Last night was the ‘Burning of the Sardine’ here in Los Cristianos and Elinor took the camera out to record the event. Here is a video clip, apologies for the quality, but I hope you will be able to see the action OK! According to the Arona website, the event is: … a grotesque funeral…
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Los Cristianos Carnaval Parade 2011
These parades come around very quickly don’t they? Due to start at 17:00hrs yesterday from in front of the Paloma Beach complex, we set off from home to walk down to our chosen spot at about 16:30hrs. There are crowds and crowds of people already lining the route, many having brought their own chairs, some…
Carnaval Publicity
Happy Sunday to you all! We were woken up this morning with loud Carnaval Music and Police blowing their whistles (to control the traffic). Looked out from Al’s Corner to see the traffic stopped and a dance troupe on the roundabout being filmed – not sure exactly what it is for but on this beautiful…
Tenerife Carnaval 2011
Yay! It is that time of year again, how quickly has that come around (must be getting old!)? We have a load of festivals here in the Canary Islands, but probably the best know of all is the Carnaval season, its a time of absolute mayhem, terrific hilarity and so many opportunities for dressing up…
The Majestic
On the 19th February we set off to drive to Puerto de La Cruz, Alan and myself having been transformed into Alison and Steph! The idea was that we were going to watch the High Heels Marathon that we had read so much about. Well our plan was flawed, you see we also decided to…
Los Cristianos Carnaval
We had a wonderful afternoon watching the Carnaval procession yesterday, were you there? Here are a few photos that we took, hope you enjoy them. Let us know which are your favourites, or if you have some of your own, why not send them in and we will include them in another article on The…
