The Square, San Andres, La Palma San Andres is a very pretty little village in the northeast of La Palma. From Santa Cruz, you take the main road north until you’re almost at Los Sauces, and then take the little road down towards the coast (yes, it’s signposted). The church was built in the early 17th century, when La Palma was rich from transatlantic trade. It’s supposed to be beautiful…
It’s been a productive weekend. I’ve been working on an ebook of my SF stories. The stories themselves have each been published at least once, but I still had to produce things like a foreword, biography and acknowledgements, which took much longer than expected since I’ve never done it before. Then there was the problem of where to put information like, “This story was first published in Jackhammer ezine in…
Well, maybe it was the cold at Acropark, and maybe not, but I just spent a week achieving approximately nothing. Well yes, I went and helped friends as an interpreter at the unemployment office on the morning before and the morning after the lurgy, and I sort-of kept up with laundry and minimal housework, but I didn’t do any writing. So I hope the weekend will be better. But today…
Most of La Palma has good weather nearly all year. But the observatory is up at 2400 m (almost 8,000 ft) and occasionally in winter dramatic storms come howling in, dump half a metre of snow overnight, and disappear almost as fast as they came. If you’re planning a trip to the observatory between November and March, be sure to check the road conditions before you leave. You can…
A new adventure playground has opened quite close to the barbecue site at El Pilar in Breña Alta, up in the pine forest. It’s called ACROPARK, and they have three different circuits for different ages and daring, from the kids’ circuit with 13 activities, where you’re never more than a metre off the ground, to the senior one with 20 activities, where you get as much as 7 m up….
There’s a new adventure playground in Breña Alta called Acropark, and we finally got there today. In spite of the mist, I loved it. They give you a proper safety harness and show you how to use it. You’ve got two clips, so you’ve always got at least one clipped onto the lifeline. That meant that I felt safe using both hands for the camera. We went on the…