Sunday Drawings: Chai Latte

October 28, 2019

  Chai Latte continues to be gorgeous, so much so that I kept getting the urge to draw her, even though I know perfectly well that I can’t draw. The first one turned out very much better than I expected. No-one’s going to put my efforts in a gallery any time soon, but it was fun. I just finished 6 days of tour guiding, so I had another go while…

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Rock Art

A wet, spiral rock carving at La Zarzita, Garafia, La Palma island
November 24, 2015

I’ve been having fun hunting up the local rock art with an archeologist from Northumbria. There’s lots of it, but while the rock art from the North Pennines is about 5,000 – 3,000 years old, the Palmeran art is much newer at 1,200 – 500 years old. We went to El Verde near El Paso cemetery, where most of the carvings line up with midsummer sunset or midwinter sunset (well,…

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Art at Hacienda de Abajo

A small statue in Hacienda de Abajo, Tazacorte, with lots of happy kids
October 28, 2015

This blog hasn’t had many photos lately, so here’s a few taken of the artwork in Hacienda de Abajo. I don’t know anything about the horse and the (presumably) Chinese statue, I just like them. There’s a tale attached to the saint with a big sore on his leg and a dog, but I was at the back of the group so I missed the saint’s name. Anybody know?

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Tuesday

On Tuesday I went to Tenerife with my son for an appointment. The day went really well until we tried to buy a video game in El Corte Ingles. Slow serivice meant that we missed our bus to the airport and had to take a taxi (I can think of better things to do with 15€). Worse, my son forgot his phone in the taxi. Worse still, it was in…

September 3, 2015
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Photos of La Palma by Kai Petersen

Llano del Jable, Pico Birigoyo, LA Palma. Photo: Kai Petersen
July 27, 2015

Kai Petersen has some spectacular photos of La Palma at his website: http://www.lightpaintingfreaks.com/index.php?/albums/la-palma/   My favourites are the night photos with stars, but he also took this lovely photo of my and my friend Nevermore on a tour of the Observatory of the Roque de Los Muchachos. The website is in German, but you don’t need words to enjoy them. I really recommend a visit, because there are 37 more!

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