Of course translation is not a simple task, so when
GayPrideMaspalomas.com lead with the headline "About 50,000 people is concentrated in the gay pride demonstration RIDE IN MASPALOMAS 2010" we can see a few things that might be improved a little, no problem.
However the claimed numbers leave us puzzled, what is "About 50,000"?
For anyone who has been to football matches or regular gatherings of large crowds you tend to get an ability to estimate numbers reasonably well.
A much more accurate estimate is less than 25,000 in total, including people looking out of their apartments along the three streets along which the parade passes.
Call it what you like , Artistic license, gross exaggeration, or "promotional publicity", whatever happened to telling it like it is?
Congratulations to all who participated, iot was a truly wonderful event and the culmination of many months planning anf hard work from those who actually took part
We had two reporters who between them accumulated over 26GB of pictures and video on the parade day covering the entire twelve hours from midday to midnight on Saturday May 9th 2010.
Together with a few snaps from on-lookers, and pictures of hundreds of others taking their own pictures the publicity splash of colour across the Web in the next few days and weeks will be a feast for the eyes and heart..
Maspalomas Gay pride shows that despite all the problems affecting Air travel across Europe in the last few weeks and the lack of pennies in peoples pockets this part of the world knows how to celebrate in the most vibrant, flamboyant colourful way that makes hundreds of thousands wish they could have been part of this annual very special Gay May Day.