A couple of years ago we took an extended family holiday to Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands for my dad’s 60th birthday. It was a really lovely week. There are pictures, somewhere, but this is the only one I can find right now. A picture I loved so much I even used it on my business cards.
Gorgeous, isn’t it?
I haven’t been abroad very many times in my life. The older three children have been once. Tigerboy doesn’t even have a passport yet. I’ve been watching Laura’s family’s fantastic adventure in Italy, and thinking that I’d love to do something like that, and it would have to be soon, before the older children have too many separate strands of their lives.
I’d love to visit mainland Spain, that was the one bit of Europe that I didn’t visit when I interrailed at 18. (Something to do with different size train tracks if I remember correctly.) I’d love to see the Rioja region, visit Catalan, though I’m not that fussed on visiting the Spanish coast.
I do like the various spanish islands. Tenerife was our first family holiday, way back in the eighties we spent Christmas and New Year in what seemed to me an impossibly posh hotel. I remember watching Star Wars on a big screen, swimming in the hotel pool on Christmas day, when my little sister thought everyone was partying for her on New Year’s Eve. (They did bring out a cake.)
Here in the UK, autumn has hit with a vengeance this week. Definitely time for dreaming of foreign sun. I’ve only briefly visited Italy (Rome and back in a day while on that interrailing trip. It’s an incredible place.) but I’d like to go back. So I guess my ideal holiday would probably span a month or two, with plenty of travelling, and some long pauses to explore in between. For the time being I’d settle for a week though 😉
This is my entry to win a week’s holiday in Fuerteventura with Kyero.
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