Posted in Life, People, Spain, Tenerife, Travel, tagged Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, crater, tropical, hiking, El Médano, naked, men, beach, walking, coastline, pinewoods, world's third largest volcano, Happy Feet, La Montaña Roja, buttocks, rock formations, coves, naturist beach on May 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday I was in the kite-boarders’ and wind-surfers’ paradise resort of El Médano and I’ve never seen so many naked men in one place.
That’s not to say they were wandering around the streets, nor even stretched out on the town’s main beach. No. I had to walk quite some distance to find them.
‘Walking’ and ‘hiking’ [...]
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Posted in Life, Party, Spain, Tenerife, Travel, fiestas, tagged "Los Realejos", air bombs, battle, Canary Islands, candles, Catholic, church, colour, comets, conquest, cross, crucifix, Europe, explosions, fairy dust, Fiestas of the Cross, fire, fireworks, flowers, gold, gunpowder, incense, jewelled, mañana culture, night, pyrotechnics, religion, Spain, spectacular, Tenerife on May 8, 2008 | No Comments »
The opening shot across the bow comes with an ear-splitting explosion out of which a magnificent glistening gold crucifix forms and hangs in the firmament above the church square. The crowd draws its breath in a gasp and the fading crucifix is replaced by a fiery row of red and silver fountains above which barrages [...]
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Posted in Life, Party, People, Spain, Tenerife, Travel, fiestas, tagged Tenerife, Canary Islands, Puerto de la Cruz, salsa, Spain, tropical, music, hip-hop, live, Orishas, Cuban, band, paragliders, paramotors, "Socorro Beach", festival, May, skies, cliffs, colourful, "extreme sports", parachutist, Latino, "Los Realejos", "Flypa 08", concert, hat, Yotuel, Ruzzo, "Hip Hop Conga", Amy Winehouse, Scissor Sisters, Rehab, I don't feel like dancin, Castro, Glastonbury, diabolos, black sand beaches, ribbon dancing on May 6, 2008 | No Comments »
In the unlikely setting of a basketball court in Los Realejos Bajo on Friday night the Cuban hip hop band ‘Orishas’ took to the stage in an atmosphere of euphoria, and not until they’d gone through their entire repertoire would they leave. Even then, they were still thanking the audience and promising to return as [...]
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