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Matthew Hirtes

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Biography

By accident as much as by design, erstwhile London football journalist Matthew Hirtes has reinvented himself as Gran Canaria's sole resident UK broadsheet travel writer. He covers the Canarian archipelago and beyond for the likes of easyJet Traveller, Telegraph Travel, and Weather2Travel.com.

From Australia to Chile and Gran Canaria, greetings from the fire frontlines

Multiple authors

Reading time

6 min

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