Green Gomera explodes in riot of colour and song

GREEN Gomera! This small Canary Island that, tragically, had 10% of its land mass and 30% of its World Heritage forests devastated by fires only seven months ago is now greener than Ireland.

I have never, in 32 years of extended visits, seen it so green.

Happily, we were not on the island for the rains that fell all winter (although they were, almost certainly more pleasant than the rains that fell all winter in Ireland) but what a change they have brought.