janesadventures

Janes new adventures: Well,  the theme for new adventures this year is ‘Edge of the World’. It started with a trip to Fuerteventura at the end of February- a trip that had been planned for some time but happened to coincide with the arrival of the ‘beast from the east’. We left Newcastle airport a couple of hours before the storm landed and covered the north east with a huge blanket of snow. We arrived on the island to a temperature of 25 degrees and headed for a fishing village on the north west tip, on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean. It was lovely – quite wild and not a standard holiday destination, as Geoff said “wow, I feel like I’m on the edge of the world”. That first evening we decided to go in search of something to eat and found a very inviting Swiss bar offering home made cheese omelettes and Django Reinhardt as background music. Had a couple of beers, delicious omelettes and were about to leave when a voice said “oh darling – you’re English- please have a drink with u