A week in Tenerife – Part 1

We’d never been to the Canaries before. Its only a couple of hundred miles west of Africa and when we went, in early September, it was still really hot (compared to a particularly drab and chilly UK).

View of La Gomera from hotel

A week in Tenerife – Part 2

Read Part 1 here

Volcanoes, Hire Cars & Dodgy Roads

Tenerife is a volcanic island that has kind of collapsed in the middle and then built up again. We decided to drive right into it. But fear not, the last eruption was ages ago (well 1909 – that isn’t exactly ages ago come to think of it).

Everything Flows

In the mid 1960’s a chap called Vasily Grossman died in Moscow at age 58. He was a reporter during World War II and in the post war years wrote a communist response to War and Peace (called Life and Fate) and a lesser known, shorter work called Everything Flows; I doubt I would ever have read this book if it were not for the Kindle.

Big Brother – someone’s got to like it Week 3

So Big Brother is back on our screens and no one is watching. Well only 0.1m people in the UK which in telly terms is very low. But the die hard fans and the original viewers that feel obliged to keep an eye on things, remain. I am one of the latter.

Ever been to Wichita?

Seen Planes, Trains and Automobiles? Remember that bit when the cousin spits in his hand and shakes Steve Martin’s? Remember how cold and flat it looked?  How when he asked John Candy how cold it was he just said ‘One’? Thats Wichita.