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Not much comics blogging at the moment I’m afraid. I’m currently in the Canary Islands for a conference/meeting on the SPIRE camera for the Herschel Space Telescope. I’m not involved with the details and I’m only really here to find out what’s going on. Still La Palma is a nice place. It reminds me a lot of the Big Island in Hawai’i. Both are at the “active” hot spot ends of their volcanic island chains. No golden beaches here – just jagged and savage coastline. It really is quite spectacular.
Getting here wasn’t so much fun. If I’d booked a tour package it would have been dead easy, but I was flying scheduled so I had to go via London Heathrow, Madrid, Grand Canaria, and then La Palma airport itself.
The people are wonderful and I am so grateful that some of them speak English – I certainly don’t speak much Spanish beyond what I can parrot out of the phrase books. I can ask a question, but can’t understand the answer when it’s given. It would admittedly be easier if I had any aptitude for languages at all. As you can tell from these blog posts, the grammar and spelling I use in my own language is bad enough let alone trying to speak in somebody else’s tongue.I’m one of those native English speakers who is shamed when he travels to find that everybody he meets speaks fluent English, but he can’t do much more than order a beer in their language (one has to have some priorities).
Right, enough blogging I’m off to explore the local town and what would you know it’s mid-day and I’m an English Man. Maybe Noel Coward was right…
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