Aug 24th, 2010 at 8:00AM: 84-year old British adventurer Anthony Smith has big plans for 2011. In January of next year, he and three other men, will attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean aboard a raft made out of plastic gas pipes. Setting out from the Canary islands, they'll cover more than 2800 miles, in 60 days, finishing up in the Bahamas sometime in March. If successful, it'll be the culmination of a dream that Smith ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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84-year old set to cross Atlantic on a raft
Aug 24th, 2010 at 8:00AM: 84-year old British adventurer Anthony Smith has big plans for 2011. In January of next year, he and three other men, will attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean aboard a raft made out of plastic gas pipes. Setting out from the Canary islands, they'll cover more than 2800 miles, in 60 days, finishing up in the Bahamas sometime in March. If successful, it'll be the culmination of a dream that Smith ...Ryanair dumps passengers on wrong island - doesn't care
Feb 19th, 2010 at 4:00PM: A planeload of passengers on a Ryanair flight from the UK to Lanzarote (one of the Spanish Canary Islands) learned the hard way that low cost carriers carry a hidden price.
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Instead of landing in Lanzarote, the plane landed in Fuerteventura (about 30 miles ...Details about the Cunard ship the Queen Elizabeth
Mar 30th, 2009 at 5:30PM: The maiden voyage of the Queen Elizabeth, Cunard's latest cruise ship endeavor, won't be until October 12, 2010 when it sets sail from England for the Canary Islands. Details about what the ship will feature have begun to be revealed.
It sounds fancy--more than fancy. Polished wood, marble, artwork that depicts the royal palaces, and special dining rooms for people who have paid more money add to ...Another Low-Cost Carrier Fails
Oct 18th, 2008 at 11:00AM: Low-cost-carrier LTE ceased to operate today because of its financial predicament. The Spanish carrier stopped booking flights on Thursday, but some would-be holidaymakers were left with luggage in hand, waiting to get from rainy England to the sunny Canaries. LTE specialized in such routes and worked closely with several English tour operators. LTE was not a newcomer to the LCC game. It has been ...Toboggan Riding in Madeira
Jul 30th, 2007 at 11:14AM: A friend of mine is writing a fictional memoir of her mother's life. It's fictious because she is imagining the specific details, but the big picture events she is writing about, for the most part, happened. One big picture event was when her mother went to Madeira on a Canary Islands cruise as the personal maid of a wealthy woman. My writing group feasts on the details.
While doing research for ...Silbo Gomero, the Whistling Language of La Gomera
Mar 26th, 2007 at 8:37AM: The Canary Islands lie off the southwest coast of Spain. Though Castilian Spanish is the official language of the island chain, some adults on the island of La Gomera still use Silbo Gomero, an ancient language that's "spoken" through whistles. In fact, Silbo (taken from the Spanish word silbar, "to whistle") boasts a vocabulary of more than 4000 words that can be heard from miles away, which is ...
