January 23, 2014

Teide 2014

We had a day off and went up to Teide to look at 

the snow but the most of it had melted away.

 Brito finally walking on snow.

 Making a snowman.

 Me.

Coffee and a typical Canarian Torrija is a must have when it´s snow on Teide.

Brito happy to see snow.

This was the only snow we saw when we were up
 in Finland during Christmas.

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January 16, 2014

Thursday Jan,9, 2014

We are working a lot at the moment and I have because of that not made any new posts for a long time.

These video clips are from the 9Th of January.

We were inside at Lewinskis when the forecast was rain.

It´s quite dark inside which means the video is also dark,

but I hope you can recognise some of the dancers.

THURSDAY JANUARY 9, 2014.

I WILL SING TONIGHT.

IF IT´S RAINING I WILL SING INSIDE LEWINSKIS.

WELCOME.

December 19, 2013

The last night before Christmas at Lewinskis.

It´s now 4.30 am and the taxi will come and take us to the airport in
about 30 minutes.

We are going to Finland and will be back on Tenerife on New years eve.

I will start singing again at Lewinskis January 2, 2014.

Thank you all for the year 2013.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year,

Love, XO,  Susanne

December 5Th, 2013

Vacation

I am on vacation from December 20 to January 2.

I will start singing at Lewinskis on Thursday night, the 2nd of January.


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November 28, 2013

Sunday, November 24, 2013

Thursday, November 21, 2013

This video clip is from the first break.

 Please click on the small arrow if you like to watch it.

It would be fun if we could have a film team in every Thursday so that we could broadcast life from Lewinskis, over the internet. 

So many people say they sit and watch these short videos again and again when they start missing us.

A lot of love to you all, Xo.

 How nice wouldn´t it be if you all could join us from your TV saloon.

You could make a space for dancing in the front of the TV, and be prepared with the drinks you usually drink here, and when you wake up the next day you would have a feeling that you were on Tenerife last night. Wouldn´t that be nice?

We must find somebody who can take this project as a mission. Maybe we can find companies here that like to do advertising so that we can afford it?
Oh, I think my fantasy is going too far now...

But anyhow I like you all to know that we feel sad for everyone who is not able to be here. You are always in our minds and we miss you all. 

I wish from my heart that everybody would be able to become winter swallows.

Tenerife is just a lovely place where to be.

Monday, November 18, 2013

Oh, what a Monday night. Really many people in and party atmosphere.

I think about 90% were Scandinavians and they were dancing the whole night through and had so fun.

What a different and nice night!

 It should have been a "Country music night", which means a lot of oldie goldie country,  but I would rather call it "Dance night" when I picked the songs that fit the Scandinavian dancers.

We also had dancers from England and Germany and maybe even from other countries and they were all dancing. 

Tomorrow it´s a "line dance night" again. I think this concept with different nights for the two different dance styles´ gonna work well.

Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday:  LINE Dance;  Country and Pop.
Monday, Friday, Saturday:  DANCE nights;  Mostly country music

Sunday November 17, 2013

The line dance nights are very packed at the moment.

Please, come early to be sure you will get in and get a table.

Some of the guests arrive about 30 minutes before I start sing and when I start the terrace is very crowded. We had a lot of people leaving the other night when they could not get in and get a table.

November 14, 2013

Please, Keep Up The Dance Etiquette !

Sunday, November 10, 2013.

Oh what a party night we had yesterday! The time just went too quickly

And my camera got crazy (or is it my fault?) because it did not save the video clip of when the dancers were doing a dance train.
We must do it again an other night. I´m sorry.
Now I only have got this video clip of "Mississippi" that was
taken in the beginning of the night.

Anyhow the night went smooth and no wars about the
dance floor like the night before.

To make it clear one more time I like to tell you all that it´s line dance on
Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday and when it´s line dance it means only line dance. That´s because we always have many line dancers in when my audience is about 95% English and many of them do line dancing.

On Monday, Friday  and Saturday we have all kind of dances,
which also means line dance, but if we have so many couple dancers in that they fill the floor, the dance floor is for them in the first place.
If there is space enough everybody can dance but then we must split the floor in two different areas to avoid collisions and accidents; one area for the line dancers and an other area for the couples.
But my experiences tell me this will never work when there always are people who forget about it and after a while they will again jive in full speed into the line dancers. I have seen it so many times!

If you find a space outside the dance floor just be free to dance as much as you like and in whatever style you like. Many do so when they see the dance floor is very crowded and on Lewinski terrace this is just a normal act. You can dance everywhere! He,he! Last year a woman was dancing on the table. Good luck the table did not break! The audience were screaming; The men because she showed her legs, The women because we thought the table will break.

