Active Travel Plans

  Quick wrap up post. Dawn departure to the airport, far to early, booking a taxi a bit of a pain not been in a hotel, we could have walked down into the town, but no guarantees so paid a premium for a minibus, and then sat at the airport playing clash of clans and blogging until check in desk opened.  Some of those carnival peeps turned up here too! Thoughts now turn to next travel trips, the year is taking shape but the 'big one' yet to fully materialise. Our appetite whetted by the latino feel, Argentina now very much looking on the cards if the stars align. And a trip back to the Canaries at this time of the year very much in our sights for 2027 should we be fortunate enough to have the time and resource. So trips abroad for the year (and this blog) already in play are Berlin (and surrounds), Alpine cycling, and a journey through Croatia and Bosnia. The former 2 should allow for a catch up with 2 of the most engaged readers of this blog, and bloggers / travellers / posters...

  Very much goodbye rain, hello sun today, although it was sunset when we finally arrived in Lanzarote but I could still very much feel the sun had been active (as indeed I plan to be during our stay)  Set the tone for active before we even departed (to be fair the whole of the last month or two has been pretty active as I seek to bury the memories of Chicago) and negotiated the rain, mud and puddles to a parkrun near the Premier Inn we had booked to stay the night before our departure to Lanzarote. In getting the main drive out of the way last night, we were able to remedy the various things we had forgotten with a couple of near closing time visits to supermarkets in / around Crawley, and feel that we were indeed ready for lift off, get a bit of sleep and not have to rush around before departure. The parkrun so the various stats tell me is my 101st different one and starts with an I, these are important facts for the community.  The course , which is more of an importan...