Basalt columns under the Los Gigantes cliffs, the island’s best shore dives, dive centres with their real ratings, what Spanish diving law actually requires, and the safety facts many guides get wrong.

Tea-pine balconies, Mudéjar ceilings, a cathedral of Byzantine icons and the town a volcano froze in time: how to read the buildings of the old north.

Who to call, where the nearest 24-hour A&E really is, how EHIC/GHIC works in practice — and the pharmacy that opens every day of the week.

Tenerife’s lava pools are the island’s most beautiful swim — and its least forgiving. Where to go, when to go, and the rules written in December 2025.

Spain’s highest peak by cable car, the summit permit that is no longer free, La Palma’s 2021 crater, Lanzarote’s fire mountains, and why the rumbling under Teide is nothing to fear.

The reality: harbour cocktails and nightly live music here, the Verónicas strip and rooftop bars thirty minutes south — and how to get home at 3am.

Guanche-style pottery made ten minutes from your door, UNESCO streets in La Laguna, flower carpets, wine taverns with three dishes — and wrestling that came back after 42 years.

The 50-minute ferry to Columbus’s last port, whistled languages and laurel forests, a volcano observatory at 2,400 metres: how to see other islands without moving apartments.

What a purchase really costs, why the 2025 holiday-let law changed everything for investors, and the family agency that has watched this resort grow since the 1970s.

Which beach for which day: local black sand, the south’s Blue-Flag golden bays, wild Benijo and the lava pools locals swim when the swell is up.

The real market days near Los Gigantes, the south’s malls, Santa Cruz’s 1940s food hall, and why the Canaries’ tax status matters at the checkout and at customs.

Siam Park and its record run of “world’s best” awards, Loro Parque, the €10 monkey park toddlers adore — with prices and ratings as of July 2026.