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Merry Christmas from Lanzarote
Christmas Parade in Puerto del Carmen last night – it´s a bit like a Mini-Carnival! Related articles, courtesy of Zemanta: Simon Calder’s Holiday Helpdesk: Is Lanzarote a good idea for a warm mid-winter welcome? La Palma and Lanzarote
R.I.P. Buster
My neighbours just lost their 10 month old ginger tom Buster, whom you probably know from previous posts and pictures on this blog. He was run over by a car last weekend, and after putting up posters on Monday, they got a call from someone saying that they had found him dead in the street…
Fouling up someone else´s country…
Yesterday afternoon I saw an elderly woman let her little black dog do a huge shit on the pavement of a busy street near the Biosfera Shopping Center, Puerto del Carmen, and then nonchalantly walk on without cleaning it up. I accosted her, asking her in Spanish if she could please pick up the dog…
Empty the Tanks Lanzarote: NO to Dolphin Prisons!
It was a really good turnout today at Rancho Texas Lanzarote, where the construction of the new dolphinarium is under way as we speak. I do hope we made enough noise, for them to stop what they are doing, but fear that greed and profit will, sadly, prevail in the end. But then… we simply…
Cold! You call that cold?!
Moving from cold, wet London to sunny, dry Lanzarote was one of my best moves ever. All my adult life I never dealt too well with the typically damp British weather, and when in 2004 I decided to live somewhere other than London, returning to my equally wet home town Hanover in Northern Germany did…