by Sheila Crosby | Aug 5, 2025 | Awara, Bajada, fiestas, hiking, walking
We’ve been having the big, once-every-5-years fiesta where they bring the statue of the Virgin down to Santa Cruz for 5 weeks, which has happened every five years since 1680, except for 2020. The statue is from about 1430. Most unusually, she’s terracotta,...
by Sheila Crosby | Jun 4, 2018 | Breña Baja, fiestas, Mazo, photography, Real life
Corpus Christi is a Catholic fiesta to celebrate the body of Christ. In Mazo they celebrate by creating big archways and carpets decrated with petals, seeds and leaves. In San Jose they mostly make carpets with coloured sea salt. Rather obligingly, Mazo’s...
by Sheila Crosby | Dec 24, 2017 | fiestas
Whether you celebrate Christmas or something else, I hope you have a wonderful time with whoever you most like to spend time with. In Spain, it’s traditional to wait until midnight on Christmas Eve before you put baby Jesus into the crib. Until then the manger...
by Sheila Crosby | Aug 22, 2016 | fiestas, La Palma, Mazo, Real life
It’s all been a bit serious lately, so on Sunday night I went to see the Borrachito fiesta in Hoyo de Mazo. I got a bit more than I bargained for, but I certainly got out of my rut.
by Sheila Crosby | Aug 1, 2015 | astronomical events, astronomy, eclipse, excursions, fiestas, La Palma, landscape, Moon, observatory, Photography, Roque de los Muchachos, Santa Cruz de la Palma, star party, stargazing
From 25th September 2015 to October 9th, the island of La Palma in the Canaries will host Astrofest, a festival of astronomy, with activities for all ages and knowledge levels. There will be an international conference for astrotourism professionals, a...
