On Saturday I went for a walk in the woods at Cubo de la Galga. It’s one of the most famous walks on the island, but it’s the first time I’ve been. Well it was lovely. The path starts out as tarmac, one car wide, and turns to a dirt track the smae width, butt here was no chance of getting lost. It was all uphill, but we were all…
When I first came to La Palma, the tourist office was in temporary accommodation in the third floor of an office building, with absolutely nothing at street-level to indicate where it was. Basically, you had to ask a local to find it. Obviously this left something to be desired, so they put up two signs: one at the south end of town pointing north, and one at the north end,…
Last night the Chamber Orchestra of Breña Baja gave a concert in Cancajos. It was rather windy, so they moved it to just outside the tourist office. I didn’t hear all of it, but they seemed pretty good to me.
Lately it’s felt like all work and no play. I’ve been trying to catch up with a long translation job, keep up with the blogs, and get issue 4 of Ruido up on the website before last night’s launch party. The trouble was, all three things were computer jobs, so I’ve sat in this chair far too much, and for the first time in my life I’ve had aching shoulders….
At 18:30 in Cancajos, there will be a concert by the Chamber orchestra of Breña Baja at the ampitheatre on the promenade. (Start at the main beach and head a few hundred yards south towards the old salt works and the airport. It’s small, but you’ll know it when you see it.) This is in the open air, so it may be canceled if the weather’s bad. At 20:00 in…
Fish on La Palma is usually delicious because its very fresh. Well it should be, given the amount of ocean surrounding the island. I once went with friends to a shack on the beach at Punta Larga (since closed) where we had to wait, because the cook was having her own lunch. As we sipped our beer, a man came up out of the sea with two fish on a…