Pics and other stuff

Beautiful water. Playa Mujeres This year’s summer holidays were a bit scrambled for us, due to this and that. To punctuate the month of...

An eruption? A wildfire? Nah... After years living on Gran Canaria I have identified for myself the three main "hanami" events...

Alien tentacles! Cthulhu raising to the surface! Tremble, you feeble humans... etc When I went up the Mount Teide two years ago I didn...

Busy busy bees When the year is just starting and everything goes green, it is time to check on some of our favourite plants on Gran C...

Somebody switched on an enormous spotlight behind Amurga massif. On one of our very first visits to Gran Canaria we booked a stay in a...

I liked this stage of the sunrise the most — the cone of shadow under Roque Bentayga was spectacular An excursion to greet the first ra...

Christmas tree decoration in the Barranco Guiniguada, between Triana and Vegueta I want to have a break from all things hiking and show ...

So far, this is probably my favorite kite ever. It was there all these years, I think. I even have it on the cover screen of my laptop. L...

Impressive cliffs of Tamadaba. After I went to see Cenobio de Valeron I've shown pics of it to my walking companions. One of them ...

Wonderfully weird and organic Cenobio de Valerón, “Valeron monastery”, is one of the iconic sights of Gran Canaria. It is not really ...

A Nevermore moment (see the black object on the top of the chapel? It is a raven, doing his thing) This year on our holidays I wanted t...

Horizontal panorama Some time ago I wrote that we would repeat the visit to the Barranco de Las Vacas following a linear route Temisas...

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...

Once again, Facebook brought me something useful — this time a reference to a place called Barranco de Las Vacas (Cows’ Ravine) between t...

First published 27 March 2018 @ Listen, Learn, Read According to my old Rough Guide to Spain (this book served me well but I left it ...

New shoots coming out of a thick scorched branch Do you remember this line from Naked Gun 33⅓ : “We analyzed the wood fibers in the p...

View inland from Degollada de las Brujas Reserva natural integral de Inagua ( strict nature reserve Inagua) is a protected pine forest...

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...