This is part of a series called Canary Islands 2026 Our last 1.5 days in the Canary Islands was spent in Gran Canaria, the third largest and second most populous island in the archipelago. While we really didn’t spend any time in Tenerife, the over 860,000 residents on this island are noticeable in the major…
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This is part of a series called Canary Islands 2026 Today we visited what I believe is the most unusual of the Canary Islands — Lanzarote. It is very different than the other islands we have visited so far, but it is also a story about resiliency. It is the easternmost of the Canary Islands,…
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This is part of a series called Canary Islands 2026 We spent the last two days visiting Portugal’s Autonomous Region of Madeira, a 250 mile detour from our journey around the Canary Islands. On our first day, we spent our time wandering around the capital city of Funchal. On the second day, we toured around…
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This is part of a series called Canary Islands 2026 Today we visited the island of La Palma, the fifth largest of the Canary Islands, coming in at around 273 sq. miles with a population of near 85,000. Quite a difference from yesterday at La Gomera. While both are volcanic islands, La Gomera is quite…
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This is part of a series called Canary Islands 2026 Today, we made our first stop at the island of La Gomera which is only 18 miles away from the west coast of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. While geographically close, it is worlds away in terms of its way of life. It’s the smallest of…
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This is part of a series called Pan European Sojourn 2023 At the conclusion of the cruise, we extended for 1.5 days in Vienna. Since we disembarked the ship in Budapest, we spent about 3 hours zooming around in both the Buda and Pest sides of the Danube. We had been to both Budapest and…
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This is part of a series called Pan European Sojourn 2023 On our last full day of the cruise, we found ourselves in an area of Hungary called the Southern Transdanubia to visit Pécs, the 5th largest city in Hungary, but second only to Budapest in the number of visits. The city actually dates back…
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This is part of a series called Pan European Sojourn 2023 This morning we visited Novi Sad, a truly multicultural city in Serbia. While most of the places we have visited during this trip had significant Ottoman impact through occupation of up to 500 years, no such thing happened here as the Ottoman Turk advance…
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This is part of a series called Pan European Sojourn 2023 Today, we visited the capital of Serbia, Belgrade. It had also been the capital of Yugoslavia. In fact, Belgrade is one of the oldest cities in Europe, having been conquered and rebuilt 40 times during its rather tumultuous history. We spent our time focusing…
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This is part of a series called Pan European Sojourn 2023 Today was largely a cruising day. In the middle of the night and very early in the morning, we passed through 2 locks. Having through that experience before and after a night of dancing and wild abandon, we chose to sleep in. Later in…
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