Monday, a day of travel, packed up and driving back down the mountain, 1 ½ hr down to the coast. Nic needed some new trainers and luckily ‘Asics’, Nic’s choice of trainer, have a outlet store in Gran Canaria, so purchased a replacement set of trainers.
Got to the airport early for our flight to Fuerteventura, a large airport, but very reminiscent of Isle of Man flights, being at the last gate in the airport, and obviously a local flight, people knowing each other, a small plane, loading from the back.
We managed to spot the our next AirBnB home from the plane, landed in Fuerteventura, and the bags were really quick coming through, the car hire pick up was also easy. Still can’t believe we managed to get car for less than £10 per day.
The AirBnB Villa is only a few miles from the airport, we got checked in and met the host. Then we had to ‘hit’ Mercadona (the local supermarket) for supplies. Valentine’s day so a lateish supper of steak and chips for us after that.
Tuesday, a good friend arrived to spend a week with us.
We have had a few days of good weather, with a little bit of rain (nothing serious).
Saturday we drove to the north of the island, ‘Corralejo’, a large town with a lot more tourists than in ‘Castillo Caleta de Fuste’ where we are staying. Had lunch in ‘Mi Casa’ restaurant, then a drive along the north coast ‘road’. When we say road, it was on the map, other people were driving along it, but it was a dirt track, and an interesting dirt track.
Today, Sunday, we drove to the south end of the island to ‘Morro Jable’ a small tourist town, predominately used by German tourists, as evidenced by menus written with German as their first language. It had a lovely sandy beach. Had ice-cream Sundaes for lunch. Drove back via ‘Gran Tarajal’ a much more local town, which was nice to see rather than all the tourist settlements.
We are currently sitting writing this blog, whist it is raining outside ! but nothing like the storms that have hit the UK this week – we hope all our readers are safe!
Travurple 
Ice cream for lunch indeed!! It all looks very nice.
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