[Formerly YB-2]

Into La Palma & Tenirife on a cruise ship this past May.
On La Palma there were several choices on things to do/see on the island, but we choose to stroll the city and sample some local cuisine. As you can imagine, excellent calamari/squid dishes.
The city of Tenerife is considerably larger and quite a few more things to do. Again, we choose to do things on our own and really enjoyed ourselves. We took their local light rail to the top of the city (a fairly long trip........ ~45min to the top) and got a good view of the city, etc. We had a most memorable meal at the Restaurante El Lateral 27, Calle Bethencourt Alfonso in Tenerife. Wife had their pulpo plate and I the sardine plate. The salted green peppers tapas to start. All excellent. But, their desserts (and I'm not much of a dessert person) were sublime. Dulce de tres leches for the wife (said it was the best she has ever had and she's been trying them for many years). I walked inside to look in the refrigerated case hoping to find something. I picked what I thought was a pie-like milk chocolate thing (not a fan of dark chocolate), but when out in the light (we ate outside - it is located on a walking, only, street) it turned out to be dark chocolate................ and was wonderful. As is usual in France, Spain, Italy, etc., the meal took over 2 hours. We enjoyed our meal so much that we were sorry we didn't have another day in Tenerife as we would have surely returned.
Too many places to visit. Too little time.