Gosh what a long time since I updated this blog! Since I probably can’t catch up, I’ll just carry on from now. Yesterday the council cut off the water all day, to connect new pipes to the existing system. At least they told us well in advance, saying it would last 8 am to 8 pm. This seemed like a really good day to visit my friends in Franceses. So…
Well, we’re on holiday in El Hierro again. The last week was mad. I enjoyed the fiesta in Puerto Naos. I cooked a giant biscuit as a thankyou for my son’s teacher, and we collected his marks. He’s passed everything except Geography and History (one subject) so I have to spend an hour most days teaching him. (To be fair to him, most kids seemed to have failed it, so…
I went back to El Paso to see the procession of the Sacred Heart. It meant going right past the site of Saturday’s accident, but it had to be done sooner or later. And I got a lot of nice photos, some of which are on the blog about La Palma And my son’s finished school for the summer. We don’t get his report until Thursday – fingers crossed. At…
Last night was the concert for Ruido issue 10. I had a siesta, and woke up a bit late, so I was late leaving for El Paso. That meant I went up the twisty road as fast as I felt was safe. And a dark Berlingo passed me doing about 20 km/h more than me. “Idiot!” I thought. Almost immediately after that, the two cars in front of me braked…
Ouf! Three fiestas in four days. Corpus Christi in Mazo (on Thursday) and San Jose (today) and the big livestock fair and fiesta in San Antonio del Monte yesterday. I managed to take my camera to all of them, and to fit in translation, housework and taking a sick cat to the vet, too. Yesterday, I even came home via Tijarafe and got a photo of the baroque altarpiece there….
If you’re on La Palma, be sure to get to Mazo tomorrow, or at least on Friday. It’s the Catholic festival of Corpus Christi (the body of Christ) and they celebrate by making these spectacular archways and carpets, all decorated with petals, leaves and seeds. They stay up until Sunday, but between the weather and the crowds, they do tend to suffer as the days go by.