TENERIFE: BIBLIOTECA PUBLICA DE LOS CRISTIANOS- ACCESS TO MOVIES , DOCUMENTARIES AND NORWEGIAN LITERATURE

If you are one of the 12 million tourists who visit the Canary Islands each year to get some sun and outdoor life, I recommend you to take a break from the sun- bathing and  pay the public library on Tenerife a visit. Centro Cultural is a nice building situated at Los Cristianos, Costa Adeje. My interest for the library was not the collection of Spanish books but the collections of movies and documentaries. The library is a nice place to spend some hours away from the beaches, the shops and  tourists. The librarian on duty the very day I visited the library was very proud of the gift of books given to the library. I was surprised to see books of  Norwegian authors like Kjartan Fløgstad, Knut Hamsun, Herbjørg Wassmo and Per Petterson. The books were all translated into Spanish. No pay for the lending of the movies. Free access to movies!The Spanish titles of the Norwegian books are: Kjartan Fløgstad: Paraiso en la tierra, Knut Hamsun: Victoria, Herbjørg Wassmo: La habitacion muda and Per Petterson: Salir a robar caballos. Norwegian tourists who want to stay for some months on the island of Tenerife should take lessions in Spanish and read the Norwegian books and later on Spanish literature too. If you do hiking in the mountain close to Los Cristianos, you get a new eduction in Norwegian dialects only. Therefore you go to the public library, forget your Norwegian language for a while , read Spanish and have a good time. For your information only: The number of inhabitants of Tenerife is about 906,854. The capital is Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Have a good time and view the films if possible- all in Spanish.