Vacation

We are going to have our winter vacation 8-19th of December.
It's a period of 12 days.
We will also be off Christmas eve, Christmas day and New Years eve and New Years day.

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Shopping Next

Inside Alcampo.

I'll go to bed soon because today we'll have to get up early when we have plans to go to Alcampo and Ikea for shopping.
It's Friday and our day off again.

Clas is going to look for some more technology stuff, like always, and I will look for hair curling tongues.

The day before yesterday I bought a new pair of white boots again and now I have decided to just turn a blind eye to all shoes and boots during the shopping tour tomorrow.
I have too many now and I don't know where to store them all.

Instead I'll look for some nice clothes and Clas needs a lot of clothes too if I just can get him into the dressing rooms.
He,he! I will for sure, if it's needed, be womanly cunning to get him in there!
He don't really like to try on many clothes and thinks there is not space enough in these small rooms. You know, he is a big and tall guy and when he gets in there he can't hardly move.
But I always find a lot of pieces for him so I'll tell you the end later...
Please, wish us a good luck.

When we get back home in the night we'll have a dinner somewhere in Los Cristianos and later we'll probably end up at the Scandibar which has turned out to be like our second home.

Have a nice Friday!

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Dance Nights and Line Dance Nights

We are still crowded in the nights.
We played only country dance music last night and people were dancing the whole night through. It was a really lovely night.

Wednesdays and Saturdays have turned out to be more like Scandinavian nights and then we only play the music they can dance to and almost no line dances at all.
We call these nights; Dance Nights and the music also fits well to the couple line dancers if they know how to dance to a different song with the same beat.

For Clas and me it's almost like playing two different repertoires.
Some songs are the same but the line dancers also dance to some of the latest pop songs today and because of that we also play some pop music on the line dance nights.

Many of the Scandinavians like to dance and when we have the line dance nights there is not space enough for both dance styles even when the music many times fits all.
Because of that we have had to alternate the nights between Dance nights and Line dance nights.

Tomorrow (Thursday) it's only going to be line dance instead.
We are expecting a lot of dancers and it will be such a lovely night again.
We have a lot of line dancers on Tuesdays and Thursdays and then we only play the dances that they know.
Sundays we play a mix of line dance and normal dance depending on the audience.

If you are on Tenerife now and like to visit us please get in early to be sure you get a table.
Many nights there are guests who don't get in and we feel so sorry for that but can't help it.
La Karina has only room for about 200 guests and because of that it's impossible to get everybody in.
However, it can be good waiting in the queue when some of the guests sometimes leave earlier.

Please, click on the arrow to watch the video clip below that was made some nights ago when we had a dance night at La Karina.

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My Favorite Outfit

I got a minor shock when we got home tonight.
We ordered a pizza, at La Karina, that we would share on the balcony as a night snack when we got home.
While we went home by taxi I kept it in the lap.
Later when we finally were at home and I had a look in the mirror I saw that I had got a lot of oil and tomato sauce from it all the way from the waist down to the skirt hem.
It was an orange colored sauce on all the three pieces; the skirt, the top and the glittery sweater.

I almost got panic because the glittery white outfit that I had on tonight is one of my favorite outfits and I know it will be difficult to find a new similar if it would be destroyed.
Every time I wear it people come up to the stage and tell me how beautiful it is and I can't do anything else than agree when I like it so much.

I took it of immediately and sprayed 'Vanish' on it and praise God it helped and it's now hanging white and clean out on the line and I can breathe out.

The miracle detergent.

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Sushi

We had a little sushi party on the balcony when we came home from work tonight.
I love sushi! It's both healthy and delicious.
I dip the pieces in Teriyaki sauce instead of in the Soya sauce when I think that tastes better.
Now I'll go to bed...Good Night!

The Sushi comes from restaurant Fujiyama in Los Cristianos.
Our neighbor who works there made it for us.

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Mingle photo

Here's a mingle photo from a party we visited recently.

Me, Javier (the owner of La Karina) and Clas.

Late Night

It almost feels like we are off all the time now when we only play 5 nights a week.
We play two nights - have one night off - play three nights - have one night off.

