It’s a long time since I’ve done my last blog post? Why? Well I undertook a big change in my life back in June 2020. The U.K. was in lockdown due to the high levels of corona virus infections. Lockdown…
I arrived back from La Palma on the 10 March 2020 after a month of sunning myself. heard of the reports of a deadly flu type virus breaking out in Wuhan in China online. But like most of us in…
Since we returned to the UK from La Palma on 10 March all aspects of the news and internet including YouTube is being consumed by the Covid 19 world wide pandemic. The rate of growth of the respiratory virus has…
Carnival of Los Llanos de Aridane In the Los Llanos main Plaza, when we first arrived, I noticed the Japanese symbols and Chinese lanterns hanging from the street lamp posts. Before the final parade they had a stage concert with…
Cetaceans Yesterday we took a trip out from Tazacorte harbour on a whale watching boat. Who we’d been out with 5 years ago when I was here last on Barada. We asked the lady in the office what they had…
I’ve been watching the various metoffice weather reports of the two major storms that collided with the UK in past two weeks. Storm Dennis and Ciara came from the west across Atlantic Ocean bringing in lots of high winds containing high levels…
Back in 2014 I arrived at La Palma as my first port of call when sailing Barada my Nicholson 32 sailing boat. Earlier in 2007 I had visited the canaries but hadn’t sailed to the two outer islands of La…
I’m presently down in La Palma in the Canary Islands off the coast of Western Africa. Staying in a apartment in small town of Tazacorte which is surrounded by banana plantations. The weather in la Palma is in the mid…