Fuertaventura February 2015.

February and time for our annual "Centre Parcs" holiday. This year we went to Correlejo. It was a volcanic island,as are all the other Canary Islands. It is also very,very windy. 

However, the house was lovely. As we've all got older we like to have a bit more space around us and we all like to have our own bathroom. This house had 4 bedrooms all with their own bathrooms. Perfect! Lorna and Ray had the master suite and they had their own terrace. Very posh indeed.

Breakfast room. Lovely sheltered place to eat.

           

      

               

             Very posh inside.

             I don't think Fuerteventura could ever be called attractive. Most of it is very barren with precious little natural greenery.

It is very mountainous and apart from a few scraggy goats we don't think the landscape supported any other animals.

 The area we were in is famous for its sand dunes 

The sand blows across this road, completely covering it. It's a bit disorienting and feels as if you are driving through the dessert.

                     

   

   This dune was the size of a small hill .It was all very amusing to slid down it until everyone realised how hard it was to get back up.!

 

                                    Lady down!

                               

      The weather was a bit naff one day so we had a drive back to the place we stayed at before. It was much windier there. We planed to have a bit of a walk until we saw this...........

   

 The spray was like fog

 We left there a bit sharpish!!

We went to a place called Cotillo. Where the lava had reached the sea it created little lagoons. The water looked very inviting as it was so shallow

                 

   

There isn't really very much to look at so they tend to " big up" what there is.

This place is a marine park. Basically a lighthouse, lots of black rock and weird little piles of pumice stone made into fancy shapes

        

                           

   It wasn't that heavy!

                    As it is always so windy ,people make little shelters from the rocks. If you can get one to yourself and there aren't that many, laying on the beach can be very pleasant 

                     

                    

       We found this beach bar and decided to have lunch there one day

Unfortunately, the day we went it was cloudy and a bit chilly.

        

      

The main reason for going to this bar was the "happy hour", 2 drinks for the price of one. Problem was it was only mojitos or beer. I tried a mojito but it wasn't for me, so I gave it to Val. The regular price for a cocktail was only €4 so I ordered a Mai Tai. It came in this enormous vase sized container 

It tasted all right but was a gungy green colour and took me about 2 hours to drink.

      

On Sunday we went to a market. Val and I were looking for little cardigans for our grandchildren. We didn't think it would be too difficult, but there were none to be had anywhere. Val bought one for her granddaughter and Charlotte decided to buy one for Ollie, her grandson. Unfortunately this was his reaction.

 

Not a success!

  We had a drive one day to a place called Oliva. It was once the municipal centre for the island. We expected a bustling little town with lots to see and do.

This was as bustling as it got!

It was quiet season, maybe it's busier in the high of the summer. We shall never know!