West End singer Paul Baker was in the Theatre last night, but Wilson was too hung-over to go. He's feeling better today, though, and we are now in Santa Cruz, La Palma — one of the Canary Islands!
In the first photo you can see W halfway up a mountain. Once he heard that all the mountains, in fact the entire island, was volcanic he required a bit of persuasion; when he saw that nobody else on the tour was concerned, though, he showed considerable sangfroid and agreed to continue with the excursion.
Later we stopped off for refreshments, where we were given island-grown bananas, a local variety of new potato served with a special relish, and goats' cheese. There was also local wine on offer, but Wilson wisely declined this and settled for mineral water.
On the way down the mountain we saw a lot of bananas growing. W was intrigued, as he had previously assumed bananas were fabricated by Tesco and the other major supermarkets in factories.
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