Due to bad weather the main carnival event had to be postponed.
So the procession in Santa Cruz took place in the evening which completely changed the atmosphere.
I had the chance to see the other big corso in Puerto de La Cruz today (in broad daylight) - photos from that event later…
For some reason, this relatively small country has produced many literary giants, including 4 Noble price winners. The one author that is most often associated with Ireland is James Joyce ("Dubliners", "Ulysses", "Finnegan's Wake") and "Bloomsday" (16 June) celebrating the adventures of Leopold Bloom (the main character in "Ulysses") in Dublin is a sort of National Holiday. To name just a few of the other Irish classics: Jonathan Swift, James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, Samuel Beckett,WB Yeats, Elizabeth Bowen, Bram Stoker ("Dracula"), Seamus Heaney, James Connolly, Oliver Goldsmith and modern author Brendan Behan. ...
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