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Friday - If you want to fly to La Palma currently, you don't have a lot of options. We flew with Thomson, who have one flight a week from Gatwick. They also have one a week from Manchester, if you happen to live up that way. The seats on their plane were made by Recaro and they looked more like the sort of bucket sports seats you might find in a stripped-down hot hatch. I was initially impressed by this, until I realised that the low-profile nature of their "sports" seats simply meant that Thomson were able to cram more of them in. There were a lot of people on our plane. Had the person in front of me reclined their seat, I reckon I would have been completely pinned in place. Fortunately, everyone had the decency to keep their seats completely upright.
We picked up the hire car (no issues there - in fact we got a free upgrade) and headed for the hotel. Despite the hotel only being 23 driving miles from the airport (and about 10 miles as the crow flies) and there being virtually no traffic on the roads, it still took over an hour to get there. The roads on La Palma are similar to those we experienced on Madeira, i.e. bendy. Really bendy. It was unusual to be able to drive for more than a hundred yards or so without needing to slam on the anchors for a hairpin bend.
Finally we arrived at our hotel and this is a photo of our room. Nice. Although as it turned out...
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