Tag: retirement life
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Fuerteventura Vlog January 2017 – Food, Friends and Music
In this month’s Fuerteventura Vlog January 2017 we had friends over who were staying in a hotel early in the month so we met up with them (and ate). We also had friends coming over to stay with us for the last week of the month. This means we can play at being tourists again…
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Fuerteventura Vlog December 2016
This Fuerteventura Vlog December 2016 saw Sue fly off to the UK for Christmas again leaving the dogs and I to look after ourselves. Poor us having to spend Christmas in Fuerteventura! Actually, as soon as she left, so did the nice weather. We had two weeks of rain and then very strong winds and…
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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 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 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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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 – 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 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 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…