Our readers regularly send us messages and emails regarding Lanzarote, here are some of your thoughts that we printed in the June edition.
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PAPAGAYO MEMORIES
Dear Editor,
I was interested in these descriptions of early Lanzarote. My father was among the first foreigners to buy in Lanzarote in Playa Blanca in 1963. The house has gone, destroyed I believe by the mayor, who wanted to build a seaside promenade to a hotel he was building. That was the scuttlebutt, anyway! Since my father was an ambassador, the large house on the other side of Playa Blanca’s Bay has named itself “Casa del Embajador” (which it is not).
Lanzarote was a paradisiacal place then; I think of it every day. Oddly enough, though we went practically every day to Papagayo in our Citroen 2CV (we were almost always the only people on whichever beach we chose to swim on) we never knew there were other beaches further east, which you can see on Google. They weren’t marked on the maps we had.
Best,
Matthew Montagu-Pollock
MORE WHAT’S ON!
Dear Editor,
We enjoy your magazine every time we are here on the island, twice a year for some months, and this is the first time I’m writing to you. We try to keep up with what’s going on the island, reading your Gazette, keeping up with online newspapers etc, but we still miss events by not having known of them, or come across them by chance only. We would appreciate it if the Gazette could offer an enlarged cultural diary.
Anneke Kehlenbeck,
Hamburg
Ed: Thanks for your praise, Anneke. We do our best to cover upcoming events, but many are publicised too late to appear in the magazine. We’d suggest keeping an eye on our daily posts on www.gazettelife.com, or try the excellent masscultura.com website.
PICK IT UP!
Dear Sir,
I have been visiting Lanzarote for 20 years now. I was “stranded” here during Covid so decided to make the island my home. Costa Teguise is a wonderfully friendly place to live but dog owners are making the place a MESS. Please, please, please – pick up after your pup! The amount of dog mess is making our lovely town a mess!
Thank You,
A Concerned Costa Teguise Resident
NO WORRIES
Dear Gazette,
I was amused to read in certain British publications about how thousands of “defiant” British tourists had made the “bold decision” to continue visiting the Canaries after the recent protests against the effects of mass tourism.
Maybe, just maybe, those tourists realised that there was absolutely nothing to worry about; that the islands remain as welcoming as ever and that the protests had nothing to do with them personally and everything to do with how the islands are run.
I was at the protest in Arrecife, and it was an inspiring, colourful, and noisy event that raised issues that would be supported by any tourist who genuinely loves the islands.
D. Agnew
