Peter's Travel Blog

Last night, we returned to our cabin to find rucksacks and clipboards waiting for us… it turns out we are on tour… Needless to say, we were up early this morning, in order to get an early breakfast, in order to be on the quayside for 9am. As it happens, we were queuing to disembark due to a slight delay...

This morning, we arrived in Santa Cruz, on the island of Tenerife. Unfortunately, this was only a short visit, with an all-aboard time of 1:30pm, so our options were relatively limited. After yesterday’s adventure, we decided to take a leisurely walk into town. This meant following a thin blue line from the ship that led us through, and out of,...

Today, we arrived in Las Palmas, on the island of Gran Canaria. Our plans for the day were very simple, and had been hatched right back at the start of the year, when we came this way on our way towards South America. In January, we walked around the bay with Ian Butterfield, and vowed to repeat the walk on...

Today, we arrived in Lanzarote, and we weren’t on tour! The reason this is significant is because on all the other occasions that we’ve been here (three times, I believe), we’ve escorted the excursion to Timanfaya National Park, to see the volcanoes. It’s a great tour, and one of my favourites, but it also means that in all that time,...