Helicopter Crashes into the Harbour Car Park in Puerto de la Cruz

Yesterday a helicopter lost control and plummeted into the tarmac of Puerto’s harbour side car park scattering pieces of shattered blades during the air display which marks the end of the July Fiestas.
Thankfully, it was only a model copter and the only injury was to the pride of the pilot who had been doing a [...]

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My Fantasy

Some people fantasize about winning the lottery, others about rescuing Johnny Depp from imminent life-threatening danger and then he’s so incredibly grateful to them that he suddenly realises he’s fallen hopelessly in love with them and…ahem, sorry, where was I? Oh yes. But not me.
I fantasize about a tree.
I’ve just spent the past hour and [...]

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The Sardinada-or Life on Mars with Sardines

To queue or not to queue, that is the question.
It was around the hour of 9pm and a few dozen bodies had already begun to form a line from the ticket man at the top of the steps on San Telmo to the long bar backed by rows of red hot barbecues laden with smoking [...]

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The art of Zen healing, or, “Darling, do you mind of I stand on another man’s buttock?”

I need someone to stand on my thigh for me,” said Jésus.
It’s not a request you hear that often.
Jack, Jo and I looked at each other. No-one said anything.
It was approaching midnight on the dying embers of my birthday and the three of us were sitting on the back terrace after a very pleasant evening [...]

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Keroxen09- Can anyone enlighten me?

I guess the name ‘El Tanque’ (the tank) should have been enough of a clue but I was thinking in the neighbourhood of fish tank and so was taken aback when the full sized oil storage tank came into view; gleaming lime green and silver in the glaring midday sun.
We followed the road around the [...]

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