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Thursday, 17 July 2008



Wednesday was the Fiesta del Carmen, which is celebrated in Santa Cruz and Puerto Tazacorte. They have a special mass, and then they take the statue of the Virgin of Carmen out for a procession. So far, so much like most fiestas on the island. Only in this case, they take the statue of the virgin out on a boat parade, to bless the fishermen.

These photos are fromPuerto Tazacorte. The boats go from the harbour, round to the bay just off the beach, where they sail in circles for a while before heading back to port. Then they have fireworks.

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Wednesday, 16 July 2008

"The Music of Stars"

For some time rumours have been circulating around the island's that Brian May's going to give a concert here for the inauguration of the huge, new, Spanish telescope, GranTeCan. Today, the IAC announced that Jean-Michel Jarre has visited the observatories here and at Teide, and will be playing too.

My goodness, I think it's really going to happen.

More details at http://www.alphagalileo.org/index.cfm?_rss=1&fuseaction=readrelease&releaseid=530918

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Sunday, 13 July 2008

Fanzine Ruido 6



The island has a small, quarterly cultural magazine called Ruido, and issue 6 came out on Friday. As usual, they held a fiesta in a local bar, (Rocke's Bar on the Calle Real) with live music from local bands. And as usual, the place was packed.

The quality of the bands on these gigs is variable, but I like live music anyway.

Of course the magazine is on sale.



And the magazine comes with a ticket for the T shirt raffle.


And when the second T shirt went unclaimed, they threw it into the audience.


I didn't win a T shirt, but it was a great night out.

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