Most websites about the Canary Islands were clearly written by people who’ve never actually been here. You can tell. The information is vague, the tone is relentlessly upbeat, and nothing in it would actually help you if you lived here and needed to know something useful.
That’s the gap we’re trying to fill.
How This Started
We’re the same people behind Tenerife Weekly and Tenerife Forum, which have been around long enough to build a proper reputation among residents and expats on the island. Not because we set out to become go-to resources, but because people kept coming back. Word spread. The communities grew on their own.
The issue was always that Tenerife got all the coverage while the rest of the archipelago was an afterthought. If you lived on Lanzarote or Fuerteventura or Gran Canaria, you were largely on your own when it came to finding news in English that was actually relevant to your day-to-day life. La Palma barely existed as far as English-language coverage was concerned. La Gomera even less so.
Each island is genuinely different. Different pace, different problems, different local politics, different reasons people choose to live there. Treating them all as one interchangeable place has always been lazy, and we wanted to do better.
What You’ll Find Here
News, for starters. Local government decisions, planning disputes, transport changes, weather warnings, events, the kind of stories that affect people who actually live on these islands rather than just visit them.
But also the practical stuff. What’s changing with residency paperwork. Which office you need for which thing. Why a particular stretch of road has been closed for four months with no explanation. The sort of information that takes hours to track down if you don’t know where to look or don’t have enough Spanish to get through the official sources.
We know these islands from the inside. We know which parts of the year the water cuts out in certain areas. We know what the queues are like at certain government offices on certain days. We’ve been caught out by a calima with washing on the line, same as everyone else. That kind of lived familiarity changes what you write about and how you write about it.
Who Actually Reads This
Honestly, quite a range of people. Residents who’ve been here for twenty years and want a reliable place to find out what’s going on without having to wade through Spanish-language sources. People who moved here in the last year or two and are still getting their bearings. Families back in Britain or Ireland or Germany who are keeping tabs on a place they’re thinking about moving to. Visitors who want more than a restaurant list.
There’s no shortage of content online that presents the Canaries as one long sunny holiday. We’re not here to add to that pile. We’re here for the people who want the real picture, whatever that looks like on any given day.
We’re Not a PR Operation
Nobody sponsors our coverage. No tourism board funds us. No hotel group gets a say in what we publish. The trust we’ve built with readers over the years across our platforms came from being straight with people, and we’re not about to throw that away.
We also try to stay honest about what we don’t know. These islands are complicated. Local politics can be opaque. Bureaucracy changes without warning. When something isn’t clear, we say so rather than filling the space with confident-sounding guesswork.
And when we get something wrong, which happens, we correct it. That’s just how it should work.
Say Hello
If something is happening in your area that we haven’t picked up on, we genuinely want to know. Drop us a message through the contact page. Some of the most useful things we’ve published started with a message from a reader who spotted something we’d missed.
You can also follow along on Facebook or X. We’re not precious about where the conversation happens.
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