Last night off (it was Monday) we spend being together with the Scandinavians + some English people at the Scandibar.
I got home about 5 o' clock in the morning and fell to sleep about 6.30.
Oh, what a night!!!

We often visit this bar when we have a night off and I would like to invite, everybody who wants, to pay a visit here while you are on Tenerife.
Just don't forget to try the Scandinavian open sandwiches if you go there.
They are really lovely to have for breakfast or lunch.

I took this picture a couple of minutes before we went out.

More Jam

I have made one more video clip from our fondue and
jam night that we had on our balcony last Friday.
The old good country songs and hits brought a cozy atmosphere and we all enjoyed it and sang together even
when we had not heard some of the songs for many years.
Please, keep in mind that everything on
the video clip is just improvisation.


Presentation of the contributors:

Jan Egil and Tove from Norway.
They visit Tenerife 4-5 times every year.
Jan Egil sings and plays guitar in a country band in Norway.

Carina and Lasse from Sweden.
They live here on Tenerife in the winter time and
perform at the Scandinavian church in Puerto Colon and lead
"Allsången" at the Scandibar on Saturday afternoons.

Christer and Anneli from Sweden.
They visit Tenerife 1-2 times a year.
Christer was guitarist in the famous Swedish dance band called
Sven Eriks in the seventies.

Clas and me.
Have a country venue at restaurant La Karina in Las Americas
every night except Mondays and Fridays.

Please, click on the arrow to watch it.

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The Swedish Bloggers

I will very soon go to bed.
I have, since we came home from work, been reading the Swedish blogs that I read daily.
It was a lot to read when I haven't been visiting them for a couple of days.

I read 4 of the Swedish blogs almost every day.
It's Blondinbella, Storstadspojken, Mogi and Fogi.
3 girls and one boy.
If you are from Sweden you probably know about these blogs.
Blondinbella and Storstadspojken are a couple and they live together in Stockholm.

I have followed Blondinbella for about 2 years, Storstadspojken since he started about 1,5 years ago, Mogi for about 1/2 a year and Fogi since she won the three blog awards in Sweden a couple of months ago.

Blogging is a real big thing in Sweden and some of the biggest blogs are owned by young girls under the age of 20.
The big blog owners have got a lot of power.
Some of them blog about fashion and when they show what they have bought on the blog the shops will soon run out of these items.
They become like Style and fashion tellers and many companies send them products for free and hope they will like them and blog about them.

You find a lot of advertising on some of the big blogs and the owners earn a lot of money by selling advertising space to different companies.
They also get a lot of invitations to parties where the rich and famous are and they are often exposed in the media. Some of the bloggers have become quite famous.

Sweden is like a forerunner when it comes to the blogging and to make a living out of it.
Some of the real big blogs have 600.000-700.000 visitors per week.
These bloggers work fulltime with their blogs and they often make 4-7 posts per day.
They have in some cases more power to make influence than the normal media in the country.

My little blog is as little as a drop in a sea and I have never earned a cent on it so far.
I just blog for fun and it has almost become a lifestyle.
I like to write and make posts but last spring I started feeling a little bit fed up when I read my own blog and discovered it was mostly about what we eat and what I shop.
He, he! It looked for sure like we are not doing anything else than eat and shop and I can pretty well understand why some people got problem with it and started feeling ill when they saw all the plates.


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The Secret Party

Okay! I will now reveal what the secret party was all about.
This video clip will for sure be the "worse" that ever have been published on my blog.
Warning!!!! Don't watch it if you are religious or a sensitive person!

A lady we know had birthday yesterday.
After the work we were invited to a private birthday party on the second floor of restaurant Liquid. We were about 25-30 people.

One of the presents she got was a stripper and you'll see some of his show in the video clip below.
He took everything off!
Some of the guests almost turned hysterical.

Later when we were ready to go home his strings were still laying on one of the steps leading down from the second floor.
Maybe he left them there as a business card or something?
I was joking and told one of the restaurant owners to take them and hang them up as a trophy on the wall at the restaurant, but then a young lady just showed up and swiped them away.

Oh my dear, I think some of our friends maybe will become quite shocked if they watch this.
They will think we are living in Sodom or Gomorrah....but it's only Spain!
The culture here is a little bit different from the culture we have up in Scandinavia.
Here the most of everything has to be like a show and without a real shocking show everything is like nothing.

