Today on the gloriously sunny island of Fuerteventura ( I feel like I'm reintroducing after the adverts) we explored the northern coast, where there were loads of lagoons, people, and more wild seas... it was a small seaside town called Cotilla - very Spanish and surprisingly tasteful as tourist places go. we haven't been to the 'big' towns yet but we are struck by how unlike mainland Spain holiday resorts the island is, all the hotels seem to be low rise - or at least are in the smaller towns - tomorrow we get the ferry to Lanzarote and that is from a huge tourist town so the buildings there may well by high rise and more like we expected. if you look closely there is a girl doing a handstand in this picture!! (show off) The coastal rocks were mainly black and volcanic and we drove through a very varying landscape - at one point it was just a vast volcanic lava spill, a little bit like Craters of the Moon we visited last year in Idaho USA. Fields and fields of ...