Category: Islands
Islands of the Mediterranean and the Atlantic (Canary Islands, Madeira, Azores) — when to go, sea temperature month by month, and full travel guides.
Gran Canaria: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Gran Canaria Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Gran Canaria sits at sea level but its interior peaks at 1,956m, packing desert dunes, pine forests, and a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve into an island of 862,893 residents. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the capital, is Spain’s 8th-largest city and hosts over 4 million tourists […]
Tenerife: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Tenerife Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Tenerife is Spain’s most populous island, home to 972,018 residents and sitting at just 10 metres above sea level off the African coast. The island spans 2,034 km² and hosts Mount Teide, Spain’s highest peak at 3,715 metres — a staggering contrast within a single island. […]
Formentera: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Formentera Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Formentera is Spain’s smallest inhabited Balearic Island, home to just 11,418 permanent residents and sitting only 6 km south of Ibiza across the Es Freus strait. First formally settled by the Romans, it stretches barely 20 km from end to end yet contains some of the […]
Ibiza: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Ibiza Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Ibiza is a Mediterranean island of 161,485 residents sitting 150 km off Valencia’s coast, yet it draws over 3 million visitors annually — a staggering 20-to-1 tourist-to-local ratio. Founded by the Phoenicians around 654 BC, Ibiza Town’s UNESCO-listed old quarter, Dalt Vila, still stands on its […]
Menorca: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Menorca Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Menorca, the second-largest Balearic Island with a population of 100,323, sits 285 km east of the Spanish mainland and was declared a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in 1993. The island stretches just 48 km from east to west, yet packs in over 200 beaches, a prehistoric landscape […]
Île du Gaou: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Île du Gaou Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Île du Gaou is a tiny protected peninsula near Six-Fours-les-Plages on the French Riviera, connected to the mainland by a narrow causeway and covering just 14 hectares of Mediterranean scrubland. Founded as a nature reserve in the 1970s, it sits roughly 60 km east […]
Île de Pomègues: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Île de Pomègues Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Île de Pomègues is one of the four main islands of the Frioul archipelago, located just 4 km off the coast of Marseille in the Mediterranean Sea. The island stretches roughly 2.5 km in length and rises to about 138 metres at its highest […]
Île de Ratonneau: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Île de Ratonneau Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Île de Ratonneau is one of the four Îles du Frioul, located just 3.5 km off the coast of Marseille in the Mediterranean Sea, reachable in under 25 minutes by ferry. The island covers roughly 90 hectares and sits at near sea level, forming […]
Île de Frioul: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Île de Frioul Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) The Île de Frioul is a small archipelago of 4 islands lying just 2 km off the coast of Marseille, covering a total area of 200 hectares and reachable in under 25 minutes by ferry. Home to the famous Château d’If — the fictional […]
Île de Piana: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Île de Piana Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Île de Piana sits within the Golfe de Porto on Corsica’s dramatic west coast, a village of around 500 residents perched at roughly 420 metres elevation above UNESCO-listed red granite calanques. Founded in the medieval era and officially classified among Les Plus Beaux Villages […]
Île de Cavallo: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Île de Cavallo Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Île de Cavallo is a tiny private island off the southern tip of Corsica, France, covering just 1.5 km² and sitting roughly 1 km from the Sardinian coast in the Strait of Bonifacio. The island has been a discreet retreat for European billionaires and […]
Île Sainte-Marguerite: The Complete Travel Guide (2026)
Île Sainte-Marguerite Travel Guide: Everything You Need to Know (2026) Île Sainte-Marguerite is the largest of the Lérins Islands, stretching 3,200 metres long and 950 metres wide, sitting just 700 metres off Cannes’ Palm-Beach headland in the Bay of Cannes. The island sits at only 22 metres above sea level and is famously known as […]