Posted in Friends, Party, Travel, fiestas on February 28, 2007 | No Comments »
Saturday 24th February
4pm - closing parade. Another 3 hour standing marathon as the various dancing troupes, floats, Carnaval Queens and multitudinous winners of fancy dress prizes parade through the streets from Costa Martiánez to Castillo San Felipe.
10pm - Everyone’s in fancy dress for the closing party and looking forward to the final blow-out. I’ve opted [...]
Posted in Friends, Party, Travel, fiestas on February 24, 2007 | No Comments »
Tonight we leave the fancy dress to the experts and head down to town to watch the High Heels Honey Drag Marathon. Join thousands of observers lining Calle de Santo Domingo as contestants make their way to starting line. Visitors highly amused and shocked at some of the politically incorrect outfits of some group entries [...]
Posted in Friends, Party, Travel, fiestas on February 22, 2007 | No Comments »
No party in Plaza del Charco tonight, day spent on the beach enjoying some well deserved R & R. Out to dinner at Mil Sabores – wonderful food, chilled atmosphere, good wine and not a false eyelash in sight…
Posted in Friends, Party, Travel, fiestas on February 22, 2007 | No Comments »
Arrived at Casa Blanca apartments 8pm, Jack dressed in blonde wig, little black dress over two balloons stuffed into a bra, torn fishnets and trainers; he looks like a demented Scandinavian trollop, code name for the evening – Inga.
In the apartment, the girls are applying make-up to the lads who are losing their bottle about [...]
Posted in Friends, Party, Travel, fiestas on February 20, 2007 | No Comments »
After a late start, much of the day spent scouring shops for fancy dress outfits following last night’s revelation by our visitors that EVERYONE wears a costume (repeated assertions of that fact over the months preceding the visit clearly having fallen on barren ground). I could see the pride in Anne’s eyes as her 17 [...]
Posted in Friends, Party, Travel, fiestas on February 20, 2007 | No Comments »
Just arrived back from Plaza del Charco after a brilliant night and still buzzin’. Calle Perdomo, Calle Mequinez and Calle Marina merged into a single dance floor; speakers strung from kiosks at the harbour end of Calle Mequinez blasted out dance music to the thronging masses below. Drag queens danced with DC Comics’ heroes, pirates, [...]
Posted in Friends, Party, Travel, fiestas on February 19, 2007 | No Comments »
This weekend saw the start of the annual carnival in Puerto de la Cruz on Tenerife’s northern coast. This is our fourth Carnaval (Spanish spelling) since we moved here and this year we’ve got friends, their teenage offspring and their teenage offspring’s mates coming to stay in Puerto for the duration of the festivities. Everyone [...]
