Gran Canaria 360º: Driving Europe's Miniature Continent ...

I did a mental check of the last-minute details for the last-minute Spanish wedding: hotel room reserved, dress dry cleaned, flights to Gran Canaria booked. Everything was taken care of until my boyfriend quipped: “No, no, no. ... We found ourselves in the airport of Las Palmas on the mini-continent, capital of the Canary Islands, at the rental car desks. The place was a jumble of English, Spanish and canario, a dialect halfway in between Argentinian and Castillian. ...