Thirty-eight thousand people in one Facebook group: how the Canary Islands’ digital nomads built their own community
The Facebook group “Tenerife Remote Workers and Digital Nomads” has more than 38,000 members. The one covering the whole archipelago, “Canary Islands Digital Nomads & Remote Workers”, tops 17,000. These numbers alone say something official tourism data rarely captures: behind the label “digital nomad” sits an ecosystem built largely on informal networks, assembled from the […]
Three thousand people, a hundred countries, a whole month: what Audi’s world convention leaves behind in Gran Canaria
Throughout September, more Audis than usual are crossing paths on Gran Canaria’s roads. It is not a coincidence. The island is hosting the Audi Partner Convention 2026, the international gathering that brings together all of the German carmaker’s markets and its worldwide dealer network, with roughly 3,000 people arriving from more than 100 countries. This […]
Gran Canaria turns a volcanic crater into a battery as its desalination plant starts testing
Twenty metres below sea level, inside a 1,300-metre intake pipe, Atlantic seawater has begun flowing toward the interior of Gran Canaria. The island’s Water Council (Consejo Insular de Aguas) has confirmed that seawater intake for the Salto de Chira project is complete, and that desalination plant testing is now underway ahead of pumping water, in […]
A $600 laptop in 2026 might have half the RAM it had a year ago. Here’s why
Buy a $600 laptop in 2026 and, at a glance, it’ll look identical to last year’s model. Open it up, though, and there’s often a less pleasant surprise waiting: a dimmer screen and 8GB of RAM where you’d have gotten 16GB at the same price not long ago. This isn’t a one-off. It’s not an […]
The Canary Islands try to move past swimwear: island fashion hits Madrid’s runway
Ask anyone who has never set foot in the Canary Islands to describe the archipelago’s fashion, and the answer will probably be: swimwear. That’s exactly the association nine Canarian designers and labels are setting out to break on 17 September, when they take the runway at Madrid’s Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, one of Spanish fashion’s biggest […]
120,000 people in eight weeks: what Siam Night leaves behind in Tenerife
Twenty-ninth of August, just past midnight: the lights go down over Siam Beach as Siam Park wraps its eighth and final week of Siam Night 2026. The numbers released a few days later put attendance at over 120,000 visitors across July and August, up 20% on last year’s edition and, the park says, an all-time […]
Hatch: Meta’s unconfirmed plan to bring AI agents to Instagram and WhatsApp
A caveat up front: what follows comes from internal documents cited by news outlets, primarily The Information, and has not been confirmed by Meta. That said, the picture emerging from multiple independent reports, including Forkast News and The American Bazaar, is consistent and worth paying attention to. The project is called Hatch, and it would […]
For Five Days, a Shopping Mall Becomes Gran Canaria’s Most Creative City
Turning 85% of a shopping mall’s floor space into thirty themed zones isn’t an everyday sight. Yet that’s exactly what’s happening this week at Centro Comercial Alisios on Gran Canaria, where Gran Canaria Experience, also known as GCX26, returns for its second edition. The festival, free and open to everyone, takes over the mall through […]
Up to €25 to walk on Teide: the small fee hiding a much bigger debate
Anyone wanting to hike trail PNT-07, which climbs toward Montaña Blanca and La Rambleta, or PNT-10, named after Telesforo Bravo, has had to budget for something new since January 19, 2026: a fee of up to €25 for visitors who don’t live in the Canary Islands, reduced rates for archipelago residents from outside Tenerife, and […]
What happens to the Canary Islands’ waste? A midpoint check on the circular economy
What happens to a piece of packaging tossed out at a supermarket in Las Palmas, or the food scraps from a restaurant in Puerto de la Cruz? That’s the question the Canary Islands’ Circular Economy Strategy, launched in 2021, has been trying to answer island by island, and on 1 June 2026 the team managing […]