The Lost World: Otherworldly beauty in La Palma

For top-class food and drink, and also for its otherworldly beauty, it’s well worth making the connection to La Palma in the Canaries, writes Sam Boland

Coming in to land at an island airport, the plane’s windows filling with the sea below as the pilot banks sharply, always feels a little bit more intrepid than usual for those of us used to landing among the wide open fields of Cork, Stansted, and the like.