As part of the overall preparation plan should there be widespread infection with the H1N1 virus the government are considering an action plan which would involve moving non-infectious and elderly patients to non-clinical facilities like hotels, gymnasiums and schools to free up hospital beds for the victims of the pandemic.
However overly dramatic this may seem given that WHO are still emphasizing the relative mildness of the disease in the greater majority of patients it does point out how aware the government is in the woefully inadequate number of hospital beds and specialist public health care available – especially in the South.
Pandemic or not, I wish they’d get it sorted so that an appointment at Mahon can be expected within the same month that it was asked for.
Hotels and Colleges Plan for H1n1
If you are on holiday in Tenerife at the end of August you will find lots of free beach-related activity and workshops centred round the Los Cristianos area. It’s all to do with the annual Aguaviva Canarias festival which is held to celebrate the sea and drive home the message that the wide blue oceans of the world are full of natural treasures that need to be tended, protected and loved. It is a collaborative effort with input from scientists, government bodies, musicians and entertainers, educators and the public.
There are free events and activites from August 22 and an open air concert on August 29th which requires payment but at only €15 should be worth the entrance fee. The whole festival comes to a close on 30th of August with the release of turtles which has been co-ordinated by members of the Neotropico Foundation. There are also volunteer educational projects like the cetacean research project run by Buena Proa.
Saturday 22 August
10:00 hrs – Beach Clean Up at Playa de Las Enojados, Las Galletas (free)
Sunday 23 August
18.30 hrs – Marine Life First Aid Workshop (seabirds, turtles and whales), Playa de las Vistas, Los Cristianos (free)
19.00 hrs – Marine Graffitti Workshop on the seafront of Los Cristianos, Memorial Plaza (free)
Friday 28 August
11.00 – 14.00 hrs and 15.00 – 17.00 horas, Aguaviva Baptisms – Make a spiritual connection with the ocean (free)
Dive into Aguaviva – Playa de Las Vistas. Playa de Las Vistas.
10.30 – 15.00 hrs – Workshops on the beach of Los Cristianos. (free)
18.00 – 20.00 hrs – Workshops on the beach of Los Cristianos. (free)
21:00 hrs Street Parade with CIRCUS JAM -Paseo Marítimo de Los Cristianos – Plaza de Los Caídos (free)
22.00 hrs – CONFABULADOS in concert. – Paseo Marítimo de Los Cristianos – Plaza de Los Caídos (free)
Saturday 29 August
11.00 – 14.00 hours and 15.00 – 17.00 am Aguaviva Baptisms – Get baptised in the ocean (free)
Dive into Aguaviva.- Playa de Las Vistas
10.00 hrs - Cleaning the Deep Arona in Playa de Las Vistas. (free)
13.00 hrs - Human Chain of Pollutionfrom the Playa de Las Vistas to the Centro Cultural de Los Cristianos. (free)
19.00 hrs Round Table in Arona in Playa de las Vistas (next to the breakwater of the port).
Panel discussion on the current state of conservation of the seafloor and the coast of the Canary Islands.Various interested groups are invited to attend including scuba divers, fishermen, scientists, researchers at the ULL and the Natural History Museum, conservationists, politicians and hoteliers.
10.30 – 15.00 hrs Workshops on the beach of Los Cristianos.
18.00 – 20.00 hrs Workshops on the beach of Los Cristianos.
21.00 hrs AguavivaFest Concert
The Zaragoza pop rock band Amaral are the headliners with We Are Standard, Line, Ramon Dominguez and Adjacant and DT Project also in the line up. See clips of Amaral, We Are Standard and Ramon Domingues below for a wee taster of what the night will hold.
Estadio de Los Cristianos, Annex. Advance tickets 15 euros.
Sunday 30 August
11.00 – 14.00 hours and 15.00 – 17.00 am Baptisms Aguaviva. Make direct contact with the underwater world with a free ocean baptism.
Dive into Aguaviva. Playa de Las Vistas.
10.30 – 15.00 pm Workshops on the beach of Los Cristianos.
16:30 hrs - Turtle Release in Playa de Las Vistas
21.00 hrs – Cinema on the Beach in Arona in Playa de Los Cristianos.
Surprise, surprise. A Kodak Lens Vision Centre poll revealed that men spend almost a year of their lives ogling women.
Prime goggle territory is, it seems, the supermarket though I suspect the result is skewed by lack of beach and swimming pool opportunities wherever the study was held.
Given the acres of flesh on display on an average day in Tenerife I guess Mercadona would come in a very poor second as a leering location. I know I only have to glance out the patio door when I am visiting Gaga to be slapped in the face with naked boobs and moobs of all sizes or dental floss trussed backsides wobbling unattractively around the pool.
Going topless doesn’t bother me at all really. In general the human body is a beautiful thing but god in heaven what are these people thinking? I see children in g-strings round the pool and I think to myself that if the child is allowed to look this overtly sexual at seven or eight what chance have her parents got of keeping her from leaving the house looking like a tuppenny tart by the time she’s fifteen?
