I tried to imagine some time in the future when I look back at our 20+ years in El Pinar and recall my most rememberable places, eve...

      Like all young people, my generation insisted on believing we could defy the inevitable. We imagined, for instance, we could opt out...

  Rain, rain, go away, Come again another day! Children's ditty   To most people the idea of pleasure is incompatible with rain. It da...

  I have no idea where I am. On a deckchair somewhere, I'm uncomfortable. The light is blinding me to my surroundings. After an age of a...

It would have been suicide to try to pass the car in front, stationary as it was on the hairpin bend on the main road through El Pinar. Afte...

Some sixty years ago, enterprising farmers from La Palma decided to set up banana plantations in El Hierro. The idea was to truck down from...