It’s been a mad week. Friday last week I had a coach party from a cruise ship. They were a nice group, and I wasn’t a particularly hard morning, but I felt enormously tired afterwards. In fact, I suspect I had some sort of lurgy, because I went on feeling enormously tired and very cold all weekend. Preparing English classes was enormously hard work. Worse, I had an appointment to…
Most days, I rather enjoy tour guiding. And then there’s the days that I love! This morning was one of the great days. I got to show a photographer around the Herschel, Gran Telescopio Canarias and the MAGIC. Even better, I finally got to clamber around parts of GTC that I’ve wanted to get to ever since my first visit there three years ago. For example, I got onto the…
It’s been a busy week. On Tuesday I went to see the friends in Franceses, go some exercise, and worked a bit on the Observatory book. Unfortunately when I got home, I found that I’d left my jacket behind (which was no big deal) with my phone in the pocket (which was rather more serious.) On Wednesday I signed on with the tax office as self-employed, met the friends in…
Thursday was mad busy. I picked up Alan Gandy from Santa Cruz at 8:15 and drove him to Barlovento to start his walk. then, since I was so close, I called in on my friends at Franceses. I couldn’t stay all that long, though, because I had to be back in Los Cancajos at 12:30 and things to do on the way. First, I called in at the Palma Romantica…
Alan Gandy is walking the length of all seven Canary Islands for charity, and he’s currently on La Palma. Yesterday he walked from Santa Cruz to Fuencaliente, and today he’s walking from Barlovento to Santa Cruz. That’s about 39 km altogether. All procedes to two charities, Niños del Tercer Mundo – a charity based on the island which funds projects in the third world, and the Rose Road Association –…
