Canary Cast

Guily pleasures galore - Janet and Clio discuss the fact that Spain is now welcoming British tourists, with no restrictions nor conditions on coming into Spain, and then the two indulge their utter love of the Eurovision - it might be over but they have to mull over the night, the winner, the losers and why the voting methodology has to change. See, all the important stuff in today's Canary Cast. 

The serious stuff today is on emigration, vaccination, vacations and comuinidades - and of course there's a Eurovision song too. Janet and Clio need their music!

Janet Anscombe and Clio O'Flynn try and make sense of the rules and restricitions in place in the Canary Islands now that the state of alarm at national level has officially ended. There's a bit about travel and also an update on the search for two missing children. 

Today Cheryl explains to Janet and Clio and everyone else how she managed, in just a few bureaucratic dance steps, to get herself and her husband registered as public health patients here making them now eligible for  vaccination. 

So, Clio and Janet with the lastest on the local vaccine rollout - and Karen Cochrane with a brilliantly concise intervention on why you need to check if you have to make a tax declaration this year even if you haven't been working but receiving the ERTE furlough payments. Boring maybe, but it's kind of really important. 

It's all about the vaccination roll-out today. Janet and Clio talk through efforts to get privately insured patients onto a vaccination schedule here in the Canary Islands.  As neither can stray too far from the Eurovision, the podcast ends with this year's entry from Iceland, Clio's Nº1 pick, " 10 Years " by  Daði Freyr andGagnamagnið.

Janet and Clio stray into horse racing and rugby today, with (of course) the weekly Eurovision mention too, and a goodbye to Shay Healy. They also answer Julie's question about 'comunidad' meetings during the pandemic, and update information on vaccine availability and roll-out in the Canary Islands. 

Lot to unpack here - not that we're travelling - Janet and Clio look back at some Easter weekend shenanigans, try and answer jab queries, remind people that the tax return window in Spain has just opened, and at last, manage to squeeze in a Eurovision Song Contest 2021 hopeful....

Janet and Clio go over the 90 day rule again as the first end date is upon us. We also outline the current travel restrictions and permissions, and have a look at what is happening locally and online to celebrate 'Semana Santa' here.

This week,  while trying not to discuss the Eurovsion Song contest, Janet and Clio try to make sense of the new tangle of restrictions, some in force since midnight, some due on Friday March 26th.  So where can you go, who can you go with and from where!