I was so fortunate to witness this amazing phenomenon this morning – photo taken from my balcony. For those interested, this is called a 22° Halo and it is produced by light interacting with ice crystals in the atmosphere…
We had some serious winds hitting Lanzarote yesterday – not much rain though, thanks goodness. My weather station only reported 0.5mm in the afternoon. I went down to Playa Chica in the Old Town of Puerto del Carmen because it´s the place where there are always the most impressive waves when we get those rare…
At 37 degrees Celsius today, I saw this street tom in Arrecife getting his water intake from whatever source he can (a leaking pipe in the building´s wall)…. beggars can´t be choosers.
After the wind noisily whipping around my house like nobody´s business last night, it is today still near gale force here in Lanzarote, even in our usually quite calm Puerto del Carmen in the South of the island, with gusts of more than 40km/h. I feel sorry for those tourists nervous of flying (and those…
We have been having a heatwave in the Canary Islands since last weekend until Wednesday of this week, and in particular Lanzarote and Fuerteventura were hit with temperatures of over 40C degrees (105F). My body transformed into a state of joy during that time. I almost felt like I could fly and even went swimming…
Most of my friends and family think that living on the tropical island of Lanzarote I must be going to the beach a lot, simply because “it´s there”. Well, the truth is…. I don´t! I guess when you have something on your doorstep every day you soon start taking it for granted. Take all the…
Moving from cold, wet London to sunny, dry Lanzarote was one of my best moves ever. All my adult life I never dealt too well with the typically damp British weather, and when in 2004 I decided to live somewhere other than London, returning to my equally wet home town Hanover in Northern Germany did…