What are murgas when they’re at home? Well, they’re not murgas. They have to go out to do that. And they usually go out during Carnival. A murga is a large, costumed choir singing a medley of popular tunes with their own lyrics. The costumes can be quite elaborate, and run from clowns, demons, big, hairy blokes dressed as schoolgirls, Arabian princes, or fairies (usually the big, hairy blokes again.)…
Like the rest of Spain, La Palma celebrates Carnival in the week before the season of Lent. I always say people are making sure they have something really juicey to repent, but these days most people just regard it as a darn good excuse for a party. It wasn’t always that way. Franco banned Carnival. It’s always been a time when people could say and do things they wouldn’t normally…
Lost – one sense of proportion, last seen disappearing into the distance with a work ethic and a sense of purpose. Reward offered for the safe return of any or all of the three.
La Palma’s tourist board has released this video about astro tourism on the island: Turismo de las Estrellas
I got another section of the Observatory book written and sent out to my beta readers, and I’m halfway through the next. I’ve done a couple of critiques for friends and a long-overdue review for another. I even managed to keep up with exercise programme. Of course it helped that Saturday morning’s guiding job got cancelled due to an orange weather alert. We were threatened with 90 km/h winds along…