Las Palmas sprawls along the coast of the third largest of the Canary Islands archipelago, scattered in the warm seas just beyond the northwest coast of Africa. From a satellite’s eye view, the island is almost a perfect circle; Gran Canaria, with a surface area of 1,560 square kilometers, centers around its highest peak, the extinct volcano Pico de Las Nieves — the ‘peak of snows’ — at 1,949 meters. It’s a long way from Lebanon, and yet the charms are superficially similar: you can spend your days basking in balmy weather, draining the cocktail bars while admiring the snow-capped peaks above. It’s a superb destination for a Porsche press trip to test out their gleaming new 911 Carrera Cabriolet, but it also reminds you how pollution and traffic impede top-down driving in Beirut. Until now, the choice between coupé and cabriolet might have been an agonizing one for someone
