Recently, I was approached by Simon Harris, (who runs the Barcelona Travel Guide) to take part in a project called The Next Big Thing, where writers blog about their current writing project and then pass the baton onto other writers and link back to the person that got them involved. Simon is an English teacher, writer and translator who has lived in Barcelona since 1988. He’s the author of “Going…
Recently, I was approached by Simon Harris, (who runs the Barcelona Travel Guide) to take part in a project called The Next Big Thing, where writers blog about their current writing project and then pass the baton onto other writers and link back to the person that got them involved. Simon is an English teacher, writer and translator who has lived in Barcelona since 1988. He’s the author of “Going…
The cover of my book. This morning I showed a group of Austrian amateur astronomers around some telescopes, had lunch “up top” and got down about 4 pm. Not long after, the EcoGeek team showed up with a pen drive, and we finally uploaded the book about the observatory to the printers. Well we tried. The transfer kept timing out. But eventually I managed to send it via Dropbox this…
I just got back from a long weekend in El Hierro. I did it again you know. I thought I’d have finished the book by now, so I booked a long weekend away to relax and celebrate. And I haven’t finished. so the “holiday” was punctuated with checking proofs for the book, and chasing up the ISBN and “Deposito Legal” and so on. In addition to the photos I’d promised…
I enjoy tour guiding. If I’m honest, I like the sound of my own voice, but I also like to share my enthusiasm for astronomy and La Palma, and I love to see people go away happy. I like it even more when they tell the world about it, like Buzz Trips blog just did.Actually, Buzz Trips looks like a great blog. I’ll have to keep reading it.
From left to right: Liverpool Telescope, Isaac Newton Telescope, Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope,William Hershel Telescope (with laser guide star) Swedish Solar Telescope, Dutch Open Telescope. At the front, MAGIC I.The very bright star is actually Venus. I got permission to take photographs of the observatory early this morning. I’d carefully planned it so that the full moon would be setting, illuminating the telescopes for me, and I hoped to get the…