Pics and other stuff

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...

 Globularia sarcophylla, globe daisy endemic to Gran Canaria. Apparently it grows only in Tirajana. I've never seen it in the wild, ha...

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...

I was looking forward to my first carnival at Las Palmas and was not disappointed. While perhaps not as spectacular as the carnival of S...

This Sunday me and the kids went to the Celebration of almond bloom in Tejeda. In the morning I was very much in two minds about going — ...

Today we walked to the tourist information to find out if there was anything interesting planned for the Sant Joan. There wasn't, or ...

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...

This cat, although different in color, in attitude and expression is a spitting image of Muta from "The Cat Returns" . From his p...

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...

Here Timur 's doing what he likes to do best.

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

While we've been staying on Fuerteventura, there always seems to be somethings going on and almost always that mysterious something is ...

We went to Puerto del Rosario again on saturday; Timur, who is very unlike Yuri in this respect, demanded some new clothes. I also bought...

Couple of days ago I've posted a picture of sand iguana on Corralejo flag beach . Now let's have a look at how professionals do it ...

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 ...

 Meet our new neighbour. She moved in, with her accompanying humans, a couple of weeks ago. Two weeks seems like a long time for a cat, but ...

Today, while checking out the schools, we walked to the roundabout that is completely covered with Claudine's wind flowers. It looks so...

Picture above is taken from the top of small artificial hill in botanic gardens of Corralejo. I'd say to call them "botanic garden...

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...