Pics and other stuff

Impressive cliffs, right? I suppose Guigui (pardon me for not going into all that umlaut nonsense from this point on*) is Gran Canari...

Some of the remaining old pines. Apparently, they grow in a very very uniform conical shape up to a certain age; after which they start t...

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...

Grand Place , Brussels What, exactly, is Belgium famous for, apart from unelected bureaucrats and Brussels sprouts (which are not feat...

Inspired by Josep Lluís Berdonces i Serra’s Guía de las plantas psicoactivas , here’s our own short guide to ten common psychoactive plants...

Silver Leaf, Silver Feather, silver tansy, Magarza Plateada — common names describe the silvery leaves of the plant. Taken mid-May, in a ...

Panorama taken from the top of the Risco We came to the place to check out if Tanacetum ptarmiciflorum , the silver lace plants, have ...

Erysimum albescens , "wallflower" endemic to Gran Canaria It is extremely rare not to see at least something flowering in Las...

We had quiet and uneventful Easter holidays on Tenerife. I didn't take a lot of pictures, except for some plants in the Botanical Ga...

Tajinaste azul Last year I found these beautiful blue flowers for the first time, but I set out to look for them a bit too late. Th...

Here it is. At least one version of "it"* While winter lasts and walking conditions are favorable I try to do at least one hi...

Infinitely impressive, if somewhat underused, City of Arts and Sciences For New Year holidays we went to Valencia. We've never bee...

Cofete ! Finally :) This weekend, 23—24 January, we came to Fuerteventura yet again. We used an excellent Bintazo offer by Binter Cana...

As I suspected, when you start walking down from Cruz de Tejeda, you can see Roque Nublo. You just need a clear day for that A few week...

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...

For Tamara’s birthday, we went for a short walk from (more or less) Las Lagunetas to Cruz de Tejeda. We often heard that Barranco de la Min...

View into the Valle de Agaete from the trail. There is a whole chain of reservoirs down there, some at alarmingly different levels from eac...

Afternoon light is a lot more interesting than the morning one Our little tent was bought and used only once some six years ago, on oc...

We spent almost all summer in Gran Canaria. Which was nice, but, for a bit of change, we went to La Gomera for five days. We took the early...

Up and away I am sure I said it a few times already, but let me say it once again — Caldera de Tejeda on Gran Canaria is the most spec...