I got an email from the people I mentioned in my last blog. When they said “foreigners” they meant people from the Peninsular, not the English, Germans, Venezuelans etc. I can stay. Then there’s a lot of stuff about why they feel they’re a separate country, and a colony. Spain (in other words some Spaniards) treated the Canaries badly in the past and therefore it’s perfectly logical to hate all…
Two of the fourteen telescopes at the Roque de los Muchachos observatory are solar telescopes — highly specialised to observe our own sun. This is the Swedish Solar Telescope, which was the first telescope built on the Roque. It’s currently the best solar telescope in the world since they added the new adaptive optics in 2005. (Adaptive optics compensate for air turbulence.) It can resolve details of the sun’s surface…
Well I’ve been invited to leave the island for supporting a non-approved football team. Somebody calling him/herself “The voice of the Awara” emailed their list and said “We invite all foreigners who shout ‘Spain!’ to pack their cases and leave for the Peninsular.” Nobody I’ve asked knows who this person is, much less remembers electing them as the island’s spokesperson. Most of them support the national team too. I’ve had…