Tenerife is the largest of the Canary Islands and has the biggest population at almost 1,000,000 residents. The highest point is Mount Teide whose peak is at an elevation of 12,188 feet, which also makes it the highest peak in all of Spain. Mount Teide is also the third largest…

Today we arrived at our first stop Funchal, Madeira. We spent the morning exploring the old town, including Praca do Municipio, before having lunch at a very nice little fish restaurant in Avenida Santa Maria. Having already walked 10,000 steps and with Paul complaining of a sore throat, we headed…

Today we are half way to Madeira, having sailed some 670 miles. We had a bit of a bouncy ride across the Bay of Biscay, although nothing much compared with last year! This morning we went to watercolour painting and, to our amazement and delight, in walked Tony, our watercolour…

Yaay! It’s sailaway day! 😎 And we’re off. This time we’re doing 85 nights on Cunard’s Queen Anne, circumnavigating the globe in an anticlockwise direction, stopping at 23 destinations, from Madeira to Cape Town, from Mauritius to Hong Kong and from Sydney to Los Angeles, with lots more along the…