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  • Fuerteventura Vlog November 2016

    Fuerteventura Vlog November 2016 – Celebrations

    Fuerteventura Vlog November 2016 – A Month of Celebrations In this month’s Fuerteventura Vlog November 2016 we had both our 8th anniversary (on the 8th) and my birthday (on the 18th). Not that there is anything to celebrate in my birthday, apart from the fact that I am still here! As George Burns said “I don’t…

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  • Fuerteventura October 2016 – Vlog

    Fuerteventura October 2016 – Vlog Fuerteventura October 2016: So, what happened in Fuerteventura during October? Well, winter has arrived early and we have had lots of rain. Well, lots by Fuerteventuran standards anyway. Of course there have been lots of nice warm, dry bits in between. This month: – We went to El Cotillo for…

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  • fuerteventura vlog september

    Fuerteventura Vlog September 2016 – A Lovely Month

    Fuerteventura Vlog September 2016 September and October are often the two nicest months here. The weather is wonderful, with generally less wind, and the Spanish holiday period is over so there are less people on the beach and no more noisy fiestas in the area. We did have some rain, which is very unusual, but…

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  • Fuerteventura Vlog August

    Fuerteventura Vlog August 2016

    Fuerteventura Vlog August 2016 August was a very hot month here in Fuerteventura with lots of Calimas (hot, dry, dusty winds from the Sahara). This vlog contains: eating out at Casa Vieja in La Oliva with friends car repairs (just a bit of tlc to the tow bar that was looking a bit rusty) buggy…

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  • Fuerteventura July

    Monthly Vlog Fuerteventura July 2016

    Monthly Vlog Fuerteventura July 2016 – A Hot and Quiet Month We had no visitors during July and as it was quite hot, with a Calima too, we did very little apart from cool off in the pool. That suited us but doesn’t make for much of an interesting video. But that is life here…

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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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  • Fuerteventura Vlog May

    Fuerteventura Vlog May 2016 – UK Trip

    Fuerteventura Vlog May 2016 Not much about Fuerte in my Fuerteventura Vlog May as it was rather dominated by our trip back to the UK to attend my son’s wedding in Canterbury. First stop was Somerset to stay with our friends Nick and Sheila in their house in Thorney, on the Somerset Levels. The house…

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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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  • Fuerteventura Vlog March

    Fuerteventura Vlog March 2016

    Fuerteventura Vlog March 2016 March was a bit wet in Fuerteventura at times but it at least it does make the island green(ish). Including:: – Putting a garden fork through the mains water suppy – Corralejo seafront life – visit to Jandia beach – a poor little cat we found in the garden – cleaning…

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  • Winter in Fuerteventura

    Winter in Fuerteventura Vlog February 2016

    Fuerteventura Vlog February 2016 – Winter in Fuerteventura What happened in my life during winter in Fuerteventura in February 2016. Although the start of February was lovely, winter finally arrived so we had snow, hail, frosts and – well perhaps not. OK we had a couple of weeks of sometimes cloudy weather with 4 or…

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