The island’s association of amateur astronomers will be holding a star party on Saturday, from 8pm, behind the trees in the plaza beside the tourist office in El Paso. There will be lots of amateur telescopes there, so you can get a good look at, say, Saturn or Jupiter, and they plan to be there until midnight. I gather they speak some English. La Palma has amazing skies. This is…
Another Free Contest
GUD magazine are having another contest for issue 3. Since the prize is a copy of a rather good spec fic magazine, check it out at: http://www.gudmagazine.com/blog/archive/2008/7/18/issue-3-pre-launch-buzz-contest/(One of these days they’ll buy one of my stories. One day.)
Sunset on top of the world
GranTeCan (Grand Telescopio Canario / Big Canarian Telescope) at sunset. Some six weeks ago I got permission to take sunset photos at the observatory. But one way and another, there was always something that stopped me going: I was ill, or my husband got home late, or the the air was full of Sahara dust and the sunset would be lousy. Yesterday I finally got up to the Roque at…
Vanishing Time
I wonder where the week went? I know I gave my nieces English classes on Monday and Tuesday. But that’s only an hour a go – it hardly fills up the day. And I did some work on the translation – again that would account for perhaps another hour. I know where Wednesday went. One of my friends in Franceses needed to go to the doctor, so I went along…
More surrealism in Barlovento
Customer at Barlovento petrol station. Photo: Theresa My friends from Franceses stopped off at Barlovento petrol station, and saw this man chatting to another customer. Yes, that’s a live parrot on his shoulder. Mind you, there used to be quite a lot of pirates around La Palma.
The Battle of Lepanto
Sunday was busy. I left home with my son at 10 am to go to Puntagorda, so he could have a go on the Karts. Sadly, it turned out to be a demonstration of Karts, and he couldn’t have a go himself. So I took one very disappointed kid off to lunch at my friend’s house on the edge of the village. It was a nice lunch, with better company….