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  • Fuerteventura - 2016 in 3 minutes

    Fuerteventura – 2016 in 3 minutes

    Fuerteventura – 2016 in 3 minutes Fuerteventura – 2016 in 3 minutes – my Fuerteventura 2016 review in a short video. Well actually it didn’t seem to take much longer than 3 minutes to happen in real time but I guess that is what happens when you get older and you are an expat in…

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  • Fuerteventura Kite Festival 2016

    Fuerteventura Kite Festival 2016

    Fuerteventura Kite Festival 2016 Watch out for low flying sharks at the Fuerteventura Kite Festival 2016 This was the 29th annual Fuerteventura Kite Festival 2016 which takes place every November on the Dunes Beach near Corralejo. As usual there were hundreds of colourful and amusing kites flying above the beach and, of course, the weather…

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  • Corralejo Fuerteventura

    Corralejo Fuerteventura – What is it like?

    Corralejo – What is it like? Corralejo is the biggest resort in the north of Fuerteventura. It is located on the north-easy coast and is popular with tourists from the UK, Italy and others. Unlike Caleta de Fuste and Costa Calma, it has life apart from tourism, which includes fishing and the port. This I…

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  • one year on youtube

    One year on Youtube – My Experiences So Far

    One Year on Youtube One year on Youtube! It is hard to believe that I have been making videos for Youtube for a whole year but life just flies by the older you get, unfortunately. Overall I have enjoyed it. It is certainly very frustrating at times. Particularly when you have put a lot of…

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  • Pool Toys

    Dance of the Pool Toys – a bit of fun!

    Dance of the Pool Toys I was working on a video which was taking longer than I expected to edit. I looked out of the window towards the pool and saw the inflatable pool toys moving around in the breeze. That provided the spark of an idea so I set the camera up and started…

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  • Spell Fuerteventura

    How to spell Fuerteventura!

    The many ways people spell Fuerteventura Why did I end up living on an island with a name that people seem to have so much trouble spelling (and pronouncing)? My Mum, bless her, could never get the word out without stumbling over it which she and us always found funny although she would have been…

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  • Battle of the Somme

    Battle of the Somme – Fuerteventura Trenches

    Battle of the Somme On 1st July 2016 it was the 100th anniversary of the first day of the Battle of the Somme, a major battle of the First World War. 20,000 British soldiers died on that day alone. I found some natural features in the landscape here in the dry river beds near Lajares…

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  • Rock Pools

    Rock Pools at the El Cotillo Lagoons

    Exploring the rock pools at the lagoons We spent a few hours sunbathing and exploring the rock pools in the beautiful El Cotillo lagoon beaches. This was the first time we had been to the beach together for a year, which is pretty sad. We have pledged to go once a week from now on…

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  • Fuerteventura Vlog April

    Fuerteventura Vlog April 2016

     Fuerteventura Vlog April 2016 Fuerteventura Vlog April 2016 April started off busy as our friends Mike, Kirsteen and their daughter Suzi were staying with us for the first week but then it became a little quiet, which suited us as we were going to have a busy May. Including: – Shopping in Corralejo – Dinner…

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  • catamaran trip

    Catamaran Trip

    Catamaran trip to Isla de Lobos from Corralejo in Fuerteventura We took our visiting friends on this catamaran trip, which was a great success. The catamaran holds 10, but we were the only ones booked that afternoon, so we had it to ourselves, making it even better. We motored across to the island of Lobos…

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