Planet Ruby Starrs

We really crammed what we could into the few days we had in London, having really 'done' the V&A we decided to have a little flirt with the natural History museum and and the Science museum. The Natural History museum proved quite enticing - we initially wanted to see the whale bone in the great hall and got sidetracked by all sorts of fab exhibits - another amazing place for inspiration and interesting photographs....... we entered the ball of fire up the escalator into a world of discovery - volcanoes - earthquakes - we found the earthquake simulator and were 'earth quaked' (slightly tame compared to the real one I was in in Peru) we wandered through the building looking for the great hall there was just so much to look at and the building itself is just fantastic.  I got a bit carried away in the stuffed bird section and thought the whale display was fabulous. By the time we got to the science museum we had a very serious case of museum leg... museum b...

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 ...