The Miss Tutti Frutti Contest: Travel Tales of the South by Graeme Lay

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By Graeme Lay

File Note: unique is 2004, book is 2012

This great selection of go back and forth tales from the South Pacific unearths Paul Gauguin's surprising Tahitian secrets and techniques, retraces the final tragic days of Robert Louis Stevenson, and recounts the author's personal haunting through Herman Melville, in addition to his makes an attempt to seduce the Slovenian Olympic ski crew within the cook dinner Islands.

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E Museo Canario C/Dr Verneau, 2. § 928 336 800. # 10am–8pm Mon–Fri; 10am–2pm Sat–Sun. com Santa Ana The building of the cathedral began in 1497 and took 400 years to complete. The lengthy gestation affected both its architectural form and interior furnishings. The Neo-Classical fa˜ade hides Gothic vaults resting on slender columns, altar retables, Baroque pulpits and sculptures by José Luján Pérez. The crypt contains the tomb of José de Viera y Clavijo, Canary traveller, historian of the Enlightenment period and the author of Noticias de la Historia General de Canarias.

The caves were used for grain storage and for religious services. Guanche individuals were selected to spend several years in solitude in these caves, giving themselves to the service of the god Abor. Their prayers were to ensure the god’s protection for the island’s people. E Cenobio de Valerón # 10am–5pm Wed–Sun. 56 T H E C A N A R Y I S L A N D S A R E A B Y A R E A How Rum is Made its warming and even medicinal properties. Its alcohol content can vary from 40 to 80 per cent. It is the main ingredient of another where its most famous producers famous beverage, grog, which are Jamaica, Cuba, Haiti and is 50 per cent rum, as well as Martinique.

Romería de Nuestra Señora de la Luz (midOct), Las Palmas, Gran Canaria. Procession of boats at sea celebrate the Virgin. Festival Internacional de Cine de Las Palmas (Oct–Nov), Gran Canaria. Film festival attracting many international movie stars. N OVEMBER Fishing, an all-year-round occupation in the Canary Islands International Ecological Film Festival Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife. Shows films that are devoted mainly to the Canary Islands. Feast of the Teide Volcano (16 Nov) Guía de Isora, Tenerife.

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