On Thursday I sent the final corrections for the Spanish edition of the observatory book off for layout, and then we celebrated. I spent the first half of Friday morning nursing a hangover, and then I went to the water mine to collect water. It’s not really worth doing economically, but it’s a nice little trip. There’s something very relaxing about standing around in the woods filling up 5 litre…
Monday night will be the biggest night of the year on La Palma, the Los Indianos parade, in Santa Cruz de La Palma. In the 19th century the island was very poor, and many people emigrated to Cuba – the Indies. Some of them came back rich, so that the arrival of a boat from Cuba was quite an event, even though there were more boats to Latin America than…
Last week I posted someone else’s pictures of rainbow clouds on Facebook. Today I stumbled across the pictures I took of the same effect on La Palma, coming down from the observatory in January 2012. The only thing I changed with photoshop was the size of the picture – no other tweaks, I promise.
Today I showed a group of people from a conference round the MAGIC and GTC telescopes. I left my car at the residencia and got on their bus so that I could chat to them via the microphone as we drove along, which worked very well. Then as we left GTC I realised that a) they were probably going to the Roque and b) my car was still at the…
