Lanzarote

Time to explore Lanzarote!

Today we hit land. Lanzarote, known for its year-round warm weather, beaches and volcanic landscape, will be the first of the Canary islands off the coast of West Africa that we will visit. Being administered by Spain, we had to swap our grazies for gracias. 

We were blessed with beautiful weather. Tops of 22 degrees Celsius, sunny blue skies and a cool breeze. As we were looking for our pick up for our excursion, a group of 3 people tried to steal our van transport answering to "Malcolm"! For once, having a not so common name helped...none of their names were Malcolm! Don't know where they were trying to go as we were going specifically to H2O Sports where our 2.5 hour buggy adventure would start from...

The tour was pretty simple. We visited 2 stops on buggies  - Volcan Del Cuervo and Las Grietas. The first was essentially the caldera of a volcano. Las Grietas is called ‘the cracks’ or "mini" Canyon by the locals and the rock formation is just that: a crack you can walk through. Our guide, Jose Antonio, was lovely but only spoke just enough English to explain the basics of what we were seeing. The fun was in the driving and seeing the pretty villages and rugged countryside. But it wasn't so fun at the beginning driving on the wrong side of the road at nearly 90km/hr in an unenclosed vehicle!!! My mother's fun was telling me how to drive. My daughter's fun was telling me I needed to go faster. The free facial massage was a bonus. I was loving my extra large sunglasses even more today. 

Driving was exertion enough and we decided to head back to the ship for a late lunch, some bingo and corn hole before dinner and the evening show. 

The island is clean with pretty villages

I was concentrating too hard to look at the beaches

Yes it was scary!

The volcanic landscape

We were in the caldera

The view that our fat heads covered

Las Grietas

Also known as "The Cracks"

You can just see the cars parked below

Our buggy. We had 4 in one and 3 in the other

Back on the ship for bingo

Corn hole. The form is questionable

The pianist had a weird leg movement thing going that got a bit off putting to watch after a while! The movements were extreme!