‘That’s not Mexico,’ I exclaimed. The location at the start of BBC’s Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue was instantly identifiable. ‘That’s Abades on Tenerife.’ When I Googled it, AI disagreed, insisting only Gran Canaria appeared in the series, Jardín Canario de Viera y Clavijo to be exact. Not for the first time, nor the last, AI was wrong. The leper village that...
You know that feeling, when the last day of your holiday looms and you head to the beach or the pool, feel the warmth of the sun on your skin and wish you could stay forever? I think the first time that we were really aware of being on the ‘right’ side of that feeling was the first time we took visitors back to the airport for their return flight while we...
The idea was to write a factual book detailing accounts of mystery and magic in the Canary Islands, especially as I hadn’t seen much written about the folklore of the islands in English. Islands full of strange stories Years and years of exploring each of the islands on foot left me with a whole raft of amazing tales I’d never heard about before. It started with our...
There was a scene in Celebrity Traitors where Scottish actor Mark Bonnar took a step away from his fellow celebs and eyed them suspiciously, trying to work out who the traitorous rogues in the pack were. In a world where misinformation, misdirection, and fake news are rife, it’s more important than ever that we all do a ‘Mark Bonnar’ every so often. Take the news...