Sunday, February 10, 2008
Puerto de la Cruz Carnaval Parade
Sod's Law always brings some rain or bad weather, at least once while carnaval is on in the Canary Islands and this year has been no exception, which explains why the sky is washed out and the colours a bit hazy in these photos.
Carnaval goers wouldn't go hungry with stalls selling food in the Plaza de Charco.But all of the events and concerts planned in Santa Cruz yesterday, got postponed because of the rains (well, actually a multiple-choice, smorgasbord of strange weather phenomena), with hot calima coming in from the east and cold air from the west, so it was no wonder it collided in the middle and created a huge storm. And boy, that was some storm we had in the early hours of Saturday too!
Even La Palma got snow!
No costume, no problem! You'd have be as mad as a hatter to pay the "last minute" prices tho!As Leslie says, "Clouds creeping over Mt Teide & Las Canadas from a Southerly direction is not a good sign." Normal weather it was not!
Here at "Secret Tenerife Towers," we were woken at 5.30 a.m. when lightening struck an electrical pylon, not 25 meters from the house with a noise like a huge explosion!
So, after 9 hours without power; cold, damp, no hot food, no decent coffee, we decided to go out. 
After a call down to Puerto de la Cruz to get the advance weather report, we left to go see some of their closing carnaval parade.
Like everything here, the Gran Coso Apoteosis del Puerto de la Cruz was listed as starting at 4 p.m., but the reality was that it started at 5 p.m. at the "wrong" end of town for those of us who needed to dash back to the bus station to catch our last bus home at 6 p.m.
This reduced the couple of hours we thought we had to a mere 5 minutes of the parade and meant we didn't see a lot, but we do have some photos for you:
Coso Puerto de la Cruz 2008
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