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…
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…
Fuerteventura Roads Generally the Fuerteventura roads are very good. We don’t get the weather here that ruins roads in the UK and northern Europe. By that I mean the constant freeze/thaw in the winter that breaks up the surface. I enjoy driving here as the roads are interesting with lots of bends so you don’t…
Beaches of El Cotillo – North of the village The beaches of El Cotillo are very varied. There are sheltered beaches to the north of the village and more rugged (but more spectacular) beaches to the south. I started the tour to the north, near the Toston lighthouse, where the beaches lie among the lagoons.…
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…
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…