Pics and other stuff

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...

Heart-stopping beauty Every year, the almond trees of Gran Canaria put forth a beautiful show of blooms. The almond flower festival i...

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...