Escape!

We have been super lucky this year, we managed to escape Blighty just in time, before the 2nd lockdown. 

Waaaaaay back in Feb, we booked a few holidays for 2020.  A week in Dubrovnik, exploring all those GoT sites we'd seen and loved on TV, and a 3 week train tour of southern Spain, from Seville to Valencia,  and also 6 glorious weeks in Fuerteventura!

 I have wanted to do a long term hol in Fuerteventura for many years, so many people we've met on the beach in the last 30 years are here for a month/3 months/6 months, whatever, and I've been desperate to do the same, 2 weeks just doesn't do it for me anymore......

My Dad, bless him, had the same kinda dream, he wanted to go anywhere with his caravan, and just travel for as long as poss. He and Mum went off to France the minute he retired in 1980ish and spent a lovely summer, wandering around all his favourite places for a few months, something he was never able to repeat, as he was diagnosed with Parkinson's the following year.

So, we booked all that as already mentioned, (except for the flight to Fuerte, luckily) and then a couple weeks later, all hell broke loose. Covid 19, lockdown, and all of that. Grim.

We had to cancel Dubrovnik and Spain.......duh.. (interestingly, we only just got the last refund from Ryanair the other day), .. but we decided to to wait and see for Fuerteventura.

There followed a particularly good summer by British standards, great weather for a change, but lots of queuing at Tesco, cafes and restaurants shut, pretty grim really. 

 I grew masses of veg in my newly built greenhouse and veg plots, John built loads of walls, we cut down trees,  shredded and burnt all the excess bits, he dug holes, and built steps, we had yet another extension built etc etc.

As November got nearer we looked at flights, and booked some extremely cheap options to go to Fuerte, and  crossed our fingers.

 A couple of weeks later, after 3 cancelled flights and many stressful days - specificly do we need a neg (and impossible to get) 72 hour test? Thankfully that only came in after we'd arrived...

Amy drove us to the airport, and, masks in hand, we boarded the plane. Didn't quite believe it till we had landed, but we are still here now after 4 weeks, and I have to say, I am in no hurry to get home. 

I think 3 months every winter would suit me just fine thanks 😊