April 8, 2025
Another port today. No Seaday’s in between ports to rest our legs. Today we are visiting the Canary Island of Lanzarote. The City we are visiting is called Arrecife. Population for the City is 68,000 . Population for the whole island is 163,000 .
As we are docked in the port area, a shuttle is provided to transport us to the local marina area in walking distance to the city center. It was a very pleasant walk into town, following the shoreline of the local lagoon. The lagoon is a mooring place for numerous small boats, you wonder if they are ever leave their mooring spots. A few noticable differences with yesterday’s visit in Santa Cruz is, all the buildings here are white. By building code, no high rises are allowed here. We spend the morning walking all the narrow streets, occasionaly peeking in the odd store.The old cathedral was open today, which gave us an opportunity to have a look inside. We ended up at an old structure on the foreshore, build out of nice old stone. After more walking we stopped for lunch at the shores of the lagoon. We had some Sangria, Cold beer and a dish called a varity of croquettes. It was so nice sitting on this patio overlooking the lagoon,with just perfect weather. After we returned to the shuttle pick up point we checked out some local vendors which had set up stalls selling leathers and linens. Shortly after , we boarded the shuttle back to the ship.
This was another great visit in a beautiful City, worth of spending more time.
For you who are interested, you can go back in the blog to April 4 2023 and read about the island tour we did at that time.
Cheers
Cor and Carol
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