Category: Travel Writing
Probably many people have shared my feeling of disappointment on landing at Santa Cruz. I had long ago realised that few places come up to the standard of one’s preconceived ideas, so my mental picture was not in this case a very beautiful one; but even so, the utter hideousne...
Those who are interested in relics should visit Socorro, about an hour distant from Guimar, the original home of the miraculous image of the Virgin de Candelaria. So celebrated...
4. Part 4The packing-houses are also a blot on the landscape, sometimes great unsightly sheds tacked on to what has once been the summer residence of an old Spanish family, and here crow...
8. Part 8On the western slopes the pine woods soon commence, the splendid trees increasing in size until the sacred Pino de la Virgen is reached--a giant whose trunk measures some 25 ft....
5. Part 5On the other side of the yawning _barranco_ lie Sant Antonio and El Sitio del Pardo, both old houses, built long before the town began to develop and new houses cropped up on th...
7. Part 7In most gardens the trees comprise several different Ficus, the Pride of India (_Melia Azedarach_), many palms, oranges, mangos and guavas, lagerstrœmias, pomegranates and datur...
1. Part 1Probably many people have shared my feeling of disappointment on landing at Santa Cruz. I had long ago realised that few places come up to the standard of one’s preconceived ide...
2. Part 2The little town is not without attraction, though its streets are dusty and unswept, being only cleaned once a year, in honour of the Feast of Corpus Christi, on which day at th...
3. Part 3“The region of ferns is succeeded by a wood of juniper trees and firs, which has suffered greatly from the violence of hurricanes (not one is now left). In this place, mentioned...
9. Part 9The conquest of the islands seems to have occupied the Spaniards for nearly a century, as in 1402 we read of Jean de Bethencourt (a name still common in the islands), who fitted...