Canary Islands, Grand Canaria Island, April 18 – 20, 2024
City of Las Palmas We decided to spend a couple of nights on Grand Canaria Island before embarking on the cruise. We’ve experienced enough flight cancellations/delays in our lives to…
City of Las Palmas We decided to spend a couple of nights on Grand Canaria Island before embarking on the cruise. We’ve experienced enough flight cancellations/delays in our lives to…
Chris and Jamie opted to do a food tour and a tuk tuk tour among other adventures for their last couple of days back in Lisbon. We bid a fond…
On April 25, in 1974, Portuguese Prime Minister Marcello Caetano was overthrown, bringing Portugal's authoritarian Estado Novo (New State) government to an end. It’s referred to as the Carnation Revolution…
The big draw here is the Teide (Tay’ day) volcano. Tenerife means “white mountain” and Teide means “hell”. Teide does get snow. Ron took an excursion to ride a cable…
Today we joined an all day tour to the UNESCO site of Garajonay National Park. Since the Canary Islands are volcanic, and small, the effect of elevation and trade winds…
All the Canary Islands came about through volcanic activity which has made figuring out what can grow a bit of a challenge. On today’s excursion, we visited an aloe vera…
A historic land of hills, fado*, beautiful vistas and architecture, previously unsampled but delicious wine and food and an ever increasing focus on tourism. We lucked out on the weather…