Several Lanzarote Beaches Closed

Several Lanzarote Beaches Closed

Health has closed several beaches of Lanzarote due to the presence of algae that could be toxic to humans. This Sunday, Cucharas beach in Costa Teguise has dawned with a massive presence of algae in a different color than usual. At first they took the step of waving...

Lanzarote Summer Music Festival and Oktoberfest

The Plaza de las Naciones in Puerto del Carmen was the scene this weekend of The Summer Music Festival and Oktoberfest, traditional German beer festival. Two events that involved the collaboration of the City of Tias and the Cabildo of Lanzarote, and whose proceeds...

Very bad harvest of grapes from La Geria

The harvest this year has been the worst in the last 60 years, and they collected only 716,043.25 kilos, which is 55 percent less than in 2010, when 1,568,466 kilos were collected, as confirmed from the Control Board Denomination of Origin “Vinos de...

UIMP Lanzarote

I was disappointed to hear of the cancellation of the Autumn course due to (it would seem) shortage of funds that subsidise the course, within Tias council. The Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo has been organizing Spanish Courses for foreigners on Lanzarote...

Recycling cooking oil in Tías

You can now easily recycle your cooking oil. Tías has introduced 25 bins for this purpose, with 7 in Tías, 2 in Mácher, 1 in La Asomada, 1 in Conil, 1 in Masdache and 13 in Puerto del Carmen. They are easy to spot because of their orange colour and they look like...