Volcano Noir: More Art by El Teide
Our favorite volcano of the month paints not only grand landscapes, but also petite, nonfigurative studies. These beautiful bands of dark and light ash are found in a road cut […]
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El Teide, the great impressionist
If volcanoes were artists, they would be impressionists. Volcanoes are dramatic. They rise elegant cones towards the sky, painting the sky red during eruptions. Bright orange rivers of floating lava […]
El Teide: The third tallest mountain in the world – and home to the devil!
The air is cold and thin. I feel it. Walking fast on the path between lava boulders, I need to take a break. A minute to recharge oxygen, another look […]
Malta article now in GEO ExPro!
Malta – a country shape by limestone (and some very old poo) features in Geotourism in the recent issue of GEO ExPro, a magazine for the petroleum exploration community – […]
Gran Canaria: The Miniature Continent
You know the tourist drill: Charter flight. Cerveza. Hotel, all-inclusive. If on budget in Playa del Ingles, which looks like a high-rise-block working class suburb that someone dropped from the […]
The rainbow at the end of the ash: Barranco del Medio, Gran Canaria
– Sorry, honey, we will be here for a while. Enjoy your book while I shoot the rainbow! I grabbed the camera and jumped out of the car. In front […]
Roque Nublo, Gran Canaria: The big finger to the sky
It is a grey day in the mountains. White fog is everywhere, and embraces the pine trees on the steep hills. Drizzle in the air, just enough to make me […]
Haggis eruptions: Edinburgh for geologists
In between writing the reports from Svalbard, I had to do a business trip to Scotland, still part of the Fairly United Queendom. Then, I enjoyed a couple of days […]
Hot water: Wealth from beneath
Iceland. The land of Ice and Fire. Today, more fire than usual, and we geo nerds hope for a long-lasting repetition of the Krafla fires, which played their theatre in […]
Three peaks and a mystery: A geologist walks Corsica
7 AM. Outside the tent, it’s still dark. Only the rays of headlight torches penetrate the morning mist. Stiff bodies crawl out from light, hence too small, tents. With one […]