Pics and other stuff

Somebody switched on an enormous spotlight behind Amurga massif. On one of our very first visits to Gran Canaria we booked a stay in a...

I liked this stage of the sunrise the most — the cone of shadow under Roque Bentayga was spectacular An excursion to greet the first ra...

Wow. I'd never seen a firework blast like this before Every Year, Saint John's Eve is celebrated in the beautiful city of Las Pa...

First published 27 March 2018 @ Listen, Learn, Read According to my old Rough Guide to Spain (this book served me well but I left it ...

Most people seem to be engaged in picture-taking, but still According to Wikipedia , the whole area of Gran Canaria is 1,560 square k...

The octopus keeps turning up every year. He is one of the biggest kites at the festival. Every year, in November, мы с друзьями ходим в...

By now we've been living on Gran Canaria for long enough to get a reasonably good idea of how the carnivals go here, and of course t...

Although I wasn’t tough enough to stay on Fuerteventura for more than two years, it keeps calling me back. I went there in the beginnin...

We came to El Cotillo on Saturday evening to listen to some music on the second day of the free music festival Fuerteventura en Música 201...

Here are just some assorted pics from the last week or so. First one is our nearest proper beach, which I photographed many times - the F...

I saw carnival processions before, but I never saw the El entierro de la sardina (The Burial of the sardine) up till yesterday. I looked it ...

Yesterday there was a carnival parade in Corralejo, the biggest of the several. I heard that it was going to be a big event, but didn...

Yesterday me and Timur went to the post office to pic up yet another parcel from Amazon - two more Terry Pratchett's books for Yuri and...

Today there was the last day of kite festival. This year they weren't very lucky with the weather - out of three days in the dunes, on...

We went for a walk in the dunes today and unexpectedly got ourselves a preview of upcoming kite festival (festival de cometas). the festi...

Today there was a half-marathon in the dunes. Unlike some other local events, this one at least managed to make me aware of its existenc...

We went towards the port of Corralejo to see what was on offer at Fiesta del Mar. We knew that it was starting at 10, but I can't bring ...

we came to Cambridge today to spot two friends that were taking part in Race for life event. Needless to say, we were sort of late, as we t...

A few more pictures from the marathon - observers, charity support groups, police and ambulance. Para-marathon, so to speak. Those ladies...

 Me and Yuri went to see London marathon today. I have a few hundred of pictures that I eventually will process (eventually, yes), but I jus...