Many people head to the Canaries for year-round sunshine, an easy-going lifestyle and cosmopolitan culture. But if you really want to find the secret heart of this region, the island of La Gomera, a 35-minute ferry journey from Tenerife, is a perfect destination.
It may be one of the smaller Canary Islands but La Gomera offers lush landscapes, stunning sea vistas and average year-round temperatures of 23°C. Though the island has fabulous scenery, excellent roads, good schools and healt...