In this context approximately 20 kilometres (42%) of the altogether 48 kilometres long route will take their course subterrestrial, further 3.7 (7%) kilometres will be made up of crossovers. The remaining distance of about 24,28 kilometres (51%) shall be covered abovegroundly.

Up to now 9 stages are regarded as fix points, such as Parque de San Telmo (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria), the hospital Insular, Jinamar, Telde, the airport, Carrizal, Arinaga, Vecindario and finally Playa del Ingles.

Nevertheless, the basically given approval of the isle administration does not state concrete aspects concerning the real start of construction of the train connection because a significant amount of details has to be clarified yet.

With this project idea other communes were also made considering similar ventures. Arranging a study checking the actual feasibility of an additional connection to Agaete in the north of the isle as well as the efficiency and profitability of the “Gran Canaria- Express” is the essential challenge at this time, Román Rodríguez declared at a press conference.

I’m back again yeeaayy!! hahaha
I have been very busy the last months and I just wanted to start over again with some good news.

Therefore, here I go. The ‘port of Mogan‘ and the ‘Amadores beach‘, both in the municipality of Mogan, have been awarded once again with the so called "blue flag", which is given by the ‘Federation for Environmental Education’ for excelcent quality, cleanliness, accessibility and security of their waters and beaches.

The other "blueflagged" beaches on Gran Canaria are: the ‘Las Canteras‘ beach in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the ‘Melenara‘ beach in Telde and the beaches of ‘San Agustín‘, ‘Playa del Inglés‘ and ‘Maspalomas‘ in San Bartolomé de Tirajana.
The other "blueflagged" ports are: the port of ‘Pasito Blanco‘ in the municipality of San Bartolomé de Tirajana and the only "blueflagged" non coastal area is the nature park of the ‘Dunes of Maspalomas‘, also in San Bartolomé

That’s nice, huh?? 27 beaches and 3 ports are "blueflagged" this year on the entire archipielago.

for thos of you who are interested, and if you voted yesterday for regional elections you probably are, the results are commonly known but i will summ them up a bit. Though i don’t like to talk about politics, this change for Las Palmas is worth to mention.
Big knock out for the Partido Popular in our capital since the PSOE won with absolute majority, ending a 3 terms in a row of “popularity”.

Jeronimo Saavedra (PSOE) is new Las Palmas major, Jose Manuel Soria (Partido Popular) is president of the council again but socialist candidate Juan Fernando Lopez Aguilar (PSOE) has 10 days to state a vote of no confidence and make a pact with other parties to gain the presidency. The parliament results are: 26 M.P.’s for PSOE, 17 M.P.’s for CC-PNC, 15 for the PP and 2 for CC-AHI.

Telde got took over almost entirely by Nueva Canarias and San Bartolomé (the south of the island) is mainly in control of Agrupacion de Vecinos lead by Marco Aurelio Perez.

For more detailed results look it up here: Municipalities – Council – Parliament

posted a comment the Vegueta post, asking for some information about some museums here on the isle. Since i think this is something interesting to know for everybody, i prefer posting it as a normal post rather than as a response on a comment.

Here are the different museums:

Among many other things to be done in the future, this is the most extraordinary one. In a term of 5 to 15 years, more than 3.000 hectares of different species of trees are going to be reforested. The actual wood grounds are estimated to 14.000. Therefore and after some documents dealing with protected areas are ratified, Gran Canaria will gain a third of its actual wood grounds.

Mainly pine-trees and other species common in thermophilic woods are to be reforested. The areas where it’s going to be done first are:
- The "Nublo" rural park, extended throughout 8 municipalities: Tejeda, San Nicolás de Tolentino, Mogán, San Bartolomé de Tirajana, Artenara, San Mateo, Valleseco and Moya.

- The "Tamadaba" natural park, concerning Agaete and San Nicolás de Tolentino.

- The "Pilancones" natural park, in San Bartolomé de Tirajana.

- The "Los Marteles" natural reserve, also extended throughout 8 municipalities: Valsequillo, San Bartolomé de Tirajana, Agüimes, Santa Lucía de Tirajana, Telde, Ingenio, San Mateo and Tejeda.

- The protected landscape of "Pino Santo", in Santa Brígida.

That is a great initiative. Great news, thumbs up.

for those of you who ever doubt it, yes its true. hahah
Unlike other countries around europe, in Spain, rather than set up a christmas tree and wait for “Santa” the 24th at night or 25th in the morning, it’s more usual to set up a representation of the nativity. Those who have enough space built it big enough space te create a complete landscape and let the (Three) Wise Men get every day a bit closer to it.

Almost every city on the island has at least one and there are some, really worth to visit. Here are some of them you might want to visit:

- Culture House yard – Arucas – until January 5th
- Old “Jesús Sacramentado” school, “Plaza de Santiago” – Galdar
- “Las Arenas” shopping centre – Las Palmas – until January 8th
- “San Antonio” church – Mogan – until January 6th
- “Tomás Morales” Museum-House – Moya – until january 8th
- “Plaza de Los Llanos” – San Gregorio, Telde

Beside this, most of the municipalities also have a nativity play, so here are a few of them:

- Veneguera, Mogan – December 25th – 20:00
- “Los Cardones” ravine, La Aldea – December 25th – 19:00
- “Plaza de los Espinales”, Agüimes – December 22nd – 20:30
- Lo Blanco, Teror – December 16th – 20:20