La Palma Island

• The Beast is still smoking 2 years ago The newspaper Canarias Ahora has some drone footage of the volcano. It’s impressive, and to me at least, menacing. As you can see, it’s still outgassing, and if you’re downwind the smell of rotten eggs is quite noticeable. The volcano still doesn’t have an official name. Newspapers refer to...
• San Pedro's fiesta 2 years ago The municipality of San Pedro is holding it’s annual fiesta in honour of Saint Peter. You can see the full program of activities above, but the one I recommend is the concert by Los Vinilos on Tuesday 28th. They play music from the 60s. This is your chance to hear “Yellow Submarine” in...
• Santa Cruz Summer Car Park is Open Again 2 years ago Parking in Santa Cruz is often a problem, which isn’t surprising when you have 21st-century traffic and a 15th-century street plan. It helps when the town hall opens up parking in the Las Nieves ravine, just below the concrete ship in the middle of the road. The ground looks fine for walking, but...
• Weather and Thistles 2 years ago This week was a weather-crazy week. Rain, drizzle, lots of wind, a little bit of sunshine, crazy skies and not very warm … really not what you normally would expect on La Palma at the end of May. But it was also fun to walk along Las Cuevas in El Paso and admire the skies and the drifts of...
• Pink Beauties 2 years ago It’s this time of the year La Palma displays clouds of pink beauties … rockroses (cistus). Despite volcanic ash and odd-smelling gases in the air these beauties are flowering in abundance right at the moment. The flowers look so delicate, a bit like very fine tissue paper. And they last only...

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