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Dia de Canarias

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007
Tomorrow, May 30th is the 'dia de canarias', that is literally, the canaries day. The 'dia de canarias' celebrates the aniversary of the first session of the canarian parliament held in 1983, 10 months after we were publicly declared an autonomous region. A lot of municipalities decorate the streets and organize special events. I would like to focus on th municipality of Mogan, where there'll be a lot of interesting things done. Today will be the official start of the 'San Antonio' festivities in Mogan. At the 30th there will be a craftwork and gastronomy fair held in the 'Plaza de las Marañuelas' in Arguineguin at 18:00 which is something i highly recomend you. Have a nice 'canaries day' ;)

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The after-election day

Monday, May 28th, 2007
Well, for thos of you who are interested, and if you voted yesterday for regional elections you probably are, the results are commonly known but i will summ them up a bit. Though i don't like to talk about politics, this change for Las Palmas is worth to mention. Big knock out for the Partido Popular in our capital since the PSOE won with absolute majority, ending a 3 terms in a row of "popularity". Jeronimo Saavedra (PSOE) is new Las Palmas major, Jose Manuel Soria (Partido Popular) is president of the council again but socialist candidate Juan Fernando Lopez Aguilar (PSOE) has 10 days to state a vote of no confidence and make a pact with other parties to gain the presidency. The parliament results are: 26 M.P.'s for PSOE, 17 M.P.'s for CC-PNC, 15 for the PP and 2 for CC-AHI. Telde got took over almost entirely by Nueva ...
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Skulls & Bones

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

There you go again,

big screen time with the (aparently) last part of this amazing adventure 'saga'. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End is the title of Disney's last top production. Its' official realease date was supposed to be on may 25th but Disney decided finally to release it a day earlier. Therefore, tomorrow is the big date.

Casting returnees are Johnny Depp (Captain Jack Sparrow), Orlando Bloom (Will Turner), Keira Knightley (Elizabeth Swann) and Geoffrey Rush (Captain Barbossa) with Chow Yun Fat making his first appearance as singapore pirate Sao Feng.
Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards makes a star appearance as Jack Sparrows father.

Oh, this makes now clear why he fell from a coconut palm a couple of months ago... :) ...he was practicing his pirate role ;)

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More info

Monday, May 21st, 2007
I got good news for you. One of these days i'll finish uploading all the info on the main page on appartments and homes to rent, hotels, cottages, etc... here on Gran Canaria. When i have everything uploaded i'll post again with all the main links, but i think you'll find it very interesting to have a look at its' content. Stay tuned for the upcoming info.

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Weather

Sunday, May 20th, 2007
The last three days, you might've noticed a thick grey cloud layer above us. That what we have to deal with due to being a miniature continent. After a sunny hot week it's now all cloudy as if it was deep winter. The national institute of meteorology has predicted more clouds and possibly rain for tomorrow with temperatures between 17º and 24º degrees. Leave your speedos and bikinis at home, it's time not to sunbath ;)

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