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PortugalUncle Mark treated all of us to a busman’s holiday on the Lisbon trams. Especially for my birthday treat. We spent a good couple of hours travelling round some amazing routes that twisted and trumps through the narrow city streets. The tramway runs at 600 volts which allows the tramcars to get up some fairly steep inclines. Treated to wine and cake as part of our tour. A birthday to remember.
SpainTook an coach from the ship to the Parque Nacional Timanfaya or Fire Mountain. The site of multiple volcanic eruptions the landscape and views were spectacular. At the top we visited a architecturally clever visitor centre which seemed to hunker down into the volcanic rock. Treated to some visual and sensory displays of how high the ground temperature is just below the surface. Stones from just aRead more
SpainWhat an incredible experience in a superb modern submarine, I think the pictures say it all. It would have been great to have just a little longer on the trip.
SpainIt’s a lovely feeling on a cruise being up to sail into Port. Grand Canaria wasn’t especially our favourite place on the cruise (in terms of its landscape, nature and level of development) but the Submarine trip above was ace.
We had quite a few sea days on the cruise and inevitably lots of eating and drinking was involved. The food throughout the cruise was stunning but the specialist restaurants (where you paid a little extra) were the highlight. We loved the Indian Restaurant called Sindhu was the best. Some lovely pics of Lyn in this post.
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