Que faites-vous pendant les vacances de Noël?

Que faites-vous pendant les vacances de Noël? Le chat, par exemple, est allé à Tenerife. //
What are you doing during the Christmas holidays? The cat, for example, went to Tenerife.

There are no classes now (well, obviously), but our teacher sent us another audio file today. It is titled “Que faites-vous pendant les fêtes?” (What are you doing during the holidays?).

Well, I figure it is a perfect pretext (as if I need any) to show you the pic above.

We went to Tenerife for a few days. There, we visited a pretty university town of La Laguna (full name San Cristóbal de La Laguna). That is, its central historical part is pretty; the outskirts are most certainly not, plus it is now merged with Santa Cruz de Tenefire into one (generally unappealing) conglomerate.

But the center indeed is cute. It has many historic buildings, one of them housing the tourist information office.

This time, we saw an open wooden door which we didn’t notice before. We went in and found ourselves inside a small museum. The entrance was free and the building looks interesting enough in itself, but apart from that, upstairs there is the permanent collection of Cristino de Vera, contemporary Canarian painter I’ve never heard of. His style is very minimalist; the choice of subject matter also seems to be quite limited. One of the rooms was entirely dedicated to black and white windowsill still-lives, mostly consisting of a few (maximum three) bowls and one skull.

Mind you, I do not wish to sound disparaging — we liked it a lot.

So. The pic above is a sort of tribute, based on his Ventana, dos tazas y Teide II.

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