weddings

As a destination wedding planner you would expect me to It’s sure to impress your guests and it’s a nice thank you to obviously promote the benefits of choosing a wedding abroad. them for traveling a long way to join you in celebrating your special moment.

But I have the rare privilege of witnessing first-hand the overwhelming verification that destination weddings create More available dates unforgettable memories and exceptional experiences, not just Most destination weddings are held on weekdays as couple and for the bride and groom but for all their family and friends. their guests are on holiday.

Let me share with you why more and more people are not only More economical choosing to marry abroad, but why they choose our beautiful island to host their special day.

Wedding services in the Canaries are competitively priced without sacrificing on quality.

All year round warm weather

The Canary Islands are known to have one of the most favourable climates in the world.

We pride ourselves of being the home to some of the most highly regarded professionals in the wedding market.

With all year round sunshine coupled with the gentle Atlantic breeze brushing across the islands, hosting an outdoor ceremony and celebration is almost guaranteed to be blessed with spectacular weather.

Those are just a few of the many reasons why bride and grooms choose to celebrate their wedding abroad.

Great photos Gran Canaria offers a wide variety of photographic options to suit all styles, beaches, sea, harbours, quaint villages, cities, gardens and mountains.

The great weather, blue skies and the close proximity of all these great locations here in the north and south of the island, ensure great outdoor photos with vibrant lighting and colour.

Great bonding experience with family and friends There’s no better way to get to know each other than spending a holiday together.

Lots of pre and post wedding get togethers, along with being part of the wedding day, build bonds between the 2 families that last a lifetime.

Free flowing beverages Here in the Gran Canaria all events include free flowing wine, beer and soft drinks during the welcome cocktail and wedding dinner.

Something we northern Europeans are not accustomed to.

If you or a loved one is thinking of tying the knot, then Gran Canaria and all our wedding services providers welcomes you with open arms and would be honoured to be part of creating your dreams into reality.

Bernadette Garside Director and founder of The Perfect Wedding Company

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Germany, Austria and Italy are standing together in the middle of a pub when Serbia bumps into Austria and spills Austria’s pint. Austria demands Serbia buy it a complete new suit because there are splashes on its trouser leg. Germany expresses its support for Austria’s point of view. Britain recommends that everyone calm down a bit.

Serbia points out that it can’t afford a whole suit, but offers to pay for the cleaning of Austria’s trousers. Russia and Serbia look at Austria. Austria asks Serbia who it’s looking at. Russia suggests that Austria should leave its little brother alone. Austria inquires as to whose army will assist Russia in compelling it to do so. Germany appeals to Britain that France has been looking at it, and that this is sufficiently out of order that Britain should not intervene. Britain replies that France can look at who it wants to, that Britain is looking at Germany too, and what is Germany going to do about it?

Germany tells Russia to stop looking at Austria, or Germany will render Russia incapable of such action. Britain and France ask Germany whether it’s looking at Belgium. Turkey and Germany go off into a corner and whisper.

When they come back, Turkey makes a show of not looking at anyone. Germany rolls up its sleeves, looks at France, and punches Belgium. France and Britain punch Germany. Austria punches Russia.

Germany punches Britain and France with one hand and Russia with the other. Russia throws a punch at Germany, but misses and nearly falls over. Japan calls over from the other side of the room that it’s on Britain’s side, but stays there. Italy surprises everyone by punching Austria.

Australia punches Turkey, and gets punched back. There are no hard feelings because Britain made Australia do it. France gets thrown through a plate glass window, but gets back up and carries on fighting. Russia gets thrown through another one, gets knocked out, suffers brain damage, and wakes up with a complete personality change. Italy throws a punch at Austria and misses, but Austria falls over anyway.

Italy raises both fists in the air and runs round the room chanting. America waits till Germany is about to fall over from sustained punching from Britain and France, then walks over and smashes it with a barstool, then pretends it won the fight all by itself. By now all the chairs are broken and the big mirror over the bar is shattered. Britain, France and America agree that Germany threw the first punch, so the whole thing is Germany’s fault. While Germany is still unconscious, they go through its pockets, steal its wallet, and buy drinks for all their friends.

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“Lest We forget”

They shall not grow old as we that are left grow old.

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn; At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them.

This stanza from the Ode of Remembrance “For the Fallen” (World War 1) has been regularly recited in services of remembrance ever since it was written in 1914 by the poet Laurence Binyon. It was first printed that year in The Times in honour of the British and Commonwealth war dead, where huge losses, even this early in that atrocious war were experienced.

In this the Centenary Year marking the outbreak of the 1914-18 war, many tributes in remembrance of the sacrifice of human life during that war are being paid in many countries around the world, as a mark of respect for the courageous young men and boys who died for the cause.

