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Seaplanes in the Canary Islands

A Canadian company, Harbour Air Seaplanes have approached the Canarian port authorities in Los Llanos on the island of La Palma and Santa Catalina in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria to seek approval to begin flights. Harbour Air are the largest all-seaplane airline in the world, they want to expand and offer their services connecting the Canary Islands from 2010.

The company has already had a successful meeting with the local authorities and are currently in the process of confirming how the operation would work for the security and procedures. Very little work would be required at either of these ports to establish the first seaplane connection between the capitals of these islands. Each seaplane would be able to carry up to 19 passengers per flight, they could be run as often as every 40 minutes and the journey time would be half an hour with a cost of around 40 Euros per person. Once the first connection is in place, Harbour Air would be interested in opening other routes to connect more of the Canary Islands.

Source Lanzarote information 26th July 2009

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The 21st World Cheese Awards Will Be Held In Gran Canaria.

After winning last year the 21st world cheese cwards will be held in Gran Canaria.

Between September 30 and October 3rd, 140 expert tasters and 3,000 products from all over the world will come together in an international exhibition with more than 300 participants.

Organised by the Guild of Fine Foods, for the first time in its history the World Cheese Awards will be held outside of the U.K. in the Auditorio Alfredo Kraus in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

Last year in Dublin, the Canary Islands won the best Cheese of the World award with a cured goats cheese bathed in paprika made by the Dairy Cooperative of Arico in Tenerife, followed by another fifteen awards in different categories to different cooperatives throughout the archipelago.

The councillor of Agriculture, Stockbreeding, Fishing and Diet indicated that is very important for Canaries and therefore Spain, to be the headquarters of a contest that each year attracts the attention of specialists from all over the world, who present such prestigious awards to those working within the food and agriculture industry.

In the words of the Guild of Fine Foods, "The World Cheese Awards are the cheese Olympics, the single event that unites the cheese world. It offers producers the opportunity to compete on a global stage where the prestige of winning Gold, Silver or Bronze can impact on sales enormously. In October 2009, at the invitation of the Canary Islands Government, the world’s largest international cheese competition takes place in Gran Canaria as part of a major global dairy event."3000 cheeses will be consolidated in their countries of origin and air freighted to Alfredo Kraus Auditorium, Las Palmas in readiness for the judging. Over 140 international experts from around the globe will also be flown in for the judging on 1st October before awarding Gold, Silver and Bronze to the best cheeses in the world. The judging will be filmed for broadcast around the world and on the Awards website."After the judges have completed their work, hundreds of buyers and retailers attending World Cheese 2009 will have their opportunity to taste competition cheeses and check if they agree with the experts’ verdicts."

http://www.finefoodworld.co.uk/news/WorldCheeseAwards2009/86.html

Cost Of New Housing Falls In Spain But The Canary Islands Is Less Affected

Canary Islands Real Estate, Fuerteventura Tenerife, Lanzarote and Gran Canaria property better than mainland Spain.

The cost of new housing fell 2% in the first quarter of the year compared with the same period in 2008, the first annual decrease since the property market bubble started to deflate in mid-2007.

According to data published today by the National Institute of Statistics (INE), the price of housing as a whole fell by 7.6% between January and March, the biggest decrease since prices started to fall in the second quarter of 2008. The main reason for the fall is still the slump in prices in the second-hand-property market, brought on by owners selling just to clear bank mortgage commitments, but it is the first time that new housing in Spain has also seen a decrease.

House prices fell in all the autonomous communities in the first quarter, with the biggest drops being registered in Catalunya (13.7%), Comunidad de Madrid (11.2%), Basque Country(10.8%), Navarra (10.1%), Aragón (9.7%), Balearic Islands (8.1%) and La Rioja (8%).Below national average drops were registered in Cantabria (7.2%), Comunidad Valenciana (5.2%), Canary Islands (4.3%), Andalucía (3.9%), Castilla and León (3.3%), Castilla-La Mancha (2.5%), Extremadura (2.2%), Asturias (1.8%), Murcia (1.6%) and Galicia (0.5%).

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Monarch Expands Canary Island Flights To Gran Canaria And Fuerteventura

Monarch airlines are to start a new Canary Islands year-round service to Gran Canaria and Fuerteventura .

