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Great initiative

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
The summer is doing its best to provide sunshine wherever it's needed and we on Gran Canaria fortunately have plenty of it. The Red Cross organizes from this monday till mid september and initiative to help handicaped people enjoy the beach as much as we do. The "leisure at the beach program" gives people with mobility problems the oportunity to take walk at the shore or a dip of the 'Las Canteras' beach in Las Palmas. For those living in Las Palmas the program includes a "pick-up service" in the morning for those who need it and then from 11:30 till 16:30, several volunteers will help take care of them. Other activities are planed too, swapping the seashore with visits to different places of Gran Canaria. Now that is one good news i think. Great guys!!

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I’m alive

Monday, July 9th, 2007
Sorry for this break once again. :S Don't think it's intentionally but a students life is busy while the exams last. Please be patient, i finish this Tuesday and hopefully be posting again from then onwards Thank you, Rayco.

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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 This was originally made to "strengthen the sun", since the days will get shorter every day until the winter solstice.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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