British journalist Matthew Hirtes, the author of Going Local in Gran Canaria: How to turn a holiday destination into a home, is always on the hunt for novel ways to explore his beautiful adopted home of Gran Canaria.  If he’s not discovering the island’s tourist-free beaches, he’s dabbling in pole-vaulting. This time Hirtes breaks his vow never to get on a motorbike again and takes to a coastal road on two wheels.

Read more about the book Going Local in Gran Canaria here.