Category: South America

Today, we stopped off for a half-day visit to Praia, in Cape Verdi. Being as this was the first time we’ve been here, we were quite keen to check the town out, despite the fact that time was relatively short. All-aboard time was 2pm, and I had a class down in the programme for 2:30, so we had to be...

Today, at around 8 o’clock this morning, we arrived in Mindelo, on the island of St Vincent, in the Cape Verde Islands. The walk into town from the cruise quay, took about 20 minutes, and it was hot. The first time we came to Mindelo was in 2011. Over the years, we’ve been back on about six or seven further...

Just after lunchtime today, we arrived in Las Palmas, on the island of Gran Canaria. The morning had been spent blog-writing and dealing with general correspondence in Scott’s Bar, and attending a talk on composition by our resident photography lecturer, Ian Butterfield. After lunch, we headed out for a wander. Since both of us were suffering with stiff limbs from...