Travel Blogs from Playa Blanca, Spain and Canary Islands
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Lanzarote - Playa Blanca
... to Lanzarote was to relax, relax and relax. That was exactly what we did. We booked 18 nights in a private villa in Playa Blanca through a website while we were in Beijing a coupld of weeks earlier. We booked the flights via the internet and then ...
Playa Blanca
... up with our friends the Aussie Kiwi couple, Tim and Flic, in Cartagena the night before we decided to group together and get ourselves over to Playa Blanca, Colombia´s best beach on the isla de Baru, just our slide of Cartagena. At 8am we left the hostel ...
Guns,Pirates, Bad Weather, Sea Sickness and ??????
... the thousands of dollars damage to electrical equipment than our safety and that we would be held up in the Canary Islands making out insurance claims and repairing Bella. Day 4 woke up to bright blue skies and gentle seas which is how I believe it ...
Boat trip and major wus's Caroline
... was the only one from our family to get in the water, albeit with his wetsuit on. Oliver managed the banana boat, snorkeling and kayaking while I watched from the boat covered up with a fleece ! Cold water and I don't go together well. Another relaxing ...
Retail therapy and SCUBU trial. CA
... they can scoff in one meal and shouting about man versus food! At the kids club the theme was chocolate. When I picked Oliver and cousins up they had their faces painted with chocolate and looked very happy. We asked Oliver if he enjoyed kids club that ...
Pool,pool and more pool. Ca
... , to be sure! I save these days in my memory for when I am back at work with 20 patients to see for the afternoon and I'm running behind by 1/2 an hour and then a patient staggers in with chest pain....... The boys have decided to do the open water SCUBU ...
Tied up in Rubicon, Lanzarote
... fantastic island of Lanzarote at 9am local time on 7 April 2011. A much deserved slap up meal & a celebratory mojito followed and then, sadly Jon & Cecily were off to the airport to head back to glamorous Gatwick. 36 hours later old habits ...
We love heights.....NOT ! CA
... guilty. Mind you, I was only marginally less anxious! Well it felt good when I finished the course, which took half an hour , and I felt like I'd achieved something . Tim's legs were so shaky as he was climbing down the rope ladder at the end that I felt ...
Beach and pool day. Caroline
... so much it was ridiculous. When Oliver lay down in bed to go to sleep,he groaned how full and sick he felt. They must have had about 12 scoops of ice cream each through the day and about as many fizzy drinks. Will they ever tire of eating excess ...
First SCUBU dive for 14 yrs. CA
... . The boys are finally getting fed up of eating too much and eating rubbish.... Finally ! They are only managing 2-3 fizzy drinks a day (!) and 2 ice creams !!!!! They even had a bit of salad with their dinner tonight and I'm sure I saw a bit of fruit at ...
Centre Park Lake District - nick
To day I woke up (when am I going to stop saying that!) . We had a ...
SCUBU start. Caroline
... ( sorry boys ! ) and spent more money in the market before picking the boys up for a walk along the waterfront home. Nick and Oliver have already completed a pool dive and 2/5 of the book work. Nick struggled a bit taking his mask off for a minute under ...
Back to Bargoed (again!) (Nicky)
... woke up and read my book in the bathroom of our room at the premier inn until the others were awake. We had breakfast downstairs and then went to the Gatwick train station and we'd trained to Cardiff via Reading. At Cardiff, dad left us because he needed ...
Living the quiet life
... modern “holiday” home in a small complex right on the cliff top by the sea front path. It is easy to walk into Playa Blanca (25 minutes walk) west, or across the hills to Papagayo beaches (20 minutes east), and we are only a few minutes from a ...
Scuba diving (Nicky)
... did the quiz from the day before and the final quiz. We went and did our final that mainly focused on compass navigating. Damian and I found a dead lizard fish which had teeth on its tongue and stuff. After we had our licences sent to grandmas house. We ...
All inclusive bliss-Canaries. Caroline
... a fab Premier Inn breakfast - man the weight is piling on ! - then onto the plane to Lanzarote in the Canary Islands. We have 2 weeks holidays planned with Tim's sister and family and Olive, Tim's mum. Tim and I have been on a package holiday years ago to ...
Aboard Tethys
... ! We met Cliff and Clair who spend a lot of time abroad each year and stay in Jose's apartment in Playa Blanca. A great day. Jose and Tatiana have a lovely son who is now seven months old is called 'Ignacio Valentino' and of course he ...
Lanzarote, Spain
... called Lanceloto Molocella, occupied it and gave the island his name. In 1402 the Spanish started their conquest of the Canary Islands and Lanzarote was quickly and with very little violence incorporated into the Spanish Kingdom. The conquest of all the ...
Fabulous
Wooo.......Lanzarote...a beautiful place..and turned out to be a fantastic success. Rained quite a bit though...it was all good ...
Fun in the Sun
Arrived at Playa Blanca after a twenty minute ride from the airport at about 9.30. Atlantic Garden Bungalows were very nice and peaceful right on the shore and clean and lovely. What a nice time we had, reading, walking along the promenade which ...
Arica...Relaxing in Playa Blanca.
Monday 25th July. We had been to Playa Blanca several times so were very familiar with the area. At this stage we were not sure where Alan was going to leave the boat. He had a bit of homework to do. He had several choices as well as the Marina ...
To the beach
We decided it was time to work on the tans so we headed to the market in Cartegena and got ourselves on a boat to Playa Blanca - a stretch of beach about 40mins from Cartegena. It was an interesting ride. We were packed into a little boat loaded with ...
Kanarische Inseln/Lanzarote
Flug von Zürich nach Arrecife. Anschliessend mit dem Bus nach Playa Blanca (ca. 35 km). 1 Woche Aufenthalt in Playa Blanca, im Süden der Insel. Besuch National Park Timanfaya (Vulkan-Landschaft) Besuch Fundación César Manrique Besuch der Jameos del ...
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