You’d be stone mad to journey to the ‘world’s best beach’

A ROCK falling on one’s head is a hazard rarely encountered on Irish roads. However, in the Canary Islands it is a distinct possibility on back roads not yet endowed with EU grants.

Even the secondary roads on this island, La Gomera, and on the other major islands, are perfectly asphalted, sweeping highways better than many Irish primary routes.

Meanwhile, Canarian primary roads are broad and well-signposted, and where they overhang precipitous slopes, have stout barriers. Well-built tunnels, often hundreds of metres in length, cut through mountain spurs to obviate the lengthy, dangerous, cliff-hanging old roads that wind around them.