The Road from Santiago

  While it is possible to talk about a property with sea views till, to be honest it is getting to the point where the ironic laughter turns to tears.  We are rising another 260m to be 622m above sea level at the end. Yesterday I cheated you of one of the fascinating fact that they whistle a lot on the Canarias.   Silbo Gomero, also known as el silbo ("the whistle"), is a whistled register of Spanish that is used by the good people  of La Gomera . It was  used to communicate across the ravines and valleys that radiate through the island.  A speaker of Silbo Gomero is sometimes called a silbador ("whistler"). It was used by the island's pre-Spanish inhabitants. . Silbo was adapted to Spanish during the Spanish settlement in the 16th century and was widely spoken throughout into the 17th century declined in the 1950s - mostly as people moved for better jobs or got telephones.  A certain degree of seeing it in the 1950s as part of a discredited p...

  We haven’t had any useful, yet trivial information for a while so let us see what ‘ theculturetrip.com ’ have to say about it.  Much of which you know already but here is a thing or two helpful things. At 3,718 metres (12,198 feet) high, Mount Teide is taller than any of the mountains on the mainland, including the Pyrenees. El Hierro, the smallest and most southernly of the islands sources most all of its power from wind, sun, and water. The water in Lanzarote’s El Golfo crater glows green..Seawater trapped in the form of a lake has turned an acid green colour due to the algae which lives there. It also creates a particularly striking contrasts to the surrounding black volcanic rock of the Playa Charco de los Ciclos. Time to push on.  I mentioned Blackpool the other day and you know what, here is the Blackpool Sports Bar. It has 4.8 stars from 24 reviews.   Tony Blackburn, I don’t think that one, said ‘ Visited during the afternoon, limited but good snacks served ...