As reported in Secret Tenerife, today is the day for the Gala de Elección of the Carnaval Queen for 2009 and therefore the official launch of Carnaval 2009. You can watch the ceremony and the hopeful entrants in all their spectacular glory live on RTVC t.v. or internet from 9.30.
Okay groceries to your door, financial services, books, opticians… what next from ASDA? Well online Travel Services of course and via ASDA Travel online you can be picking up a great deal on your next Tenerife holiday or check out worldwide bargain breaks or theme holidays.
Why indeed?
The internet is a wonderful place and what makes it so is the interlinking nature of related sites so that when researching a topic (like your next holiday in Tenerife) you are able to follow an organic path through a wealth of information about any subject under the sun.
With that in mind I have to recommend the Isle of Tenerife as a great site for anyone looking for info on the island particularly related to specific towns or pueblos. There is also an Isle of Tenerife blog which is worth checking out for its running commentary on Tenerife events and news.
El que sabe no lo cuenta.
El que lo cuenta no lo sabe.
There is a bit of a mystery over Lao Tse. Did this Chinese philosopher actually exist or was the use of the name Lao Tse which roughly translates to ‘Old Boy’ really just a convenient way to gather together a collection of wise sayings and adages, the origin of which has long been forgotten?
Sadly apt given the topic of the previous post…
Se puede matar al soñador, pero no al sueño.
Civil Rights activist and associate of Martin Luther King, Ralph David Abernathy, did not live to see a black man in the white house but he was obviously in no doubt about the power of believing in and fighting for a dream.
As a cayuco landed in Tenerife on Saturday delivering 78 people to shore with a further three thought to have disappeared into the night those on board another boat carrying Moroccan migrants which overturned near Lanzarote were not so lucky. Four drowned and 18 were reported missing.
This tragedy is going to play out again and again despite the best efforts of the International Organisation of Migration and spokesman Youssou N’Dour.
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Deeply moving as the IOM campaign might be, according to fisherman Ameth Niang it is doomed to failure. “Warning would-be immigrants of the dangers involved in reaching Europe will have no effect, he said, since “people will leave because they do not have a choice.”
Whether your interest is in the latest trends in swimwear, in photography or in seeing how beautifully Tenerife has been used as a backdrop for a gaggle of scantily clad girls, I’m sure you will find this link to the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition 2009 On Location in Tenerife web feature illuminating.
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