Visiting
Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands/Carlos Pueblo
Tenerife,
Canary Islands was the one of the lovely islands which I got the
opportunity to
visit during my life time. The ship disembarked at the port
of Santa
Cruz de Tenerife early in the morning with two other huge ocean
liners on
the piers. After passing through a park next to the pier, I walked
up on a main
street along with a light rail track to a pretty army barrack,
then turned
right toward a garden park and came down to the ship, ya esta,
means that is
it.
I found
several flamboyant trees familiar to me ever since my childhood,
Delonix or
Royal Poinciana while we call it the Phoenix tree in Chinese, with
blood red
flowers, bean family and fern-like leaves. It starts to blossom during
early summer
when students graduate from school and are ready for local or
national
entrance examinations. There were so many prose in spoken Chinese
literature
of the youth to describe the affairs of their graduation and the expection
of the
examination. I ate the bean, made a small net with the leaf frame without
leave to
play and couldn’t forgot the red flowers. I found the trees in Oahu Island
at Hawaii and
made sure to visit the same tree right in front of an icy grocery a
little bit
south of the north shore coast. Three distinguished architecture sounding
the park are
Plaza Espana with a big cross, Iglesia Concepcion the cathedral, and
un Museo a
museum.
I entered to
the city center uphill along with an electrical bus line above. All kinds of
stores are on
both sides of the street. The street design are very organized likes many
boxes all
goes up or across squarely. At a streets corner park, I noticed a line of
colorful
flags
hanging building which I supposed as the famous Spanish Army barrack in
Tenerife.
Francisco
Franco of the Spanish civil war and later dictator was stationed here before
his returning
to southern Spain and rebelled. Spanish Empire after 1492, colonized a big
chunk of the
new world; however, the former colony gradually departed the empire,
South
America after 18 century and the Spanish American War of 1905, Spanish lost
almost
everywhere
and came to Canary Islands and Tenerife and Franco of which both played a role
in current
day Spain.
I walked
back to the ship early in the afternoon and was back to my normal mood of
cruise
travel instead
of the great stress of land trip in Europe and Turkey for the past 5 weeks.
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