Blogs from La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain, Europe - page 2

, We flew from Manchester UK to a small rock in the ocean. The airport for La Palma is small, we are quickly outside in the sun and the transfer to our hotel takes 5 minutes! There is a peaceful, isolated feeling here. Just the noise of the waves crashing onto the dark sandy beaches of Los Cancajos our resort for 2weeks. We are by the sea with towering mountains in the distance and we can see the port of Santa Cruz. The temperature Is very pleasant around 25c. Not bad for November. Our hotel Hacienda San Jorge has a wonderful garden with lots of different trees and shrubs. This surrounds a lovely swimming pool. There is also a resident parrot, some ducks and a family of cats!... read more

La Palma exploded into being with the enthusiasm typical of volcanic islands, creating a teardrop shape and an impressive height for a diminutive base. Unlike some of the other Canary Islands it hasn’t experienced a similar explosion of package tourism. The Canary Islands didn’t feature very highly on my travel list but they should have done. Having spent the past six months on the islands, I am eating snobbish-traveller humble pie. La Palma is a place I’ve visited several times (home as it is to wonderful landscapes and my even more wonderful mum;-) but I’ve been lucky enough to call it home for a good chunk of 2011. La Palma is a walking island. Whether you consider yourself a walker or not is entirely irrelevant. With volcanic craters and mountain ridges, pine forests and lava flow, ... read more

In den 10 Tagen die ich nun schon hier bin hatte ich ab und zu das Gefuehl, dass ich hier meine Zeit verschwende. Wir haben nur wenig im Garten gearbeitet und ich hab geglaubt, dass ich ausser aus den vielen spannenden Buechern hier nicht viel ueber Permakultur gelernt habe. Inzwischen habe ich aber gemerkt, dass ich einiges in der wohl wichtigsten "Disziplin" in Sachen Permakultur und Oekodoerfer gelernt habe: Kommunikation. Zuerst war ich als Gast nicht gross involviert, habe aber immer mehr an den "Meetings" mit verschiedensten Kommunikationsarten teilgenommen (Talking Circle, Co-Counseling, Consensus...). Und auch bei meinem Ausflug gestern zur Finca Tierra hab ich erneut festgestellt, wie wichtig es ist, gute Kommunikation aktiv zu lernen, sogar schon in kleinsten Gruppen oder auch als Paar/Familie. Da sind so viele tief verankerte Gewohnheiten aus unserer Gewinner-Verlierer Kultur ... read more

¿Want to pratice adventure sports across Tibetan bridges, ladders, zip, tarzan jump, networks? You have the chance at the Recreation Park in La Laguna de Barlovento in La Palma. ... read more

Snapshot: The red eye flight took us DC. Here to report the Obama house is standing with lots of barricades. We met with Michael´s college friend Ted. The DC weather was wonderful. ...though we could not find a single banana anywhere near the White house!!! With a two hour delay, we somehow managed to catch our flight from Spain to the Canary Islands. With volcanic rocks, black beach sand, and palm trees we are enjoying our time with Sigi and Papa Polenz Banana Index: Bananas are everywhere. Exc'pt near the White house). So many in fact, groves are found right along cities. Because of tough tariffs these smaller type bananas are only shipped to Spain. Costing only 0.20/pound on this island. In rough times, locals would collect pine needles to use as cushion for bananas when ... read more