17 Interesting Facts About The Canary Islands

Everything Everywhere ^ | 3-28-2019

[SunkenCiv]

Beware the Dog, from the Roman Empire:

http://www.google.com/search?q=beware+the+dog+mosaic+in+pompeii&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&tbm=isch

[Grimmy]

Whistling language of the Canary Islands.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgEmSb0cKBg

And possibly related to...

Whistling language in Turkey.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQf38Ybo1IY

Mexico
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eliANcZdkw

The Pyrenees Mountains.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AymnVY_xXPg

I wonder if there wasn’t a whistling language in wide spread use in Europe and the mid east with lots of local dialects in the distant past, maybe pre-dating the Indo-Euro invasion.

[NativeSon]

All peppers, genus capsicum, originated in the Americas.

[Conan the Librarian]

We’re planning on stopping in the Canary isles on the way back from Europe after we sail our boat there in a few years.

I want to visit the astronomical observatory there.

[blam]

"We’re planning on stopping in the Canary isles on the way back from Europe after we sail our boat there in a few years."

Have a nice trip. And, post to us here at FR when you set sail.