We will keep this system during the winter season when we many times are too crowded, and there is not space enough for everybody to dance at the same time.

Last Thursday we had about 60 line dancers in and only about 40 have room on the floor at the same time. And because it was a line dance night I could not allow other dancers to take the dance floor.

We had about 120 people on the terrace and about 150 visited the restaurant during the night which means about 50% of the audience were line dancers.

I´m so sad I can´t find a bigger dance floor here on the south of Tenerife. If somebody open up a big restaurant  with a real big dance floor in Las Americas I will for sure be interested in singing there  but at the moment  Lewinskis is the best one and I love to sing here, if we just can cope with the situation and avoid wars on the dance floor and be nice to each other. 

Please remember to keep up the normal dance etiquettes when 
you enter the floor.

If you don´t know what dance etiquette is , please, search on 
the internet and learn about it.

Thursday November 7, 2013

Thursday, October 31, 2013

Thursday, October 10, 2013

A Perfect Lunch

 Tapas Special a la Nino. 

You must try this one!

We visited Lewinski yesterday afternoon for a tapas.

Brito asked the chef Nino to make whatever he likes to and this is what we got.

So nice! If you like to try real Canarian tapas go to Lewinskis and give Nino free hands.

He is from Fuerteventura, a real Canarian, who knows how to make them.

 And the mojo sauces are lovely at Lewinskis! 

You will not find these plates in the menu! He just took some of the stuff that was in the kitchen and I was surprised how nice tapas we got! We normally go to the north of the island for Guachinche trips and hope to get something in this style. Now we can have it in Los Cristianos! I´m lucky!!

I´ll soon be back!

Typical Canary ham with honey melon and avocado. Nice!

Changing Colours

Now I´m little bit tired of the look of our home. We must get a change to make it look more fresh.
I started with the balcony and as you can see it has now got a more modern look.
I made it in green before last Christmas (green carpets, green quilts, green flowerpots,green table clothe, beige chair cushions, green swab tools etc) but all green stuff is now out and next week it probably will turn up on one of the balconies in Edificio Rosalia. I will bring it there to see if it fits in. This year our balcony will go grey and the Christmas tree will get white and silver coloured ornaments.

I also throw out the antique looking headboard from the bedroom and bought new fresh sheets but it´s far away from ready. I took out the iron lamps that were on the bedside tables before and bought new white ones, but I would really like to change the whole bedroom so this is only the beginning.

I also have plans to take out almost everything from our kitchen / living room and only decorate it with silver looking stuff + a lot of crystals things + new but old looking pots. It´s depending on if I can find things in the right style.

Anyhow, nobody have to bother start ditching in the trash bin outside here because the decorations that I´m not going to use any more will now be moved out to the different apartments that we help people to let. Some of the things have already got their new locations and if they don´t fit in anywhere they go to the storage waiting for a place where they will fit later on.

I just love to do this. It´s like a hobby and I think I´m the luckiest woman in the world when I have got so many apartments to decorate that I never will get them ready. The only problem is that I can´t put too much stuff in them because the most of the people like to have an almost minimalistic style when they think decorations only get dusty. But in my point of view some of the apartments look like empty garages or has got really ugly decorations and these I will start giving a lift but with a limit of what I put in so that they won´t be difficult to clean.

The most terrible I know is when an apartment has got as an example yellow walls, and a figured table clothe  in green and some other colours, and the chair cushions in light blue and orange and on the top of that a red carpet on the floor and all these things are in the style that you buy on the Chinese shop. Oh I almost get dizzy!

I would really like to make our bedroom in white. 

White antique looking bed and side tables and change all the 

wardrobes to white ones. And take away the white curtains and instead put black and white pictures with white frames on the wall, maybe with a romantic chick lit message painted somewhere on the wall up under the ceiling. But you never know! Maybe I still change my mind?! Anyhow I have bought a new thick but soft quilt from Ikea which means we are not going to be cold this winter.

We are just waiting for the colder nights to arrive so that we can start using it. It will be so cozy!

Thursday Oct. 3, 2013

Loosing Weight

I´m on the diet again, I gained too much while we were in Finland.

I always do when I like to taste everything that I can´t have on Tenerife.

This was my meal last night before I went to work.

The white sauce that looks like whipping cream is fresh cheese with 0% fat.

I eat it almost every day when it fits to the most of plates and you add flavour to it by mixing in a little bit of  herbs, garlic, curry or other spices, etc. Easy to make and tastes good!

