Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; Saturday, 23 February, 2019

I’d stayed the night before in an airport hotel as it was a relatively early flight, on waking up and looking out the window I did start to have concerns about whether I would actually get away as a very thick fog had descended across Heathrow overnight, with visibility down to less than 50m.

I headed down into the airport and through to departures. They had us all boarding on time, and in the end there was only about a 30 minute delay from the fog. We made up a little bit of the time on the way down to the Canaries, so were only about 25 minutes late landing. My bag was also about the third one on the belt, which meant that with a bit of a fast walk through the terminal I made the bus into town with about a minute to spare, the same one I would have caught if the flight had been on time.

I stayed on the bus to the end of the line and then walked the quarter mile or so to the hotel to check-in and get changed out of jeans into shorts and apply some suntan cream, before heading back over towards the bus station to pick up the hop-on-hop-off bus.

I did a full circuit of the tour round the city, before staying on for a couple of extra stops round to the beach.

I had a bit of a wander along the beach, which by now was mostly empty as the sun was setting.

I headed back up onto the prom and found a nice restaurant overlooking the beach where I had a very pleasant dinner before having a bit more of a wander along the prom and then returning to my hotel for an early night.