A limit on visitors to the Ciés islands off Galicia makes tourists feel special while protecting the wildlife and environment for the future
Despite a spring and summer of protests from the Canaries to the Balearics, and from Barcelona to Cádiz, not every part of Spain is overrun with swarms of tourists or, come to that, with beach-occupying, waterpistol-waving activists demanding an end to unchecked mass tourism.
As the high season winds down on the Cíes islands, off the north-western region of Galicia, a young cormorant keeps a beady eye on visitors as they traipse across a breakwater. A kestrel hovers, almost static, above the lighthouse, its gaze on an early, possibly lizard-based lunch.
