Yes, it all went fine. And I’m slightly famous. And the photography in the videos really is very good indeed. Afterwards, most people went home, but I stayed until the last flight of the day so that I could do some shopping in the big city. Not that I did much, since I’m planning to lose weight over the summer, and I’ve learned to to buy too-small clothes and then…
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The new tourism campaign
I think most of us were expecting the new tourism campaign to be based around sunshine on the beach, and so it is, although they’re making more mention of our gorgeous landscapes as well as the fantastic climte. For La Palma, they also show the night sky and observatory. The new thing is the way we’re going to market it. The new campaign plans to use social media much more…
Escape to Las Palmas
The Canary Islands tourist board sent me an email asking if I’d mind an all-expenses-paid trip to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria to help promote the Canary Islands. Fly out on Sunday for a practice on Sunday afternoon, stay the night, appear the formal presentation on Monday morning and fly home. I’d never been to Gran Canaria. Did I mention all-expenses-paid? So I said yes first, and asked what they…
Who lived on La Palma before the Spanish?
The people who lived on La Palma before the Spanish arrived in 1493 called the island Benahoare, and themselves Benahorita. (Or according to some people, Benawara and Benawaritas. They insist their spelling is correct. I find this odd, because to me the correct spelling would be the one the people themselves used, only they didn’t write.) The Benahorita probably arrived on La Palma somewhere between 1000 BC and 100 BC,…
Mother’s Day
Most of Spain had Mother’s Day two weeks ago. But the village I live in was the first place in Spain to celebrate Mother’s Day (thanks to the local poet, Felix Duarte) and they’ve stuck to the date they originally had, the third Sunday in May. By and large my fellers don’t do the flowers and chocolate routine, much less the champagne and diamonds routine, so I just bought myself…
Saturday
This morning I showed a group around the GTC, and this afternoon I sold five books. Five!