At the other end of the scale are the great wobbling blancmanges which having already consumed the dental-floss g-string look ready to do the same to the nearest small child. What on earth possesses these people to think that they should inflict their huge white bums in such a manner on the rest of us?
I admit I am no Aphrodite myself but then I don’t go baring my wobbly bits for the world to see. Some may say if you’ve got it flaunt it. I say if you’ve got too much of it, please tuck it away in a normal swimming costume.
Back however to our study on men eyeing up women. They are not alone in their appreciation of the opposite sex and it’s not only meat and two veg for tonight’s tea that many women are mulling over whilst they are fondling the cantaloupes apparently. The five top spots that women look at men are at the pub, at the shops, on public transport at the supermarket and at work.
Hmmm. About the only totty I am interested in whilst heaving my overflowing and wonky trolley round the narrow aisles of the supermarket is the kind you layer over mince and veggies to make a shepherd’s pie but to each their own I guess.
Further to yesterday’s post about revolting neighbours in Costa Del Silencio, today’s Diario de Aviso reports that a spokesperson for the owners at Chayofita contacted them to deny that there was a majority uprising against the planned urbanization works. On the contrary, he said, “the majority is in favor because at the owners’ meeting there were only two votes against.”
Oh what a shame. I was looking forward to a bit of a public mêlée. Not that two people sat down in front of a small digger would have been much of a spectacle.
Anyway sticking to the whole Costa Del Silencio development story yesterday Costa Del Silencio’s shiny new image was unveiled to the media and sundry worthy government bods who were proudly shown the finished work at Jose Antonio Tavio and Calle Diana.
Much was made of the broad walkways, gardens and the aesthetically pleasing fence that is set to sweep round the town in a uniting ribbon of metal.
I wonder if anyone told them that though the broad walkway is complete at Calle Diana the aesthetically pleasing fence has only just been started. You can see the foundations for it behind the original fence which is still standing up the length of the road from Bella Vista to Maravilla.
Once it has actually been erected the new fence for all its modern chunky poles is pretty useless anyway as I have seen a whole family squeeze between the bars in a shortcut to their apartment in Eureka.
According to the Mayor, Jose Alberto Gonzalez Reveron, there is still plenty of money in the kitty to finish other streets of this town (which I am sure will come as a great relief to the residents of Calle Minerva where works are currently in progress) as well as for a 65,000 square meters park.
There has been talk of a theme park being built in the neighbourhood for years so it will be a significant leap forward for this area should this rumour actually come to pass. The park when completed would be roughly a third the size of the spectacular Siam Park and no doubt shovel tourist money into the area by the coach load.
Diario de Aviso: Costa Del Silencio Renews its Image
The neighbours are revolting in Costa Del Silencio.
Current roadworks and refurbishment of the CDS area has caused much upheaval in the last 18 months. Where once pushing a toddler’s pram along the path was risking death by car or getting hobbled by the cobbles now one could easily drive a JCB up the centre of the pedestrian walkways.
Walkers, cyclists, roller skaters, pram pushers … all can now skip along the pedestrian walkways arm in arm if they feel like it because the paths have gone from non-existent, ankle breaking road verges to great swathes of feet-friendly concrete. This is great news of course for those who didn’t enjoy taking their life in their hands when nipping to Hermusa for a pint of milk but in order to achieve this rambler’s nirvana there has been a bit of land grabbing going on resulting in great bites of garden being snatched off the local residential complexes.
Oddly, although in certain areas the contractors appear to have finished, tidied up and sodded off all is not as it seems. A peek over the wall at the tennis courts at the corner of Poliferno and Calle Diana shows that despite work being apparently finished foundations have been laid for a new wall bout seven feet in from the current one.
Something similar must be going on at the Chayofita end of Costa Del Silencio because the residents of block 10 are up in arms about a new wall that is scheduled to bisect their garden.They have made formal complaints to the appropriate governement departments (which shows the usual triumph of hope over experience) and no doubt expecting their petition to fall on deaf ears they have also been in touch with the newspapers. The Diario de Avisos reports that the nighbours will not stand to have their gardens shredded and are willing to stand in front of the spades.
Ooooh. While it all sounds a bit ‘pitchforks at twenty paces’ tempers are running high. Watch this space.
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A 47 year old foreigner was arrested at Reina Sofia last Thursday under suspicion of drug trafficking.
Entering Tenerife on a domestic flight, the man’s nervousness attracted the attention of the officers there who searched him and found two bags hidden about his person that after analysis were found to be full of cocaine with a gross weight of 1 kilo of narcotic.
Busted in Candelaria
In another drug related bust, a 28 year old had his collar felt in Candelaria after a period of surveillance led the police to suspect him of drug trafficking. After searching the individual’s home the officers recovered 12.5 grams of cocaine, two grams of hashish and two grams of marijuana and assorted drug-traficking paraphernalia.
Busted in Güimar
The Guardia Civil successfully brought to justice the nineteen year old high roller who kicked in the door of a local casino, forced open the till and made off with €70 in change. As a resident of the town in which he committed his dastardly act, the youth was quickly aprehended after he was identified by witnesses.
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