I got my bags packed on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo.

Oh no!

Amateur Traveler episode 680. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about

volcanoes, white sand beaches, black sand beaches, pine forests, and dog worshiping Guanches as we go to the Canary Islands.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Let's talk

about the Canary Islands. I'd like to welcome to the show Alice Ford show Alice's Adventures on Earth.com and Alice has come to

talk to us about the Canary Islands. Alice welcome the show.

Thank you so much for having me. I'm excited to be here and to talk to all of your

listeners about the Canary Islands because it's an absolutely beautiful place.

Well, and when we talk about the Canary Islands, let's put it on a map here first and can I in fact find a lot of canaries on these islands?

No, they were actually not named after the canary bird. They were named after actually a dog.

But to put it on a map, the canary islands are actually located about 60 miles off the coast of

Morocco. And there's eight islands, seven that are the main tourist islands and then

a scattering of small islands that no one really visits. But that's where you can put it on the map out there on the ocean.

Okay. And this is not the first episode that we have done on the canary. So we can also go back way back to

episode 294, but that is eight years ago or nine years ago now.

So it seemed like it would be worthwhile to talk about it again.

So Alice, what is your connection to the Canary Islands, first of all?

Well, I've been to the Canary Islands a few times.

I actually shot an ad campaign for them last year, and we visited all seven islands.

We did an in-depth tour of every single island doing all the hiking

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