Tonight is the big shopping night in Santa Cruz de La Palma. Shops will have special offers and stay open late, and there’s all sorts of activities on offer. The town hall have organized a special temporary car park on the sea front. (Traffic will circulate through the car park only from south to north. Presumably to go north to south you have to go along the bypass.) Nova Foto…
“A Breathtaking Window on the Universe” has arrived on La Palma, and is on sale at the following outlets: Santa Cruz de La Palma: Librería Trasera (Calle Trasera) Papiro Libros (Calle Real) Molina Artesania (Calle Real) The Best of La Palma (Calle Real) Los Llanos María Luasteida Rodríguez Cabello (The souvenir shop at the bottom of the church square) Breña Alta: Museo del Puro I hope to arrange more outlets…
It’s science week and the astrophysics institute is organising events all around the Canaries. On Monday 26th at noon in the teachers’ centre there’s a workshop for 6th form students on atmospheric turbulence, and how astronomers compensate for it On Monday 26th at 6pm Ovidiu Vaduvescu will give a talk on near-Earth asteroids (in Spanish) in the San Fransico convent, Santa Cruz de la Palma On Tuesday 27th, there’s a…
It’s science week and the astrophysics institute is organising events all around the Canaries. On Monday 26th at noon in the teachers’ centre there’s a workshop for 6th form students on atmospheric turbulence, and how astronomers compensate for it On Monday 26th at 6pm Ovidiu Vaduvescu will give a talk on near-Earth asteroids (in Spanish) in the San Fransico convent, Santa Cruz de la Palma On Tuesday 27th, there’s a…
In Palacio Salazar, there’s an exhibition of model ships, mostly from the Napoleonic wars. Now model ships aren’t really my thing, but it’s worth a quick visit just because they’re so beautifully detailed. (And if you haven’t seen Palacio Salazar, that’s worth a visit too.) The exhibition fills up the ground and first floor, and contains perhaps thirty models, including the Titanic, HMS Bounty, the Cutty Sark and the US…
Santa Cruz de la Palma is still celebrating the anniversary of defeating Drake. In Palacio Salazar, there’s an exhibition of model ships, mostly from the Napoleonic wars. Now model ships aren’t really my thing, but it’s worth a quick visit just because they’re so beautifully detailed. (And if you haven’t seen Palacio Salazar, that’s worth a visit too.) The exhibition fills up the ground and first floor, and contains perhaps…