Pics and other stuff

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...

Caldera de Tejeda planet After the wildfire of September 2017 I try to go to Las Cumbres, the highest area of the island, as often a...

Spooky beauty of burnt pines The Canary Islands are not very seasonal, but there is a significant difference in rainfall between wint...

Los Urros de Liencres panorama While Kirill had already lived and worked in Santander a couple of years ago, it was only this summer ...

The summit of Teide is small, so there is only a limited number of people who can fit. This summer started well for me — I went up Tei...

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...