Posted in Life, Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Travel, tagged Tenerife, Canary Islands, Puerto de la Cruz, Mount Teide, Spain, avocado tree, garden, gardening, fruit tree, seeds, sweeping, terrace on February 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
For the past 6 weeks I’ve been locked in combat with the over sized avocado tree that dominates the garden.
Every morning, I step onto the terrace filled with joy for another beautiful day and my feet cushion on the carpet of seeds from the avocado tree which overnight, have covered every surface. I sigh, look [...]
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Posted in Life, Party, People, Puerto de la Cruz, Spain, Tenerife, Travel, fiestas, tagged Tenerife, Canary Islands, Puerto de la Cruz, salsa, Party, High heels Marathon, Carnaval 2008, fiesta, drag queens, false eyelashes, wigs, drinking, Arehucas rum, Lupita, Marge Simpson, Miss World, obstacle race, pantomime, Dorada on February 9, 2008 | No Comments »
From barrels at either side of the stage, draught Dorada is being dispensed in small plastic glasses and disorderly queues are forming. In the mêlée, there are several minor casualties; two wigs, a bedside cabinet whose contents are spilling from its drawers, a fortune-teller’s headscarf and a false nail. When everyone’s got a least one [...]
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Posted in Life, Party, People, Puerto de la Cruz, Spain, Tenerife, Travel, fiestas, tagged Canary Islands, Carnaval, costumes, fancy dress, opening night party, Party, Puerto de la Cruz, Spain, Tenerife on February 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The fluorescent red grass-skirt did its very best to save the night. I don’t quite know where it came from. I found it in the dressing-up box and I have a vague recollection of someone in our party acquiring it last year but I can’t quite remember who…or why.
It’s 10pm on Carnaval’s opening night and, [...]
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