Gran Canaria 2018

GRAN CANARIA BLOG MARCH 2018 For my blogs on other islands, click; Fuerteventura  HERE Gran Canaria  HERE Madeira (2 visits)  HERE  and  HERE Majorca (2 visits)  HERE  and  HERE Skiathos (Greece)  HERE Kefalonia  HERE Cyprus 2018  HERE Parga 2019 (Greece)  HERE The 'Beast from the East' weather front (as it had been dubbed by the media) was fast approaching, and I spent a sleepless Monday night peering regularly out of the bedroom window to see if the forecast snow had arrived. Flying from Manchester airport in the very early hours of Tuesday, I was very tense. We set off at 4:30am, and it started to snow around 5am. This was what the planes looked like when we got to the airport. Sitting on board, the view through the window  over the wing was dire. We had a wait of one hour while the plane was de-iced, then it was up, up and away! Fast forward 4 hours...... Same plane, same wing,...