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San Juan 07

Saturday, June 23rd, 2007

San Juan

Don't get alarmed tonight, if the entire island seems to be submerged in chaos with bonfires everywhere. We are neither under attack nor have been hit by a meteor shower. :P ;) If you don't have nothing to do tonight, i higly recomend you wherever you are on the isle, but specially those near to the Playa del Inlges (San Bartolomé) and the Canteras (Las Palmas) beaches to visit these beaches around 12:00 PM. Like every year in june, normally coinciding with days around the summer solstice, the night of the 23rd to 24th, we celebrate "San Juan". In this peculiar festivity there is a large fireworks spectacle and people make huge bonfires almost everywhere but the bigest are seen at the beaches. This was originally made to "strengthen the sun", since the days will get shorter every day until the winter solstice. You should witness ...
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New low cost flights

Saturday, June 9th, 2007
The Gran Canaria Tourist Board, has come to an agreement with the airline 'Jet2' wich will offer, starting in October this year, low cost flights from the UK to Gran Canaria. Leeds, Manchester, NewCastle and Belfast are the cities chosen for this particular project which will offer one daily low cost flight from each city to Gran Canaria, increasing the actual air traffic between Gran Canaria and the UK in almost 10%. In adition to this the Tourist Board has also made another agreement with 'Nowegian Air' which will offer low cost flights from Oslo to Gran Canaria. This new service is supposed to start in winter this year. How you like that ?!?! Kinda cool i think. That'll give our tourism-based economy a little push. :D

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Open night on CAAM

Thursday, June 7th, 2007
Tomorrow, June 8th the CAAM, the spanish acronym for Atlantic Center for Modern Art, offers an 'open night' due to the 'Niki de Saint Phalle & Jean Tinguely' exhibition titled L'Art et L'Amour. The center will not close its doors at 9 p.m. as usually and will remain open till 12 p.m. for this 'open night'. The exhibition will also include the performance of the 'Rayko León Trío' jazz group, but you will also be able to visit the rest of exhibition rooms of this museum. I won't be able to go but if anybody is, don't hesitate to comment on this. I think It'll be interesting to read more about it.

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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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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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