The UK unique tribute has been the subject of much controversy.

It is a poppy art installation by artist Paul Cummings and designer Tom Piper which depicts the blood-swept land and the seas of red - redolent of that unspeakable war and its casualties. Tens of thousands of poppies pour like blood from The Tower of London progressively filling the moat in remembrance of those whose blood was shed for King and Country - and for those of us who live because of it. We have the supreme privilege of honouring that ultimate sacrifice today. The ceramic poppy display is a most graphic depiction of exactly 888,246 poppies, each a magnificent tribute to every brave young man – yes, all 888,246 of them - who died in service to their country and the commonwealth.

As always we have naysayers, men with political agendas and/ or newspapers to sell, who seem hell bent in appearing negative about almost everything in the world as they spout their pompous opinions of this artwork and its cause. Many comments are adverse and sadly do not come across as unbiased critique. To quote but one example which decried the humble poppy (albeit depicted in ceramics) stating “just too pretty to give a true reflection of the carnage of war”. What a load of un-pretty bovine excreta pours unchecked out of the mouths of the pessimist doesn´t it? To keep things in perspective, all needs to be measured against the overwhelming public support and the success of the associated fund-raising methinks.

All 888, 246 ceramic poppies were sold in record time at a cost

of 25 pounds each. The poppy in any and every form has always been associated with remembrance of our war dead, ever since it was immortalised in the poem “On Flander´s Fields” – significantly those fields full of poppies, beautiful yet made ugly by the stains of blood soaked battles.

In defence of his work the commissioned artist - who in my opinion ought not to be called to justify it, said “It is a powerful communal tribute to the great loss of human life and brave sacrifice of our armed forces. It is not an installation remembering war with its violence and barbarity: rather it is about loss, commemoration and appreciation of the human cost of war.” Well ´Amen´ to that.

Gran Canarian friends of mine from Monte Lentiscal, were in London recently and visited the poppy display. They told me how moving they found the whole experience - a poignant and most memorable tribute, particularly when at sundown The Last Post is played by a solo bugler every evening as names of nominated servicemen are read out from the Roll of Honour.

By Armistice Day - November 11th when the last poppy is laid at the Tower, over 4 million people are expected to have visited the site and 10 million pounds will have been raised to be shared between 6 Service charities. Love or hate ceramic poppies it seems they may be worth their weight in gold!

There is no glory in war. But as we remember and revere the great sacrifice made, may we ponder the words of the following well known patriotic hymn – loved by so many military families, as a fitting tribute to the men of WW1 on the 11th day of the 11th month at 11am when we hold the casualties and fatalities of all bloody wars in our hearts and minds, perhaps observing our own 2minute silence of respect.

I vow o thee, my country, all earthly things above, Entire and whole and perfect, the service of my love; The love that asks no question, the love that stands the test, That lays upon the altar the dearest and the best; The love that never falters, the love that pays the price, The love that makes undaunted the final sacrifice. .....

LEST WE FORGET. Kay Owen November 2014

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by Jeannie van Rompaey

Part Eight

This is the penultimate chapter of our 2014 fiction series.

Read the previous chapters at TheCanaryNews.com/Betrayed

For more information about the Author Jeannie van Rompaey please visit her website at JeannievanRompaey.com You can also find her on Facebook Barbara isn’t there. Just Queenie.

She pours two large gin and tonics. Her eyes are black pinpricks, her speech a touch incoherent. This is not the first drink she’s had today. I don’t think she waited until six to start.

She raises her glass. ‘Here’s to Gavin.’ I start to raise mine, but my hand stops in mid-air, as she adds, ‘May he burn in hell!’

She begins to tell me things I don’t want to hear, don’t want to know. I try not to listen, but the disjointed words shout out at me.

‘An incorrigible womaniser. Our life together a cruel joke. Always did what he damn well liked. Couldn’t resist a pretty face. Our entire marriage a sham. A compromise. I met him halfway. Fine, I told him, do what you damn well like when you are abroad. Foreign sluts don’t count. But don’t expect to share my bed with you ever again.’

‘Are you sure?’ I whisper.

confidences tomorrow. When she’s sober.

She’s always been such a proud woman.

‘Quite sure,’ she says.

She won’t want anyone to know her life‘All day I’ve had phone calls of condolence - story. Not even me. from women I don’t know. And some from ‘You had to stay with him because of women I do. From the Anglo Club, from St. Barbara. I understand that.’

Margaret’s.’

Her eyes narrow. ‘Barbara! I sacrificed But that doesn’t mean….’ everything for her, but she adored her She stands up and moves somewhat shakily father, took little notice of me. And then what did she do? Married a Canarian across the room. ‘Look at this.’ She hands me a letter. ‘It’s a love letter from a woman when she was eighteen. I told her mixed marriages never work.’ who lives in Las Palmas to Gavin.’

