20th November, 2017 Atlantic Ocean and arrival in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain

We slept in this morning and didn't arrive at breakfast in the Main dining room until almost 8.30am.  The storm that threatened last night amounted to a couple of thunder storms and mild rocking , but nothing significant.

Today we arrive mid morning in Santa Cruz de Tenerife a Spanish Island located off the coast of Africa and is the largest of the Canary Islands.  We have visited this island some 4 years ago whilst on Oceania Marina.   We rode the hop on hop off bus on that occasion so will only go into town for a walk about and then visit a chemist for a couple of things before returning for a late lunch and afternoon relaxing.

We depart the ship and decide to walk into the city.  this is a relatively quiet small city and regular stopover for cruise ships making the trek across the Atlantic to home ports either in Miami, Fort Lauderdale or similar.

This is a pretty city and the port is on the edge of the city so we can walk in to the city.  We decide against riding the hop on hop off bus and walk in and then through the mall.

We do decide to visit a pharmacy and then walk back along the central mall.   Then we do have a cool drink

This is a perfect morning with temperatures in the high 20 degrees Celsius, but again you don't want to be in the sun for too long.

We then return to the ship after some 3-4 hours ashore, but we also wanted time to relax on the ship.

Many have taken shore excursions across the island to some mountainous areas.

We return to the ship and enjoy lunch in Waves ( hamburger and fish and chips and salad, followed by an ice cream).  

Then Ken watches a film, Jeanette does more postcards