I heard about a lady in Sweden who got a Chippendale stripper on her birthday last year. She felt so put on shame that she left the party and went home.
Here they just think it's a fun thing, like it seams, and everybody just look at it as a show.
It's a big difference between the cultures.

But to be honest with you... Now I get a thought in my mind!
The Finnish men also show off everything! They sometimes run naked out from the sauna and roll in the snow or jump into the sea, and some even do it while it's daylight!

Which one do you think is worse?
A well trained tanned body exposed in twilight or a pale Finnish behind in daylight?

Please, click on the arrow if you have decided to watch the video clip.

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Fondue Party and Jam

It was our night off yesterday and we invited some of our musical friends to a fondue and jam party on our balcony.

Please, click on the arrow if you like to watch the video clip.

The Guests

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My New Boots

Here is a photo of the boots I bought.

Please, don't think that I buy too many boots!
I just have a good luck now when I find many...
Later it can be months when I don't buy any at all.
You just have to buy when you have got the luck to find some...
That's how it is!
It's also time to renew my boot fleet when many pairs have
been used many times.

I have an other pair of the same boots but they are beige.
These boots are very comfortable when you do line dancing.
That's why I bought an other pair in this white color.


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Linedance night at La Karina

We are still crowded in the nights.
Over 200 people visited us during the last night and
it was a lot of people out on the street.
The dance floor turned out to be too small again and
some guests complained about it.
We are sorry and hope to find a bigger
floor somewhere in the future.
Many of the songs we play fit both the line dancers and the normal dancers and we wish there would be space enough for everybody in the same time.

The problem with Tenerife is that the most of the restaurants
have very small dance floors and it's not easy to find a
restaurant that is big enough.

Shopping

I was out shopping again yesterday.
I bought, among other things, a nice pair of white boots + some glitter for my nails, underwear and a lot of silk stockings etc.

Tomorrow will be a busy day.
I have to clean our home and plan for the fondue party we are going to have here with some of our friends on Friday night when we are off.
We'll be 8 people and that means we'll need two fondue pots.
Some of the guests are musicians and they will bring their instruments so that we can jam together after the dinner.

I'll show you the boots later. It's too late to start photographing now when I must go to bed to be fit for fight tomorrow.

We are also invited to an other party Saturday night.
We'll first play like normal at La Karina when this party starts some time after 00.30 in the night.
What it's all about is a secret right now but I will tell you later.
It feels a little bit frightful when I think about it and I hope it will not end up being too much.
I can't tell you anything more right now but I can tell you it will be a little bit chocking what it's all about.

Good Night!
Have a nice Thursday!

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La Karina Last Night

Please, click on the arrow to watch the video clip.

Sweet Dreams

He,he! He looks like he is sleeping!
Don't you think so?

New Template

Photo Slide Show

I also tried to learn how to make an album with a collection of photos where you can click to get next photo and next photo...
But, like you see, it turned out to be like a photo video.

Hmmm..I'll figure it out later...

Photo Collage

Today I have learned how to make photo collages.

I decided to make a collage of some of my boots.

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La Karina 06.10.2009

We are sorry so many people couldn't get in last night.
It was about a hundred of guests during the night, who
had to leave when they couldn't get in.

To be sure you get in we recommend you to
arrive at least before 8 o'clock.
To be sure you'll get a good table out on the terrace come 7.30.

We made a bigger dance floor yesterday but
it was sometimes over packed.
It's lovely to play when it's so many guests and we hope we will continue to be crowded til the beginning of December when we are going for a short vacation.

Leon Reingard, a line dance teacher from Denmark, taught us a linedance last night.
Please, click on the arrow to watch it.

To watch an other video clip from the same night, please, click here.

La Karina last night

Many line dancers visited us last night at La Karina.
A group of 30 people from Denmark is here on Tenerife now.
They have line dance classes in the daytime at the hotel and some times they visit us in the nights to practice what they have learned.
We also had many line dancers from Germany and Britain last night and the dance floor was crowded.

Please, click on the arrow to watch the video clip.

I have also made an other video clip on our Tenerife Country blog.
Please, click here to watch it.

