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Car Hire in Gran Canaria – The Complete Insider Guide to Exploring the Island by Car

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Why Car Hire in Gran Canaria Changes Everything Gran Canaria has a reputation built on sun, sand and the resort strip running from Maspalomas to Playa del Ingles. That reputation is accurate but incomplete. The island is also a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve with almost half its territory under protection, a dramatically varied interior of volcanic […]

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5 best scenic drives in Tenerife - route map showing all five drives colour-coded across the island.

5 Best Scenic Drives in Tenerife (With Route Map and Driving Tips)

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Most visitors to Tenerife spend their holiday between the southern resorts and a day trip to Mount Teide. Both are worthwhile. But the island has a driving network that reveals extraordinary landscapes within an hour of any resort: ancient laurel forests older than the ice age, a mountain village perched on a knife-edge ridge above

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5 best scenic drives in Gran Canaria - route map showing all five drives colour-coded across the island.

5 Best Scenic Drives in Gran Canaria (With Route Map and Driving Tips)

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Most visitors to Gran Canaria spend their time along the southern coast between Maspalomas and Puerto Rico. A hire car and a morning heading inland reveals a completely different island: sharp volcanic peaks, ancient ravines, pine forests above the clouds and whitewashed mountain villages that have barely changed in centuries. This guide covers the 5

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5 best scenic drives in Lanzarote - route map showing all five drives colour-coded across the island.

5 Best Scenic Drives in Lanzarote – With Route Map and Driving Tips

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Lanzarote is unlike any other island in Europe. Formed by volcanic eruptions that devastated the landscape between 1730 and 1736, it has been shaped by fire in a way that no Mediterranean destination can match: black lava fields, volcanic craters, wine grown in pits scooped from ash, and a coastal palette of rust-red, black and

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5 best scenic drives in Mallorca - route map showing the Tramuntana road, Cap de Formentor, Sa Calobra, south coast and east coast drives

5 Best Scenic Drives in Mallorca – With Route Map and Driving Tips

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Mallorca is the largest of the Balearic Islands and one of the most rewarding in Europe to drive. Its roads range from the hairpin mountain passes of the UNESCO-listed Serra de Tramuntana to the straight coastal run of the south, and the 5 best scenic drives in Mallorca cover terrain as varied as any island

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5 Best Scenic Drives in Menorca – With Route Map and Driving Tips

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Menorca may be the smallest of the three main Balearic Islands, but its roads reward the driver more than either of its neighbours. The island crosses in under an hour, yet the five best scenic drives in Menorca take you through landscapes as varied as the reddish moonscape of the north coast, the pine-backed turquoise

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Places to Visit in Malta by Car: An Essential Region-by-Region Guide

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Malta is one of the most compact countries in Europe, measuring just 27 kilometres from north to south, yet it packs in more history, coastline and contrast than islands three times its size. The bus network connects the main resorts and Valletta, but the places that make Malta genuinely memorable, the cliff-top villages, the ancient

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Car Hire in Ibiza: The Complete Insider Guide to Exploring the Island by Car

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Most people who visit Ibiza see perhaps a quarter of it. They stay close to the resort, take taxis to the beach clubs and leave having missed the island that lies just a few kilometres inland: the whitewashed villages, the dramatic rock coastlines, the UNESCO-listed hilltop city and the hidden coves that no bus route

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Car hire in Tenerife: The road to Mount Teide

Car Hire in Tenerife: The Complete Insider Guide to Exploring the Island by Car

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Two airports. Volcanic mountain roads. No toll roads. A hire car is not just useful in Tenerife, it is the difference between seeing the island and seeing the resort. Here is how to do it properly. Tenerife is Spain’s most visited island and one of the most misunderstood. The south is resorts: Playa de las

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