Los Ingles, Gran Canaria Islands CanariesYippiii! Flight in the islands!
11 Oct 2008
Los Ingles, Gran Canaria Islands CanariesSession paragliding on the small coastal site near Las Palmas. Too little wind to fly a few splashes and a good session of inflation on the ground to keep the good habits.
11 Oct 2008
Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, traditional CanariesFête Islands tonight. It is not yet fully why and how but we have eaten and drunk! The Canaries have a sense of fun!
11 Oct 2008
Las Palmas, Gran Canaria Islands CanariesFête traditional in the city. A french teacher tells the whole party my project. Of a sudden I become the mascot of the group. It has its good sides ...
11 Oct 2008
Las Palmas, Gran Canaria Islands CanariesScéance repair for small sail Ozone: It's light but fragile an ultralight! But hey ca be repaired anywhere.
12 Oct 2008
Pico de Las Nieves, Gran Canaria 1949m Islands CanariesWe made it mate! Not easy to get to the true summit: a military zone bar the entrance. Some smashed screens allow the passage.
13 Oct 2008
Tamarraceite, Gran Canaria, Day 1 of islands CanariesBivouac rise of Pico del Nieves, Gran Canaria.Trouvé top of the field at night. Mario pépare to leave.
13 Oct 2008
Pico de Las Nieves, Gran Canaria 1949m Islands CanariesBivouac at the top.
13 Oct 2008
Pico de las Nieves, Gran Canaria Islands CanariesVue the Teide, 3700m, on the island of Tenerife, from the top of Gran Canaria.
13 Oct 2008
Climb to Terror, Gran Canaria Islands CanariesMario, 14, Dutch TOURS 2 years with his parents on their sailboat. More than motivated to go around the island by bike, we walk together in four days. And I have not had to slow down: bravery of youth!
13 Oct 2008
Pico de Las Nieves, Gran Canaria 1949m Islands CanariesVol the summit. Not better to have a nice view of the island!
14 Oct 2008
Pico de Las Nieves, Gran Canaria 1949m Islands CanariesCe day is the day. I pays off in the wilderness from the top of the island. An open area, facing south, so the breeze, slightly downwind of a prominence before, will do. Steep though. Mario will be a valuable aid in this action there.
14 Oct 2008
Las Palmas, Gran Canaria Islands CanariesMa first puncture, after some 4500 kms! Strength is certainly not the right time. 22H, we wait, and we're tired and starved to death ... And to my shame, I will put no less than three hours to repair! Almost no glue, double puncture, tube replacement inadaptée.Pour defense tire screw stuck in there has left him no chance: three good solid inch bristling with solid wood edge. I keep this brand!
15 Oct 2008
Auditorium in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Gran Canaria Islands CanariesUn "light" wink at the Sydney Opera House?
16 Oct 2008
Tenerife, Gran Canaria Islands CanariesPour remember that sailing is primarily a means of transportation design. "What is beautiful in a sailboat is that nothing is done for aesthetic" (a type of writing has many ac)
16 Oct 2008
Sailboat Mahi Mahi, Marina de Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Iles CanariesJean Claude Soursou, proud marine and crew on board. His wife tried to navigate it Carine deals with navigation ... and night shifts! For his part, he handles all the mechanical part. I see it literally melts to an anchor. I had no idea when we can die of envy for such an object to be unsightly (modern anchors are very ugly). Old friend from work in Figeac Aero, it seems happy with the change in the time of his years sabbatical.
19 Oct 2008
Sailboat Mahi Mahi, Marina de Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Iles is CanariesCarine paraglider, Jean Claude handles of tools for machine tools to a certain piece of aviation plant of my knowledge, they come to us from Figeac, Lot, sailing with their two trolls 5 and 6 years old, Clement the Terrible and Adrien le réveur.Rencontrés "almost" by accident not far from my boat, we arrived at the same time and spend a few lovely days, of aperitifs and late departures each time repulsed. Recur to our memory the ghosts of a past both so close and yet so far. To me, my 15 months in 2007 in Figeac Aero employee responsible for logistics business, how strange life here for ... Jean Claude, known later on, then a colleague at work and learned with pleasure of their project a year off sailing and famille.Carine is the girl of the family secretly slipping her veil she Chouine of kitesurfing not being able to take his paraglider wing. So I the room: it has a sailboat, my bike and after she complained of having no place! Stakeholder in the paragliding club of Cajarc (Lot), we remember the good jaws of the corner: Fanfan, David Alban and other lovers of good food ...
19 Oct 2008
Sailboat Mahi Mahi, Marina de Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Iles CanariesCarine Soursou, proud captain, homemaker and mother. A friend of the paragliding club of Figeac that the fire of life trip. We brown a few days of our stay in Tenerife common, reliving the good manners of the Lot, namely aperitifs on drinks.
19 Oct 2008
Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Santa Cruz Islands CanariesPas no sunset in the month of October to the envy of their friends at work! Ah yes, it's 25 degrees here ... and you? by Google Translate
19 Oct 2008
Zarza Pico, the highest point of the island of Fuerteventura, 807m. Wind, impossible to consider any flight. Advantage of the sea level, it makes a nice walk and quiet monotone verz the top.
20 Oct 2008

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