I read it. No doubt about it. A love letter. I look at the date.

‘But they’re still together and she has a lovely family.’

‘But this is dated thirty years ago.’

‘Came to me a year after she got married she did, her baby in her arms, said she’d left him. Expected me to take her in. I refused of course. Told her she’d made her bed and must lie on it.’

‘The date is irrelevant. I’ve a whole collection of these, sent to me, all with different dates, some remarkably recent.

This sort of thing has been going on all these years….’

That must have been the night Barbara came to me. She went to her mother first She sits down again and runs her hand over and Queenie turned her away.

Her face was very red and she leaned forward determined to share all the horror her eyes. ‘A matter of disrespect, that’s ‘She had to learn, as I did, that women have of her life with me. ‘We had an agreement, what it is.’ to put up with these things.’

Ellen, an agreement. It was an illness, this Whores, tarts, Las Palmas, disrespect. need of his to possess women and bind Do they? Barbara decided of her own Her entire life a sham them to him. So when I saw it was some accord to stay with Javier, after talking sort of addiction, I made a pact. “Not here, My entire life a sham…. it over with me. Not for the first time I not on my doorstep,” I said. “Be discreet. think that I was more of a mother to her She begins to tell me when it started, in For the sake of your daughter and out of than Queenie. Soon after that Barbara Scotland, in Dumfries, when Barbara was respect for me, not here in Las Palmas, began to train as a nurse. To give herself a baby. An affair with his secretary. That’s please.” ‘ a bit of independence, she said. I suspect why she agreed to come to Gran Canaria. she has had to close her eyes to various She pours herself another drink and gulps To get him away from her. What a joke. As if irregularities in her marriage just as it down. ‘And he broke that promise. one woman could ever be enough for him, Queenie did. I can only hope that it doesn’t Time after time. Can you believe it, Ellen? an incurable, inveterate womaniser. And cost Barbara as much emotional pain as it Whores. Tarts, here in Las Palmas. An insult worse. A sentimentalist. He had to make has Queenie. to me. A matter of disrespect.’ them love him.

My heart is beating fast.

I can’t help thinking she’ll regret these

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Everyone has at least one good book in them...

Bente Clod, novelist, poet, filmscriptwriter and writing teacher, author of 26 books, published her first novel in 1975 in her native Denmark.

She was strongly inspired by the women’s movement and the new approach to gender roles. Her novels and poetry about women, love and sexual politics quickly gathered wide acclaim both in Denmark and in the rest of Scandinavia.

Clod soon became involved in cultural politics in Denmark.

She also was a co-founder of a women’s press, a foundation for women artists and helped start a women’s group within The Danish Writers’ Guild. In the 1980s, leading Danish poet and critic Poul Borum stated “Bente Clod can write. If only she would write about something else.”

Today her books cover a wide range of genres, from stories about young people to two books about writing techniques.

She has been awarded several prestigious literary prizes. Her latest award was a grant from the Ragna Sidén Foundation.

Bente Clod started teaching creative writing in 1986. She combined the techniques and approaches she learned while studying script writing at the Danish Film School, with the anti authoritarian approach and philosophy she had learned in the women’s groups. Clod’s emphasis is on nurturing each student’s unique voice so that they will be able to express themselves in a truly personal manner and style.

Creative Writing Workshops in English Learn to write fiction with Bente Clod, highly acclaimed writer and writing teacher. Whether you want to get started or want to continue working on a project that has stalled – or perhaps you already have a clear idea you want to pursue... You will get constructive feedback on your writing from Bentes writing group using the unique method she has developed, learn how to structure a story, write dialogue, and use your senses – smell, taste, sound – to stimulate imagination and make the descriptions more vivid. You will also learn the narrative structure of a prose story and the non-structure of poetry.

Write your Life!

Do you want to write about your life, for future generations to see? Are you getting tired of diary writing or letter writing? Do you want to start a blog?

Come get some inspiration with Bente Clod.

Over the last 26 years this highly acclaimed Danish writing teacher has been engaged, on both sides of the Atlantic, in the art of writing as well as having translated substantial English works into Danish, such as the poetry of Emily Dickinson.

As an author Bente has had 26 books published, two of them about how to write. She is an accomplished teacher and script writer and lives for six months of the year right here in Las Palmas.

If you are interested in finding out more then either send us an email to WriteYourLife@TheCanaryNews.com or contact Bente Clod directly through her website www.Clod.dk

Dreams The bed time stories.

The stories that were untrue.

The story you told me one icy evening.

The untold stories.

The ghost stories that haunted our nights.

The stories about the hero’s journey.

The stories about the many shades of sex.

The stories of war and peace and love and hate These are the stories that dreams are made of.

- Bente Clod

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