Pics and other stuff

Last week we went to Oasis Park with my sister and her daughter. There are a few useful bits of knowledge that I got out of this trip. Fi...

Carnival started in Puerto del Rosario, capital of Fuerteventura, a few days ago. Big carnival parade will be next week and I am quite look...

Today we went for a walk up the volcano that is nearest to Corralejo, which apparently goes (or stands rather) by a funny name Bayuyo. Ther...

 Those two pictures were taken this evening with just eight minutes in between them. Just another demonstration of how fast everything chang...

Since we moved to Fuerteventura half a year ago, we spent every single night at the same place, not going anywhere, even for short while. I...

Small local sandpipers (or are they turnstones, maybe?)  look quite amusing when caught in mid-step. This one looks like he's doing a S...

I've just looked in Wikipedia and discovered that Betancuria proudly bear a "city" label in there . Well, I don't know. T...

Today I went around with friends who are here on holidays in their rented car. While fully understanding the benefits of not having a car (...

The calendar on the Yuri's school website displays, among other things, stuff like full moons. Reasons for that are best known to the d...

Yesterday a friend of ours gathered a few people in her new dance studio to celebrate its approaching opening. Since it was also King's ...

Yesterday me and Timur went to the post office to pic up yet another parcel from Amazon - two more Terry Pratchett's books for Yuri and...

There is very little chance of real snow here, although you never know of course.  We made this  garland before Christmas and it was han...

We all like fireworks, and there were some planned, so we debated for a while were to go for New Year midnight, and eventually decided to g...

Ok, that blanket I was knitting turned up to be veeeery long, so we can cover ourselves with it all four of us when we watch TV or someth...

 Even now, in winter, Fuerteventura's sun is strong and colors striking. And here is Timur, in his bright t-shirt, sitting against blue-...

Apart from being first Christmas, it was also a first time we all went on our bikes together. Mine is blue :). This is Corralejo Flag Beach...

On Christmas eve, gnomes bought for Yuri in Stokholm found their way on our patio table :)

Those chocolate cookies work with local ingredients just as well as they did with others :) Baked a batch today and want to do another one ...

There's nothing much to report recently. We kept unpacking and finding places for our stuff and I am proud to say that finally all the...

 Today we finally found sparklers for sale in Corralejo. Not that we were looking very hard before, of course, but there weren't any i...