Lanzarote and La Palma, Canary Islands

April 18-19, 2023

Our last ports of call, before we headed across to Atlantic Ocean to Fort Lauderdale, were two very different islands. We hadn’t been able to book and shore excursions for either one. They had been sold out for a long time.

The photo above is the view from our balcony in Lanzarote. We were nowhere near the town and it was about a 25 minute shuttle ride to get there. In light of that, we decided to remain on board. I was still tiring easily and a day on a quiet ship seemed wonderful. Brian and I were able to easily get our laundry done and, all in all, it was a relaxing day.

The next morning we woke up in La Palma. We were docked right in the middle of town.

It was very easy just to walk into town to explore, so that was exactly what we did. We wandered up and down the main streets in town, looked in shops, and visited a church. Brian even found an optician who could fix his misaligned glasses!

We walked down a road that was paved like this:

It wasn’t very comfortable to walk on!

We had some euros burning a hole in our pocket and, since this was the last port we were going to where euros were the currency, we decided to find a place to have some lunch. Our restaurant is in the photo below. It’s at the end of the street on the right.

We sat down at a table outside and, two hours later, we were done. Our meal consisted of two tapas, two pizzas, two beers, and three small glasses of wine. The food was not gourmet food but it was perfectly fine bar food and we really enjoyed ourselves. The owners were working really hard to serve all the tourists who were there. There were two cruise ships in town today, so the place was hopping. Check out the individual pizza cutters that came with each pizza.

Back in the cruise port, I noticed this very interesting mermaid statue.

It was an enjoyable day. La Palma is a beautiful town and the weather was wonderful. We boarded our ship knowing that we now has seven sea days until we reached Fort Lauderdale.