Catching sweets at the carnival procession can be dangerous. Not only are there sweets and other things flying through the air, but if you do manage to catch something it might get snatched out of your hand.
Even if you are only watching the procession go by, there’s no guarantee that your neighbour will not knock you over with their over-sized handbag.
And I’m only talking about the adults!
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Briefkästen scheint es in vielen Variationen von Formen und Größen zu geben. An der Straßenecke sieht man die amtlichen – die gelben stabilen – ähnlich wie in Großbritannien. Und dann sind da noch welche aus Plastik die man oft an der Tür eines Supermarktes sieht.
Da man öfter in Läden mit Postkarten auch Briefmarken kaufen kann, ist es eine logische Ergänzung, dass sie auch ihren eigenen Briefkasten haben. Obwohl nicht viel darüber gesagt wird, wie oft sie geleert werden.
Hier ist eine Auswahl von Briefkästen die wir gesehen haben:
Kennen Sie noch andere Arten von Briefkästen?
Post boxes on Lanzarote seem to come in a variety of shapes and forms. There are official ones that you see on street corners – yellow and solid, much like in the UK. And then there are the plastic ones, often seen at the doors of supermarkets.
Since you can often buy stamps in shops selling postcards, the logical extension of this is for them to have their own post box as well. Although they rarely say on them how often they will be emptied.
Here are a selection of the models that we have seen:
Do you know of any others?
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