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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that travel to Spain will be possible again from December 2nd after a four-week travel ban. However, travelers returning from Spain must adhere to a two-week quarantine period. But the quarantine period does not apply to holidaymakers traveling home from the Canary Islands, as our islands are on the list of the »safe travel corridors«! We see this as a positive sign and look forward... read more...

After the Canary Government initially requested a negative test from November 14th on in order to move into an accommodation in the Canary Islands, it is now fundamentally necessary to present a negative PCR test for entry from a "risk area" to Spain! So if you enter Spain from 23rd November on from a country classified as a "risk area", you can only do so with a negative PCR test! The... read more...

In order not to think about the pandemic and the corona virus all the time, I started to deal again with one of my favorite topics, namely architecture history!

Here you can find my latest video on baroque architecture:

English subtitles available!

Picture credits on my Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/ottlanzarote

The Canary Islands local government announced yesterday that new regulations for entry to the islands will soon apply. These will probably be announced today in the Canarian Official Gazette (Boletín Oficial de Canarias) and will come into force a few days later. The new entry requirements are as follows: Holiday guests who come to the Canary Islands must bring a negative test for Covid-19. It does NOT have to be a... read more...

The Canary Islands are no longer a corona risk area. The Robert Koch Institute in Germany updated its classification list on October 22nd at 9 AM and removed the popular holiday region from the list of risk areas. This means that the Federal Foreign Office's travel warning is expected to be lifted, and there is no test or quarantine requirement for returning holidaymakers when they come back from their holidays... read more...

This morning's sunrise, as seen when I woke up this morning on my way to the kitchen. It's so cool, to start a day with such a beautiful atmosphere, so I took it as a sign that a new era will begin and we can leave these times behind us as soon as possible. Due to the Corona restrictions actually existing in most of the European countries we have just very... read more...