Posted in Life, Spain, Tenerife, Travel, tagged banana plantation, calima, Canary Islands, Echo and the Bunnymen, Echo and the Bunnymen in Tenerife, Ian McCulloch, in concert, Killing Moon, La Laguna University, Lips like Sugar, live, Mount Teide, music, rock, Spain, Tenerife on April 27, 2008 | No Comments »
You know it’s calima when… the temperature cranks up into the red zone, the sun turns white and Mount Teide disappears from the horizon to be replaced by a white veil behind which shapes ghost in and out.
You know it’s calima when… you’re woken at 6 am by the sound of the wind howling and [...]
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Posted in Life, Spain, Tenerife, Travel, tagged alfombristas, Attacus Atlas, butterfly, Canary Islands, caterpillar, cocoon, cornflower, Corpus Christi, flower carpets, Guardia Civil, Guinness Book of Records, Icod de los Vinos, La Orotava, lavender, mariposerio, metamorphosis, Monarch, primrose, religion, Renaissance, sand carpets, Spain, speeding, Tenerife on April 17, 2008 | No Comments »
It’s been a fleeting week for me. I don’t just mean in the way that time has a habit here of running away like water down a drain, I mean because I’ve been involved in things that fleet.
Firstly, we’ve been working on a feature about the flower carpets of La Orotava. On the feast [...]
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Posted in Life, Party, People, Puerto de la Cruz, Spain, Tenerife, Travel, fiestas, tagged aerial ballet, breakdancing, fairies, high wire, hip-hop, living statues, mime, Mueca Festival 2008, Plaza del Charco, Puerto de la Cruz, R & B, robots, Simon Says, street acts, Tenerife on April 8, 2008 | No Comments »
It’s a hot day. At the pharmacy the neon green sign is alternating between 11.20am and 28 °. Down at the harbour a small stage is in full sun. Stacks of speakers are vibrating to the rhythms of R & B and hip-hop that resonate around the little plaza, setting the heat haze to sound.
At [...]
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