Posted in Life, People, Puerto de la Cruz, Spain, Tenerife, Travel, tagged Tenerife, Canary Islands, Driving, car, Spain, ITV test, MOT, ITV centre on November 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The queue’s eerily quiet beneath its blanket of nervous anticipation. Some are sitting in their cars, flicking distractedly through newspapers, others are standing beside their vehicles shuffling their feet or examining their bitten nails.
I’ve never witnessed a silent gathering of Tinerfeños before where everyone keeps their own company and just waits. It’s an aberration and [...]
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Posted in Food, Life, People, Tenerife, tagged CD Tenerife, football, Gran Canaria, soccer, Spain, sport, sunflower seeds, Tenerife, ticker-tape, UD Las Palmas on November 19, 2007 | No Comments »
As the coach slowly inched its way through the police lines the crowd surged forward in a frenzy of excitement, many of them had their faces painted blue and their lips pursed against small blue trumpets that emitted a level of sound far beyond their size; klaxons in cardboard disguise. From where I was standing [...]
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Posted in Food, Life, Puerto de la Cruz, Spain, Tenerife, Travel, fiestas, tagged autumn, calima, Chestnuts, fiesta San Andres, harbour, new wines, Puerto de la Cruz, rain, Spain, summer, Tenerife on November 10, 2007 | No Comments »
November in the north of Tenerife usually evokes two strong images in my mind; heavy rain and chestnuts roasting. But last year, and so far this year, only one of those images has transpired.
Normally, November is the month in which everything breathes a sigh of relief as the long, dry summer draws to a close [...]
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Posted in Friends, Life, Spain, Tenerife, Travel, tagged British Embassy, Canary Islands, ex-pat, Passport, photograph, Ruud van Nistelrooy on November 9, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I used to be a civil servant (that’s another of those sentences that I feel ought to be followed by “but I’m ok now”), so I’m not easily fazed by bureaucracy. But the British Embassy has managed to raise my blood pressure to a level that requires blog therapy to lower it again.
My passport expired [...]
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