Traveling to another island to do the shopping or to fill up gas; the hard and surreal routine of many canaries

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Traveling to another island to do the shopping or to fill up gas; the hard and surreal routine of many canaries

The reality of the Canary Islands is as peculiar as complex. While in other parts of Spanish geography, the variety of supermarkets weave a free market and competitive one, in the islands, especially in non-capital ones, the scarcity of large surfaces causes food prices to fluctuate up to 60%. In Tenerife, a pack of yogurts costs one euro, in La Gomera, it reaches 1.80 euros. In the case of bananas, you pay 80 cents more per kilogram in Fuerteve…