Peter's Travel Blog

Today, we visited our final port; Funchal, in Madeira. Our cunning plan was to take the cable car up to Monte and explore some of the footpaths beyond the church. Since we expected to be out most of the day (all-aboard time was 4:30pm), we made a pack-up at breakfast. I had a bacon roll, Tracey had banana bread, and...

A degree of uncertainty surrounds the question of when we were here last. It seems neither of us was sure that we could remember it. Little bits did keep flooding back, though, as we headed ashore after a relaxing breakfast. We only have one more port stop after today before we’re at sea (and at work) again, so we wanted...

Today, we arrived in Santa Cruz. on the island of Tenerife. On our previous visit, just a few weeks ago, we climbed to the top of a nearby hill, and previous to that, we’ve regularly walked along the promenade to the opera house and back. For this visit, we decided to look for something different to do – something we’ve...

Today, we arrived in Arrecife, on the island of Lanzarote, and parked alongside Fred Olsen’s Balmoral. Since the quayside was quite some distance from the town, a shuttle bus was provided. The last time we visited (on the Marco Polo, way back in 2019), we were berthed much closer, and was able to walk in. Once we’d left the shuttle...

Casablanca was followed by one day at sea. Today, we arrived in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. No other ships were in port so we had the quayside to ourselves. We’ve been here several times before so we’re familiar with it and pretty much had a plan already laid out for the day. Our traditional route is to walk through...