Our readers regularly send us messages and emails regarding Lanzarote, here are some of your thoughts that we printed in the September edition.
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PASSPORT QUEUE SCANDAL
Dear Gazette,
The recent queues at passport control, caused by the fact that the police have finally been ordered to do what they should have been doing since 2021, are scandalous.
I don’t blame the poor cops who have to stamp the passports. I’m sure their job is hard enough. I do blame their superiors, or whoever failed to foresee the obvious fact that passport stamping for Lanzarote’s most important tourist market would require significantly more human resources.
Here’s a heads-up for the government department responsible for staffing at Spanish airports: the EES will be coming in November, and someone will need to fingerprint thousands of Brits during the Christmas holiday season. Have a think about it, guys.
David Eakin
A QUESTION OF AESTHETICS?
Dear Ed,
Flying over France and Portugal to Lanzarote it’s possible to see plenty of solar panels glinting in the sunshine. So why aren’t there any on Lanzarote? Is it to do with aesthetic values? There are also only about a dozen wind turbines, which hardly shows commitment to renewables.
It seems like an island with unlimited supplies of sunshine, wind, waves and geothermal heat prefers the aesthetic beauty of the permanent smudge on the horizon from the fuel oil being burnt at its ugly power station.
From Drew McAllen, via email
FAMARA IS NOT A CAR PARK
Dear Editor,
I visited Famara recently and was confronted with the usual doublerow of haphazardly parked vehicles stretching all along the beach front.
So I simply drove into Caleta de Famara itself and found a free parking spot within seconds. If you’ve got heavy surfboards or other equipment, I can see the need to park up on the beach front, but otherwise it’s just lazy.
Someone needs to get this situation in hand. Just because the problem has existed for years doesn’t make it OK. Famara’s spectacular beach is not a car park.
Yours,
Min Sellers
