Today was another excursion; this time to the local small town named Breisach Am Rhein which overlooks the Rhine River and the border with France. After Breisach Am Rhein we ventured into France to visit an old walled city called Neuf-Brisach where we found a large crowd and a noisy festival underway as part of the May day (May 1st) celebrations.

The photos below are from a day excursion into the nearby Black Forest. As you can see the weather was great and made for good photos of the forest, lake and historic buildings.

Disembarkation was a slow affair. It seems that Europe has a new immigration computer system that will record biometric info about all people entering Europe in order to accurately enforce Shengen immigration rules. We got our first taste of this system today and while it might be comprehensive it is also slow. It took us about an hour to get through customs and immigration in Lisbon.

This morning we docked in the Moroccan town of Agadir, the last stop before Lisbon on Friday. Again we find our selves in a working port so ships are loading and unloading around us and the shore, immediately nearby is given over to stacked containers.

This morning we docked in the city of Arrecife which is the capital of the Island of Lanzarote. Lanzarote is the most northern island of the Canary Islands, which is Spanish territory and therefore part of Europe. Boy that was a mouth full.