Flights to the Canary island destinations will run from Birmingham, Gatwick, Luton and Manchester airports. One flight a week will operate to Gran Canaria from Birmingham and up to two flights a week will operate from London Gatwick and Manchester from October 19.
One flight a week will operate to Fuerteventura from Birmingham, Gatwick and Luton and up to two flights a week from Manchester from October 21.

Flights have gone on sale via the airline’s website for travel until March 27, 2010, with fares including taxes starting at £52.99 one way. The introduction of services to Gran Canaria and Fuerteventura brings the total number of flights operated by Monarch to the Canary Islands to up to 64 a week, with almost 500,000 seats available this winter - a 32% increase on last year.

Monarch flights and holidays managing director Liz Savage said: "We are delighted to be expanding our network to the Canary Islands with the launch of scheduled flights to Gran Canaria and Fuerteventura in addition to our existing routes to Tenerife and Lanzarote.“We are seeing huge demand for our mid-haul destinations - in June we carried 59% more customers to Lanzarote and 16% more customers to Tenerife compared to June 2008 and the addition of Gran Canaria and Fuerteventura means even more people can take advantage of our low fares and award-winning onboard service to these popular sunshine islands this winter.

Source Phil Davies

Maiden Voyage Of Cunards Queen Elizabeth to include the Canary Islands

Like the regal Queen Elizabeth I, Cunard has begun construction on what promises to be the premier cruising vessel on the high seas. She is scheduled for her maiden voyage in October of 2010, joining the Queen Mary 2 and Queen Victoria as the most famous ocean liners in the world.
Queen Elizabeth will feature the unique Cunard traditions, together with all the modern day luxuries Cunard’s guests have come to expect. In addition, some exciting new features will give the vessel her own sense of style and personality.
Named after the first Queen Elizabeth, one of Cunard’s greatest ships, the new Queen Elizabeth will reflect her predecessor in interior grandeur, décor and style. Art Deco features will pay homage to the original Queen Elizabeth and will allow the new ship to reflect an elegant era of travel. The extraordinary new vessel features 12 decks and carries more than 2,000 passengers.
In addition to the extensive Cunard onboard entertainment program, Queen Elizabeth will offer some unique strands such as country house parties at sea, evening piano sing-alongs and period dancing, from traditional ballroom to the jitterbug and the jive, all within the setting of this 21st-century ship. The ship will also reflect this great liner through artwork, memorabilia and its very own “Yacht Club.”

Queen Elizabeth will depart on her Maiden Voyage on 12 October 2010—a voyage which sold out in a record-breaking 29 minutes in April 2009. This 13-night celebration will leave from Cunard’s home port of Southampton and will call at Vigo (for Santiago de Compostela), Lisbon, Seville (Cadiz), Gran Canaria (Las Palmas), Tenerife (Santa Cruz de Tenerife, an overnight call), La Palma (Santa Cruz de La Palma) and Madeira (Funchal).
Her Maiden Season will run from October 2010 to January 2011 and include voyages to the Western and Central Mediterranean and the Caribbean. Fares start from just $1,195 per person for the five-night 26 November 2010 Gallic Debut voyage with ports of call at Amsterdam, Zeebrugge and Le Havre; while the 13-night Iberian Discovery voyage departing 1 December 2010 features fares from $2,395 per person, with ports of call at Vigo, Lisbon, Seville, Gran Canaria, Tenerife, La Palma and Madeira.
For more information and to book a voyage aboard the new Queen Elizabeth, call toll-free 1-800-7-CUNARD or visit www.cunard.com.

Entries have now closed for this year's Atlantic Rally for Cruisers

Entries have now closed for this year's Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (ARC), the 24th edition of the annual transatlantic rally. The Rally organisers, World Cruising Club, have now opened a waiting list after accepting 225 entries for the 2010 rally.

There are 28 countries represented in this year's event that starts on 22nd November in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. 200 yachts from all over the world, will cross the Atlantic to Saint Lucia, one of the most beautiful in the Lesser Antilles. The 2,700 nautical mile passage on the NE tradewind route takes typically takes between 14 and 21 days and the fleet reaches its destination and the finish line in Rodney Bay.

Whilst fundamentally a fun rally for cruising yachts, the ARC does have a more serious Racing Division, run under the auspices of the Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC). Yachts in the Racing Divisions are not permitted to use their engines for propulsion (unlike the cruisers), although use of autopilots is allowed.

Source Yachting Monthly 30th June 2009