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Las Palmas has a reputation for being a cloudy city, but is also famous as the city with the world's most pleasant climate. What's going on?
4 New Luxury Hotels For Gran Canaria
Four new 5 Star hotels are now of strategic importance to Gran Canaria, according to the Canarian government.
Tuesday, March 22: Sunny and warm in south Gran Canaria this week but cloudier in the north.
MARCH 17, 2016: The Trade Winds come back towards the end of the weekend and a wet front could affect us from Sunday. Quick, get to the beach.
Here are the best Gran Canaria videos posted on the internet so far in March 2016.
Think all south Gran Canaria's beaches are covered in parasols and surrounded by restaurants? Some are, but there are plenty of quiet, natural beaches left. It's just that the locals keep quiet about them.
A Gran Canaria guide for first-time visitors with links to the most useful pages on the website, including all the best resorts, beaches and things to do. Once you've read them, you'll know exactly what you want to do during your first visit to Gran Canaria.
March 13, 2016: The Trade Winds have faded and that means great weather this week.
Tauro Beach Flattened As Development Work Goes On
March 2016: Tauro beach has been flattened by heavy machinery laying the foundations for its new, Caribbean sand replacement.
Buying a property in Gran Canaria is a big decision but it doesn't have to be a big risk. Here's everything you need to know to do it right.
Cool Runnings: Las Palmas Football Team Win 3 In A Row
Three wins in a row and Las Palmas football team may pull off its own Cool Runnings story and stay in Primera Liga.
Cold air from the north brings clouds to most of the Canary Islands today and tomorrow. They will clear up during Wednesday and it looks like warm, African air will take over towards the weekend.
Gran Canaria's biggest butterfly, the Monarch, is from the USA but colonised the Canary Islands by flying across the Atlantic Ocean and is now a resident.
04.03.2016: The dust that covered Gran Canaria over the last couple of days has now blown away and the Trade Winds are back but not strong.
Gran Canaria visitors ask us a lot of questions about health matters so here's the answers to the mst common ones in a useful FAQ.
Hotel Building Spree Could Create 100,000 Canary Islands Jobs
If the Canary Islands lift the self-imposed moratorium on building new hotels and tourist accommodation, they could generate up to 100,000 stable jobs within 10 years, according to a study by local think tank CATPE.
March 02, 2016: Six must-see Gran Canaria videos released this week; All in one convenient place.
The last of the cloud and rain that affected north Gran Canaria over the weekend will fade by midday on Tuesday. The rest of the week will be warm and sunny all over the island.
Gran Canaria beautiful when you look at it from the beach, but here's a selection of videos that show that there's far more to see.
February 2016: Five great Gran Canaria videos publish this month, all in one convenient place.
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The Parafarmacia In Gran Canaria Is Not A Chemist!
If there is one thing we hate it is visitors being tricked in Gran Canaria. In the past we've warned about overcharging at Gran Canaria chemists, and rip off electronics shops in resorts.
In this Tip Of The Day we return to the island's chemists or rather, to the island's fake chemists.
A chemist in Gran Canaria is called a Farmacia and always has a green cross sign. Farmacias are the only place tobuy medicine in Spain, even basics like paracetamol.
However, there is another kind of shop in Gran Canaria that looks and sounds like a chemist but doesn't sell medicine. This is the Parafarmacia and it also uses a green cross sign.
A parafarmacia is a herbal medicine shop that is not allowed to sell any normal medicine such as paracetamol, ibuprofen or antibiotics.
Instead, parafarmacias sell herbal alternatives to medicine but don't have to prove that they work and they can charge whatever they want.
We recently heard from a visitor to Gran Canaria who went into a parafarmacia and was charged 40 euros for a herbal alternative to Ibuprofen. It was only when they read the label that they realised what had happened.
To locate a genuine farmacia, see this website and search within your municipio (Puerto Rico is in Mogán, Playa del Inglés is in San Bartolomé de Tirajana). At weekends and on fiesta days many farmacias close but there is always one open, known as the farmacia de guardia, in each municipio.
Search for the nearest one to you with this tool.
Lex Says: To keep costs down, see this article for the way to ask for generic medicine rather than expensive branded alternatives.
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