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Not far off the west coast of Scotland is a group of over 200 islands known as the Outer Hebrides or Western Isles, one of these is the Isle of Harris. Although the tourist industry is an important part of the islands economy generally most people will only know of the place because of the very popular cloth called Harris Tweed. Although known as Harris Tweed because it was generally made on the Isle of Harris it is now also made on the adjoining Isle of Lewis.

The Canary Islands are located in the Atlantic Ocean, little more than 100 miles from the coast of Africa. The weather is reputed to be the best in the world, a bit like Goldilocks' porridge: neither too hot nor too cold, and much the same all year. Average temperatures fall between 21 degrees in winter and 27 degrees in the peak of the summer.