As if from a tale by Jules Verne

La Gomera is the most beautiful island of the Canary Islands. The volcanic island, with its bizarrely shaped rocks of cooled lava, is one of the most impressive formations in the Atlantic Ocean. Those who live here can say to have arrived at least in an antechamber of paradise at the southern tip of Europe.

Only 40 km away from the main island of the Canary Islands, Tenerife, and approximately at the height of the Moroccan city (Moroccan Western Sahara) Tarfaya, La Gomera offers ideal climatic conditions.  

After the end of Franco, a lot has changed here, although Gomera was already an insider tip in the times of the Spanish despot. At that time the hippies reviled by Madrid and the backpackers came to the island. From approximately 1970, more Europeans came to the island. Gomera is already a little, no very much Africa, not only when the Kalima (wind from the Sahara) comes. Also, the mentality has adapted to the African continent. 

The splendour of nature is unique. Under palm trees on the European mainland already extinct butterfly species fly. In the cool, almost fairytale forest further up, mountain streams flow like in the Alps. The fauna and flora are of unique beauty, especially in the Garajonay National Park. Moss-covered trees, which seem to be from a novel by Jules Verne. It is also the loneliness of some houses that makes the magic. The terraces are used for productive agriculture. 

The capital San Sebastián de La Gomera is located in one of these bays. The roads are relatively right, also in the hinterland and the valleys. Just come with us if you can't take a holiday at the moment: 

View to the sea south near Garajonay, hjk/mcvth/kasaan media, 2020

Cedro, hjk/mcvth/kasaan media, 2020

Las Hayas, hjk/mcvth/kasaan media, 2020

Casamatte in the rocks near La Dama,hjk/mcvth/kasaan media, 2020

A typical farm in the south of Garajonay National Park, watch out for the prickly pear cactus, hjk/mcvth/kasaan media, 2020

Marina La Gomera, hjk/mcvth, 2020

Agriculture in terraces and valleys, mostly tomatoes and potatoes, in the background the Teide on Tenerife, hjk/mcvth, kasaan media, 2020

Palm trees and sheep and goat farming on a small farm south of the national park, hjk/mcvth, kasaan media, 2020

Mercedes Benz, W124, 1978, hjk/mcvth, 2020

These vehicles can be found all over the island; one could almost assume that they are to be exploited thereby the general public. You can find cars, real oldtimers, for which a lot of money is paid in the rest of Europe, which do not exist anymore and which are slowly becoming rare here on the island.

Mercedes Benz, W124,1978, hjk/mcvth, 2020

Church of the Assumption in San Sebastián de la Gomera, hjk/mcvth,kasaan media, 2020

An abandoned house at the southern end of Garajonay National Park, hjk/mcvth,kasaan media, 2020

Surf near Valle Gran Rey, hjk/mcvth, kasaan media, 2020

  Washed up a shipwreck, southern coast, hjk/mcvth, 2020

Washed up a shipwreck, southern coast, hjk/mcvth, 2020

Today 75 years ago, the Buchenwald concentration camp was liberated.

Indescribable horror was revealed to the soldiers who invaded the camp. 

Those who cannot understand the horror should not deny it. 

What happened at the site near Weimar was part of the greatest crime in human history. 

Let us remember the victims of National Socialism. Resist the beginnings!

The access road to the crematorium, kasaan media, 2020

Retained buildings of the former disinfection and effects chamber, kasaan media, 2020

Information sign, kasaan media, 2020

Entrance gate with the cynical saying: Jedem das Seine, kasaan media, 2020

View of the site, kasaan media, 2020

Lost Civilization

If you are looking for clear traces of civilization, it is writing or parts of tools that were once left behind. This image is again from the rover Curiosity, which has been searching for years on Mars for traces of extraterrestrial life.

These signs can no longer be an isolated case.

Up to now, NASA expected a lot from it, and dismissed every discovery, now countless inconsistencies, as illusions.

A video now shows the strange characters that were found elsewhere on the red planet.

Another screenshot, in the same context:

Characters on Marsdlr, 2018  

Photo:dlr

update 10.04.2020 

Anti-Corona products are now also sold under countless names. These do not exist. There is also no vaccination up to now. There is no effective medicine against the current epidemic - except social distancing. The drugs offered under many trade names can be ineffective or in the worst-case toxic. Hands off dubious offers of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine. Probably these drugs come from pharmacies in China, which nobody controls. 

Less is more

Thousands of spam messages from a dubious pharmacy are currently flooding the net. It's just before Christmas again and the spammers want to sell their products.

The offers are dubious like the registration number. Here, drugs are offered that probably do not even deserve the title drug.

In the offer Viagra and other potency drugs dubious offers, for which one does not need a prescription or a doctor.

International associations warn against pharmacies that do not have any approval or customer service. Neither are the drugs counterfeit, utterly ineffective or dangerous.

Most of the products on offer are produced in factories whose condition does not meet international standards. In the worst case, taking "drugs" can lead to death. Most of the time, the customers are just disappointed, but the pharmacy's affiliates are not. They send thousands of spams a day to the comment area of numerous companies to get at least one message through once.

The name of the pharmacy is changed if too many customers complain about the ineffectiveness of the colourful pills.

In Europe, there are enough pharmacies, also in online trade, which you can visit without having to fear health problems.

The rule is hands-off spammers from the pharmaceutical sector!