Blogs from Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, Spain, Europe

From last blog... Malaga - Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - Fuerteventura - Lanzarote - Barcelona - Frankfurt (Germany) We have wanted to go to the Canaries for a long time. They are a pretty remote group of islands in the Atlantic just off the coast of Western Africa and owned by Spain so we were excited about that - an island chain in the middle of nowhere with some Spanish flare - sweet, so back towards the Moroccon coast we flew! Landing in Gran Canaria, we arrived at our hotel, kicked off our bags and booked it to the beach, no Spanish flare in sight. With no intent on staying in touristy Las Palmas (Gran Canaria), we spent just one night there hopping on the ferry early the next morning for the more desolate, less ... read more

Tuesday 15th December, 2015. Fuerteventura, Canary Islands After a posh breakfast we caught the free shuttle to the port gates and then walked along the seafront at Puerto Del Rosario (Port of the Rosary) which has been the capital of the island since 1860. The town centre is adjacent to the port and everything is within easy walking distance of the quay. We took a photo of a sculpture called "Overseas Luggage" which is a tribute to the round-trip migration phenomenon. It is a testimony of the Majorero who emigrated into the island in other times and that today receives a whole multicultural community. It is a nostalgic sculpture of the traveller and his luggage loaded with memories - M loved it. We found the tourist office who told us where we could find a cafe ... read more

I got up early again today and went for a run. Like yesterday, it is overcast again today, so the sun was no where to be seen. I would have expected this to mean that it would be cooler for a run, which is probably true, but it had become substantially more humid, which made running less rather than more comfortable. After a quick breakfast, we headed out early to the market, which is in town every Tuesday and Friday mornings. It was the usual collection of fake bags, fake purses, fake wallets, fake watches, friendship bracelets and other assorted tat. We knew our daughter, who had decided that she would rather stay by the pool , was after a purse, so we thougt we would get her one. The opening price was outrageous and even ... read more

It was another early start before sunrise for me this morning. The sad, geek photographer walked back to the sand-dunes in the dark for some photographs. I wasn't disappointed, although it did look very cloudy as the light started to break. We had booked a dune buggy tour at 2.30pm, so we had until then to take it easy and enjoy the sun, since that early morning cloud had cleared. We managed to get the postcards written, some washing and ironing done (there is a washing machine in the villa, which is a blessing or a curse depending on your point of view) and the travel blog up-to-date. The meeting point for the dune-buggy tour was outside a bright pink frozen yogurt shop, which is impossible not to have noticed. That's probably why they chose it ... read more

I got up early again, this time before sunrise, and went off to the beach with my camera and tripod for some early morning photographs. I wasn't disappointed. The main mission for this morning was to go and get the hire car. I got to the Hertz office just after it office opened (still no signs of life at the Avis office), but the car wasn't ready so I went for a walk around the old town and harbour. The car was waiting when I got back. I went outside and was just in the process of orientating myself with the controls when a policeman knocked on the window. The car had been doubled parked and was causing an obstruction. I was trying to explain that I had literally only just got in the car when ... read more