La Palma

Here are just a few impressions from La Palma, which we confirmed to be our favorite Canraian island.  This time we had a rental car for three days and toured the island extensively. As always, impressively beautiful. It is hard to tell wether it is the clear height at 2000m with their impressive views, the laurel forests at the wetter Northeast, the rather distinct fir trees in the central caldeira, or maybe the fairly young volcanos in the south.

Together with just light tourism and the friendly capital of Santa Cruz, it  all adds up to a wonderful impression.

For us a week went by in no time. Now we plan to finally take off for the Azores. While the summer weather, with the typical Azores High hasn't yet settled in, so that we will have to deal with westerly winds once north of Madeira's latitude, we thought we will aim for Flores to make some distance towards west, and after two days turn north to Sanat Maria.

This means we will sail trough the Azores East to West and then West to East again, before taking off for the mainland in late July. - At least, that's the plan…...