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The company SSP has opened the first Starbucks on Gran Canaria. You'll find it in the departure hall of the Gando airport.
SSP owns 18 businesses in the airport of Gran Canaria, of which 7 have been opened in the last half of 2009.
SSP runs restaurants and bars on airports, train and petrol stations in more than 31 countries.
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 Maspalomas has opened a blog for its carnival 2010, where you'll find the programme. It's available as an image, which doesn't have a very good resolution, but it can be read. Just click on the image to the right to see the original.
carnival will take place from 11 til 21 march, and its theme is the "Eurovision Song Festival".
The Maspalomas carnival blog site is to be found here: www.carnavalmaspalomas2010.blogspot.com
If you'd like to download the program as a pdf (better than the provided .jpeg), go to this site:
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 The Guardia Civil has arrested four persons and confiscated designer goods worth € 2,225,750. The goods were seized in four stores in the shopping centre of Puerto Rico, Phase I in the south of Gran Canaria.
The police investigation was launched after it had been made aware that in several stores of this shopping centre counterfeit designer goods were sold. These included clothing, football equipment and accessories with logos, designs and labels of leading national and international brands such as Prada, Armani, Louis Vuitton, Dolce Gabanna, Burberrys, Adidas, Nike and Tous.
The Guardia Civil intercepted a total of 5750 articles, including bags, belts, glasses, shirts, shirts, trousers and hats, which have a total value of approximately € 2,225,750. |
 The Gran Canaria government will extend the network of trails and promote the pilgrimage route to Santiago from San Bartolomé de Tirajana to Gáldar, with an investment of 1.2 million euros between this year and next. The estimated number of visitors to the center of the island could grow between 10% and 15%, especially Germans.
The Tourist Board of Gran Canaria found that Germans are more interested in rural tourism and generally while enjoying their stay in Gran Canaria opt for excursions into nature. On internet portals where tourists stick their holiday photos Germans have been found to portray the inner parts of Gran Canaria, while the British photographed the dunes of Maspalomas.
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Spain approved a sweeping new law that eases restrictions on abortion. Thereby declaring the practice a woman’s right and doing away with the threat of imprisonment, in part of a drive toward liberal policies that has angered conservatives and the Catholic Church.
The new law allows the procedure without restrictions up to 14 weeks and gives 16- and 17-year-olds the right to have abortions without parental consent.
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 The newly opened Lidl supermarket on Tenerife is literally stormed during the first days after opening. The first customers had been waiting in line in front ot the supermarket in Puerto de la Cruz at 07:00 o'clock already. Soon there were long queues outside the shop doors, which nicely swung open right on time at 09:00 o'clock.
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 Hi, a few months ago, I created a Gran Canaria News twitter account. Whenever a news article is published on Gran Canaria info, a 'tweet' is sent to it and all 'followers' receive the tweet.
I've now thought of a better way to use Twitter for people on Gran Canaria. I've set up a twitter account called "gctweeties" and everybody can send tweets to it. They are unmoderated for the time being, to see how it goes. The idea is, if you hear of or see something interesting, or are at something interesting, you can tweet it. The 'interesting' bit obviously has to do with Gran Canaria for this to work.
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After 10 long years of rebuilding and refurbishment, the reopening of this well known Las Palmas theatre appears to be in sight.
The announcement that the theatre is expected to reopen in early 2011 followed a visit to the site by the Mayor of Las Palmas and the head of the island government's Culture Department.
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 If you're in the South West of Gran Canaria, Mogán and that area, do stay inside for a few more hours. A red alert has been issued because of winds that could reach 160 kilometers per hour.
Later in the day, those winds will go and by the end of today things should be pretty much like normal. |
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 Plans have been formulated to instal a cable car between Tejeda and the base of Roque Nublo.
The island's government has stated however that it has not been approached formally and has anyway said that special approval would be required in view of the fact that the cable car would be sited in a national park. Residents are keen to support the scheme to help the reverse the drain in population that has occurred in recent years.
Source: La Provincia (24.2.10)
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The Spanish State Metereological Agency is predicting that another storm is heading towards the Canary Islands and will arrive in La Palma on Friday 27 February.
It is too early to forecast if the weather system will be as severe as the previous one. In the meantime, clear skies are expected so any sun worshippers are advised to make the most of the sunny spell.
Source: La Provincia (23.2.10) |
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