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...

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...

At last, after almost a year of thinking about it, I am writing about two flamenco -themed photosessions that we had on Fuerteventura wi...

I've heard many times that the carnival in Santa Cruz de Tenerife is something worth watching. "Second biggest in the world...

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...

The parade was a week ago already, but somehow there was no time to write it up before. After extremely photogenic Achipencos I was look...

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...

There was zumba demonstration on Saffron Walden market square. It was by my zumba instructor Luisa Curbelo (lady in blue belly dancing ...

we did catch Patrouille de France on Saturday - about 5ish they were on. Their display was great, and standing where we were, it also felt...

ever impressive red arrows display over Duxford museum today. They are going to kick off the display tomorrow at two, apparently, so ther...

This beautiful young lady was one of the dancers at Liverpool carnival parade this saturday. The parade was not nearly as big or impressive ...

Today we went to Duxford saturday workshop children theather performance "African Jigsaw". Both Yuri and Timur took part. In Yuri...

the day was dark and most of puctures I've taken are blurry or incredibly grainy (or both). fortunately, there are some good ones, too

been there for the first time ever today. I must say I was really impressed. it maybe not as big and famous as Notting Hill carnival, but on...

Every Sunday, there is a market in Teguise, in approximate center of Lanzarote. The is quite a variety of stuff for sale - from foods, via i...

we went to Mill Road Winter Fair today. The weather wasn't that great and it started raining in the late afternoon, but there were some ...

festival website - http://www.dragonboatfestivals.co.uk/cambridge/ a few more photos at http://tamara-k.livejournal.com/324898.html Cambri...

samw shhow. shame they don't do flybys for private occasions, or so it appears