Santa Cruz de la Palma will be starting Carnival tonight. If you’re staying in town, it’s a great spectacle, but you should probably buy ear-plugs, as the music will be loud, and most nights it will go on until about 2 am. On Monday there will still be people partying at dawn. Where things are:The Alameda Square is at the north end of town, next to the concrete ship.The main…
The small manBuilds cages for everyoneHe Knows.While the sage,Who has to duck his headWhen the moon is low,Keeps dropping keys all night longFor theBeautifulRowdyPrisoners. Hafiz, an Iranian, Sufi poet from the 14th century.(I found this on Chris Guillebeau’s blog, The Art of Nonconformity)
Wily Writers has just accepted my story “Loathsome Alyce” to be published later this month. So I’m doing the happy dance again.
Puntagorda fiesta: almond blossom La Palma isn’t a big island, but it still takes almost 2 hours to drive from Breña Baja to Puntagorda. I found most of the blossom had been spoiled by the bad weather last week, but it was still pretty. (In a good year, the whole hillside turns pink.) Then I got sidetracked into visiting a friend’s barbecue, and very nice, too. I finally got to…
A glorious sunset over Puntagorda Yesterday I set off for the almond blossom fiesta in Puntagorda. When I arrives, I phoned my friends in Franceses to see if they were in the village too. Well, they were, but at their friends’ barbecue, so we agreed to meet up later. Before I’d even left the car, they phoned back with an invitation to the barbecue. So I went, and I had…
The 19th century butcher’s shop, Breña Baja, La Palma The old butcher’s shop stands on the outskirts of the village of San Jose, in Breña Baja, near the Paradorof La Palma. The building dates from the late 19th century, and it was a butcher’s shop until the 1960s. But now it’s been renovated as a craft exhibition and shop. The famous cigars of The Breñas Although the place is small,…