A great day trip from Rome is Ostia Lido, a beach resort where the Tiber enters the ocean. The trip is about 45 minutes by train and it is the same ticket as the metro. There are several stops that has a sign for the beach and we tried a couple of them, with the same...
Overall impression Fuerteventura used to be a green island but after the Spaniards introduced goats the greenery is gone. Now the island is a dessert constantly in movement by strong winds, and millions of tonnes of new sand is dumped every year from Sahara by the...
Today’s kiting started really great, a couple of trips back and forth in the lagoon at Sotavento that felt really great. But unfortunately I was there a bit late after getting some new gear – a used 9 m kite, some screw for my board and a new harness...
After talking to a guy in Corralejo, I decided that the best place to learn kiting on Fuerteventura is Sotavento. 360 days of wind might be an exaggeration, but lots of wind and a big sandy beach, that at high tide forms a lagoon. I have been told that there is a...
Los Molinos on the west coast of Fuerteventura is a hidden pearl of a village. On the way there we tried to take a shortcut through the countryside, only to be told after 30 minutes on gravel roads that the road on the map wasn’t passable by anything larger than...
