Tag: retirement

  • 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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  • 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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  • Fuerteventura 2016

    Talented musicians – Fuerteventura 2016

    What happened in June – Living in Fuerteventura 2016 This month’s Fuerteventura 2016 blog shows what we got up to living in Fuerteventura in June. It was a relatively quiet month with some lovely weather. It was Sue’s birthday so we went to El Cotillo to celebrate. After a nice meal, eaten overlooking the sea…

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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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  • 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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  • Cofete

    Cofete: The Windy Road

     The Windy Road To Cofete That is windy as in “bendy” not windy as in “breezy”. Cofete is almost at the bottom of Fuerteventura and is somewhere not many people see. We took our friends on a trip down south to Cofete, which is quite a trek once you leave the paved roads of Morro…

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