Smoked Herrings

On my night off (Wednesday) we made smoked herring.

 First they must be soaked in a salty marinade for about an hour.

 In the oven. We can make 34 herrings on the same time.

 Big fire in under,

Almost ready! Mums!

Sunday 22, 2013

Oh, I´m sorry I´ve got the back of a man in this video clip.

But you can check out who is here line dancing as normal.

New Agenda

NEW AGENDA FROM OCTOBER 2013:

I SING EVERY NIGHT EXCEPT WEDNESDAYS

20.30 - 23.30

Welcome

Angel

I continue buying a lot of clothes and jeweleries

when combining outfits is like a hobby for me. I love it!

Brito took this photo of me one night before I went to work.

He thought I was dressed like an angel. What do you think?

Smoked Salmon

 My new smoke oven.
He,he, Britos feet showed up in the oven! HE,HE!!!
It´s so shiny that it turned out be a mirror and I didn´t see it while I took the photo.
Looks stupid! He,he!

 Oh, Tonight I will probably smell like a smoked sardine at Lewinskis.
The problem is that I had washed my hair before and now it´s impregnated with the smoke smell and I´m not gonna wash it again.

I bought a smoke oven while we were in Finland and brought it to Tenerife + a few bags of the special coarsely sawdust that you put in it too.
It was Daniels idea that I must buy a smoke oven after one of the fishermen here in Los Cristianos had asked him to bring smoked salmon on his return to the island.
So sad Daniel moved to heaven and could not be here today when we took it in use for the first time.

Anyhow, we made salmon and it turned out to be so delicious! Just perfect!!!
Next project will be smoked sardines. We can smoke 30-40 at one time in two different layers inside the oven and we will do that and then give some sardines to Britos family so that they can try it out. If it´s nice weather we will make them the coming weekend.
Oh, such a good idea to bring this oven to the island. Now we can surprise and bless our Canarian friends who normally don´t have this kind of fish. I hope they will like the taste.

First you must put the sawdust in the bottom of the oven.

Then you put the steel plate over the sawdust and then the grid.

We only used one grid today when we only made two fillets of salmon, but

the oven has got two grids.

The heat is coming from two oil rechauds in under the oven.

Can you see the smoke coming out from it?

It´s a very strong smell. I just wonder what the neighbours were thinking?

But we enjoyed it anyhow. Imagine it worked like it should!!!

Like you can see it got the right beautiful color, but I wish you even

 could feel the smell and of course have a taste too.

Fondue

Last night when it was my night off we had a fondue on the balcony.

Thursday Sept.19, 2013

Garachico, Sept 14, 2013

We spent last weekend up in the north of the island at a hotel in Garachico.

We went up there on Saturday morning and came back on Sunday when I was singing Sunday night.

Like many times before I just forgot to take photos for the blogg and I have only got a few to show you.

Garachico is a small harbour town in the north of Tenerife.

December 1645; Heavy rains in the high mountains caused a huge landslide and 

about 100 people were killed and about 40 ships were destroyed.

5 May 1706 ; Volcan Negro exploded and the town was covered in lava.

Our hotel was near the ocean and I took this photo from the terrace.

Brito down on the street waiting for me to get down.

Brito and me.

We had been 4 years together in the beginning of September, so we tried to make the trip like an anniversary celebration and a disconnecting of the bad experiences that we are going through after we lost Daniel. 

And we had a good relaxing time even when it´s not possible to disconnect from what has happened. It will take time before we can start thinking like normal again. He is in our thoughts every minute and we always end up sitting talking about him. It is as difficult for Brito as it is for me when they had a very good relation and were the best friends.

The loose of Daniel was so shocking and tragic that we still have difficult to accept it´s true and it´s like we live in this world and try to take care of the things that must be done, but there is somehow a feeling that we are separated from the reality. It´s difficult to explain but it feels like you are somewhere, don´t know where, let´s say in the nowhere, and you haven´t landed yet so that you can enjoy the life and see what is around you or make any plans for the future. It feels like you live in parentheses.

I sing in the nights and I think it helps. The nights are like a "break" for my brain when I then have to concentrate on the songs and the line dancing etc. But, to be honest, I many times find myself lost on the stage because I loose the concentration and then the lyrics, and sometimes I don´t remember if I´m in the beginning of the song or in the end. Oh, please have patience with me. It seams like my brain is still getting black outs after the shock, but I have heard it will become better, but that it will take time.
But I watched the guests tonight and the most of them looked like they did not notice that I sometimes lost it a little bit.

Oh this is getting very long now and it´s in the middle of the night..I better stop! Sweet dreams!