Lanzarote day 8

We were out of the villa just before 10am and headed to the Rancho Texas Lanzarote park. We spent the rest of the morning there and had lunch in the restaurant – very reasonable prices and Texas portion sizes! Having seen things in the news about flights from the UK we decided it was best…

Lanzarote day 1

Mum and Dad had travelled up to the Crowne Plaza at Manchester airport yesterday. We met them at the airport and all went smoothly for our outbound flight with Jet2 at 10:15am. On arrival, picking up the hire car from Top Car was also easy with no queuing. Having upgraded to a Citroen Grand Picasso…

Fuerteventura day 8

We dropped off our hold luggage at the Jet2 resort check-in just before 9am. We also didn’t have to check out of the hotel until 12pm. That left us free to have breakfast, one last grit blasting on the dunes and a bit of lunch before our private transfer collected us at 12:40. The taxi…

Fuerteventura day 7

We put Ellie in the carrier and took a walk along the grit blasting dunes towards the Riu hotels. The wind wasn’t that much stronger today, but was directly onshore. After lunch we walked to the supermarket next to Oasis Papagayo to get some more pouches for Ellie. Then the usual circuit back to the…