Halloween at La Karina

It was Halloween last night and a line dance group called 'De Rockers' from Belgium visited us at La Karina. They are very good dancers and their input gave a good "spice" to our show.
We were crowded again last night and it was so fun to play.

I have published one more video clip on our Tenerife Country blog.
Please, click here to watch it.

Thanx to
Benny, Chris, Guy and Marleen.

The Monkey Park

It was our day off yesterday and in the morning we went with Carina, Hugo and Johnny to The Monkey Park. Johnny is the youngest brother of Clas, and they are now visiting us on Tenerife.

Later in the night we had a fondue party on our balcony.

Hugo, Johnny and Carina.


Clas.


Me.


This monkey stole the "monkey-candy-bag" from Hugo.


An iguana.


We went inside the cages to be with the monkeys and I have made a video clip to show you how cute they are.
The Pippi Longstocking monkeys are my favorite
animals next after cats.
I like them so much and I would probably get one if it was allowed.
But, it's maybe not possible to get them house-trained and then it would cause us a lot of problem.

Please, click on the arrow to watch the video clip.

27.000 Visitors

Thank you so much for visiting my blog.
It's amazing the visitors counter has passed 27.000.

Our schedule at La Karina has changed:

Every Night 8.00 - 11.00.

I recommend you to come early to be sure you'll get a table.

No control !

We have never kept our guests under control telling them they are not allowed to visit any other restaurants while they are on Tenerife.
Our policy has always been that everybody is free to go wherever they want.
Many visit us every night while they are on the island, but we have never told anybody that they have to do so. The tourists decide themselves where they are going to spend the nights.

We have many times been surprised when people who have stayed here for two or three weeks have visited us every single night.
If I myself was a tourist I would probably visit many different venues to get some variation, but we have been told that they like Country and Western music and because of that they like to visit us every night.

An other thing is also that many people in a restaurant bring more people in.
Who like to sit a whole night alone in an empty restaurant?
It's more fun to be where people are because there is a lot of things going on.
La Karina also have good food and many come there for dinner.
Not everybody comes there because of us or our music!

We are happy to be so crowded every night but it's not our fault.
I wish everybody a good business and it's not fun when people start blaming us.
Hopefully it soon will be better times for everybody.

A little "fox" visited us at La Karina last night.
It went around in the restaurant trying to swipe some of our guests to an other venue.
The impudence has no limit on Tenerife!
We were warned about it and because of that we were more on the alert than normal and could watch it from the stage.
We decided to not do anything about it this time. People are desperate and do whatever to get their businesses running.

I hardly couldn't sleep last night.
I was just laying in bed thinking about everything.
It's so much going on now and I am not used to live in this kind of turbulence.

I don't really know who to trust anymore.
People who you think are nice friends can suddenly show an other face behind your back.
I met a manager from an other restaurant on the street some days ago. This man has always been so happy talking to us and when I said hello to him he was almost hissing like a cat.
He also thinks we are a treat now and thinks we take all the tourists from him.

We moved down to Tenerife only to sing and play Country music, that we like, and now all this happens to us.
Enviousness is an evil illness. It obliterates the human sense.

La Karina 15.10.2009

I made a video clip last night while many of our guests were
dancing like in a train all around the restaurant.
I promised to publish it as soon as I got home but
something went wrong and there was only about
3 seconds recorded of the whole dance in my camera.
I'm so sorry!
Instead I found this video clip in the camera and decided to publish it.
I'm so sad now.
It would have been so fun to also have the video clip from
the last night on the blog.

El Molino Blanco

Oh, what a nice night we had yesterday!
Tove and Jan Egil from Norway invited us to have dinner at
El Molino Blanco.
It was the first time we visited this restaurant and
the meal was just excellent.
I recommend you all to pay a visit while you are on Tenerife.
The atmosphere is very relaxing and cozy and people like
Madonna and Celin Dion have, among other celebrities,
been eating here before.
This was absolutely the best night we have had for a long time.
I'm still exited!

Jan Egil, Tove, Me and Clas.

Nice fillet steak filled with cheese, potato and
sauce made of Karl-Johan fungus. Lovely!

Jan Egil showed his artistic talent and
took a photo of me through his wineglass.

Me and Tove waiting for the desert out in the garden.