Oostende, Belgium winter 2002/2003

 

The weather on the "hot" tropical island was more like Scandinavian... Wind, rain, temperature about 15! Local Spaniards say it is first time for the last 25 years. Tourists looked veeeeery disappointed.

What can you do? Eat cakes.

 

This is the way they grow grape on Lanzarote. Huge fields are divided on little squares with borders from stones (Our wives do this, joked taxi-driver).  And we don't know why. Any way -amazing! A lot of work.

 

The land of volcanoes... Actually all the island is covered by lava. The last eruption has happened at 1731, when the houses were burned and people had to leave to the closest island (Grand-Canaria).

 

There is the famous restaurant on the top of the one of the highest volcanoes. Half-meter under the ground the temperature is 300 degrees! So the restaurant is built on the concrete base, to avoid excess heating. But the heat from underground is used for cooking. The name of the restaurant is "Diablo" of course :)

 

This is the Garden of cactuses, about 1000 species. Some of them are very cute! There are also big fields of cactuses on the island. They seems to make something from these plants (tequila??)

 

Carnaval!