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Arrecife Lanzerote 2026

After another broken nights sleep.. which I think was worse because we had somehow had a goodnights sleep the night before.. we docked very early and very loudly at the last port in the Canaries...Arrecife, Lanzerote.  Dr Fred and I came to Lanzerote some years ago - not to this bit, we did some wet and windy walking on a volcanic mound somewhere inland..

Arrecife is a pleasant enough town, full of blue and white buildings sprawling across a fairly - compared with previous isles) landscape.  There was a shuttle bus to the edge of town driving past some interesting, possibley old terracing and stone walling. This is how to keep the land fertile and damp, but there was no evidence of planting.  We continued past the Castel de Jose which house an art gallery thinking we might visit later.   A mile or so on the bus parked up and we walked into town through the main shopping area.  We were heading to the promenade on the other side of the headland. There were 2 more cruise ships in port so it was quite busy and to be honest it could have been pretty much any shopping street in any continental town. 
Out by the sea was an old fort. Its a tiny thing set upon a small island now reachable by a walkway and by a drawbridge.
It sits there with two cannons and was remarkabley busy so we didn't even try to get inside.  There were some rocks so I sat and watched endless tourists take the same photograph through the cannon while Dr Fred clambered around the lava rocks. 
I could tell Dr Fred was 'bored' 🤣 too much town life... i.e. two days in a row 😂 so I suggested coffee and cake. 
We had found the old bit of town and soon found a very spanish kind of coffee bar.. busy but we found a seat and orderrd 2 cafe con leches.. just as we ordered we realised we only had card payment and this bar only did cash so that was that and of course we ended up at one of the androgenous bars on the sea front....   Dr Fred actually said 'I am bored' - I don't think I've heard him say that before.... 
Time to go back to the powerpoint house.....
I think existing on about 6 hours broken sleep a night is leaving us broken people😂🤣. Its not even the lack of sleep cos'we could make that up during the day but the frusration of constant interuption... only 6 sleeps left.

I did buy two pieces of fabulous african fabric

I'm posting this  mistakes and all as possibly no internet for a few days
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