Life Without Toast - Sibling Rivalry

Well, We're back (and browner than before).

• Hotel: Good. Really nice pools (2), spacious room with enormous bed, private access to beach, discount at nearby massage/'Thalassotherapy' emporium, and they had Erdinger in the bars. The only complaints (and they're two big ones) is that the food was really, really shit, and most of the staff had some sort of 'holier-than-thou' attitute where they wouldn't give you the time of day, let alone come over to take your order at the bar when you'd been frantically waving at them for about five minutes.
• Weather: Fab. Cloudy most mornings but that burned off by about 10 or 11am each day. 30 degrees or so every day, with a nice breeze preventing you from sweating like a knacker (actually, on one day it was less breezy and more windy, which started a bit of a twister going in the desert just outside Puerto de Rosario, which prompted Nikki to plead with me to go faster while we drove past it. It wasn't exactly big enough to do any damage, and I wanted to stop and take a photo or two, but she was having none of it.
• Food: Ok. Not brilliant, but ok. Being a vegetarian (but eating fish), and being on an island which is part of Spain, a country full of rampant carnivores, there wasn't a huge choice (ie fish, or 'vegetables'). We had a good indian on one day though. And there was an Italian gelateria across the road from the hotel that did some ridiculously tasty desserts.
• The Island: Great. The scenery (volcanic in nature) was spectacular, deserty in parts, craggy and black in others, and so like the surface of Mars in places I'm surprised they haven't filmed some kind of Martian Exploration docu-drama there yet. The Northern port town of Corralejo was a bit tacky and divey, the southernmost town of Jandia was lovely and had an amazing beach. The villages in the middle of the montains were sleepy, and when we drove around in the afternoon during Siesta-time, it was like driving through ghost towns, and kinda eerie and weird as a result.
• Car Hire (and driving on the right/wrong side of the road): Cool. We got a brand new Seat Cordoba for two days for ?75, which was pretty good I think. Drivig on that 'other side' was really easy, to my surprise, but that may have had a lot to do with the profound lack of cars, traffic and people on the island. Seriously, in parts we drove for miles without meeting another car at all, which was a blessing when you're driving on a mountain road with a cliff on one side and not exactly enough room for two cars to pass each other.

A great little break in the sun all in all, I would recommend Fuerteventura to anyone looking for a quiet sun holiday, but there really isn't enough on the island to keep you occupied for more than a week or so, unless you're a devoted sun-worshipper who doesn't care about anything but the amount of hours of sunshine per day. Didn't take a lot of pics, a few panoramas that will appear on Flickr as soon as I get round to it, but not much else, as I'm not reallt into the whole "and here's another pic of me beside the pool, sunbathing"-thing. Or pics of women with fake boobs, sunbathing topless.