I spent the weekend visiting a friend on El Hierro. We went for a holiday this summer ( see The End of the World) and shortly afterwards, my friend took a job there. So I abandoned my family on Friday lunchtime and got on the plane. The landscape around Isora looks a lot like the Yorkshire Dales – lots of dry stone walls and short grass. And then you notice…
View from La Peña, El Hierro, the smallest of the Canary Islands No, this blog’s still about La Palma. But there’s practically nothing on the web in English about El Hierro, compared to not much on La Palma. And I thought that anyone trying to decide which one to visits would appreciate at least a little information. El Hierro is shaped roughly like an equilateral triangle sucking its cheeks in….
Isn’t it funny how, as soon as you don’t have to do something, it becomes appealing again. Like blogging. El Hierro used to be the end of the world, and so the zero meridian went through the west of the island, before it moved to Greenwich. On Thursday we went to see it. It really does feel like the end of the world. The whole island’s rather dry, and this…