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Saturday, 31 December 2022

Twelve secrets to welcome in the New Year

Do you want to know how to receive 2023 in the best way? Do you wish prosperity for the New Year 2023? 

We knew about wearing red underwear and eating the twelve Uvas de la Suerte ("lucky" grapes), but this is next level. All superstitious nonsense, of course, but any help is probably welcome ...

1. Lentils

So that you do not lack food and luck. Ten minutes before midnight, take a handful of lentils and put them in your pockets and purse and keep some in your right hand.

2. Underwear

Yellow: If you want to be very lucky during the year.

Red: If you want to find true love and passion in your life.

Green: To give strength to your health.

3. Wristband:

Buy a red ribbon to attract lasting love and passion into your life and tie it around your left wrist into a bracelet. You can also buy a pink one and put it with the red one, this will help you find unconditional and pure love.

4. Suitcase:

If you want to travel during the year, take a big suitcase, you don't need to put clothes in it, just run out at 12:15 and go around the block from your house. The longer the turn, the farther you'll go.

5. Candles:

Gold: To attract money and abundance into your life.

Red: To fan the flame of love.

Pink: To find an ideal love in your life.

Blue: To achieve your professional goals or change jobs.

Green: For health.

Yellow: To attract business.

White: To heal any relationship or simply acquire peace.

Purple: To transmute the negative into positive and remove all the bad energies from your life.

6. Red Apple:

Write around it: "I (your full name) want to find a love that respects me, loves me and makes me happy. Likewise, that I can make that person happy and love and respect him." Pour a little honey around it and finally, a little cinnamon powder, leave it on a plate in your room or wherever you want for seven days. 

7. Bath:

With red and pink rose petals and honey, for love.

With sea salt to ward off envy and cleanse you.

With chamomile to heal the soul.

With sugar and eucalyptus to forgive.

8. Silver:

Have in your right pocket, 200 euros or 100. (And if you're poor?)

9. Luck and love:

When you greet the new year, greet someone of the opposite sex first so that you don't lack love. If you can, invite a trusted man who is not from the family, at 12 o'clock to add a touch of luck to everyone's life.

10. The 12 grapes:

When eating the 12 grapes and making your wishes for the New Year, learn to ask from the soul and without demanding, and you will see how the universe fulfils your wishes.

11. A glass of champagne:

Put a gold ring in the glass. Drink the drink (do we need a warning here to take care not to swallow the ring?) and then take the ring out and put it on and don't take it off if possible during the year.

12. For your house:

In the corners of your house put lemons cut into four, which will remove envy and bad energy. Sprinkle a few coins under the beds, buy a beautiful aloe vera and put it at the entrance; those will bring you good luck.

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Wednesday, 28 December 2022

Tenerife Rally Calendar 2023

Tenerife Rally Calendar 2023

The Inter-island Automobile Federation of Santa Cruz de Tenerife has prepared the Tenerife Rally Calendar 2023 (still to be approved in the General Assembly, in addition to adapting some dates to the regional programming). 

The asphalt rallies section contemplates the same events as 2022, although with some changes in dates and the inclusion of the Mini-Rally Santiago del Teide-Guía de Isora, on December 9. Once again the season opens on April 14-15, with the Orvecame-Norte Rally; Villa de Granadilla remains in the month of June 16-17 and the date for Villa de Adeje is proposed for June 30-July 1, as a result of its possible inclusion in the CERA (Copa de Spain of Rallies on asphalt). The City of La Laguna Rally is to be held on the last weekend of July 28-29.

The Historic Tenerife Rally, goes from the first week of May last season, to the month of October 27 and 28, two weeks after Isla Tenerife on October 13-14, which means a considerable organizational effort for CD Rallyten Sport.

The Rallyesprint modality maintains the two usual events: Atogo, September 29-30 and La Gomera, November 10-11. Rallyesprint Arico has been added on 9 Sep.

The opening of the hillclimb calendar is El Boquerón, scheduled for March 25. Palo Blanco, goes to the summer month of July 7 and 8 while the rest of the climbs maintain these dates: Guía de Isora, June 2-3; Los Loros, September 22-23; Tamaimo, October 6-7; San Miguel, Oct 21; Icod-La Guancha, November 3-4; and Arona-La Escalona, November 24-25. The non-inclusion of the Güímar Hillclimb, stands out, possibly due to its non-celebration in 2022 due to the illness of Juan Carlos Batista, president of the Valle de Güímar Squad.

Thursday, 1 December 2022

Tenerife in December 2022

Christmas Shopping on the Calle del Castillo (Santa Cruz de Tenerife)

There are three national public holidays this month: Tuesday, 6 December for the Día de la Constitución Española (Spanish Constitution); Thursday, 8 December for Inmaculada Concepción (Immaculate Conception) and Monday, 26 December, a day in lieu, as Navidad (Christmas Day) falls on Sunday.

As in previous years, there are no municipal holidays in December.

This year, it's confirmed that "Normal" Christmas returns to Santa Cruz with more events, markets and lights. The Christmas period started on November 23 (one day before the lights switch on); the market returns to the traditional space of the Alameda del Duque Santa Elena; The Gastromercadillo will also display its culinary offer in the Plaza de España, from December 16 to January 8, with a program of its own musical activities to liven up the various days.

December 21, 2022 marks the 40th Anniversary of the Parlamento de Canarias (Parliament of the Canary Islands). On December 21, 1982, the the first plenary session of the Provisional Parliament was held, after a recently released Statute of Autonomy of the Canary Islands. It has been four decades that have transformed the social, political, economic and cultural life of the islands.

The holiday period kicks off proper with the Spanish Christmas Lottery, which is drawn on 22 December. Various streets of the capital will host the Lo Divino Tour, a musical offering by more than 30 folk groups from the municipality, which from 7:00 p.m. on December 23 will perform Christmas carols and melodies.

In the evening of Christmas Day, the annual Christmas Day Concert will be given by the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra in the Port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. 

On 28 December, beware of El Día de Los Santos Inocentes (Day of the Innocent Saints), the Spanish equivalent of April Fool's Day.

And that brings us to the end of the year, when, in Santa Cruz, the New Year's Eve party will once more be back in the Plaza de La Candelaria.

Arona Council will celebrate in style the farewell to 2022 and welcome 2023 with the 'Great New Year's Eve Party', which returns after a two-year hiatus and will be held on Saturday 31 Dec in the surroundings of the Cultural Centre in Los Cristianos.

Programa Navidad 2022-2023