Furry Venture

In an attempt to help cosmolinguist escape the cold and dark, and as a distraction from US politics, I followed my friend liw's advice and booked a long weekend holiday in the sun. I looked on Lastminute.com and there were a number of inexpensive package holidays in the Canary Islands in January. So many in fact that I had a bit of decision paralysis, but we decided we didn't want anything fancy or with lots of activities - the whole point would be to lounge around in warm weather and longer days. So I picked a three-star resort with relatively few amenities in Fuerteventura. We flew out on Friday and back on Tuesday. The weather was a little overcast the first couple of days, but at 15C still much warmer than the frosty UK, and rising to over 20C with bright sunshine on the Sunday and Monday. The days were appreciably longer too, being near the equator.

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On the whole I think it was a good trip. While it couldn't completely distract E from the shit-show that is the world and various other things, lying tipsily in the sun absorbing photons and doing very little was definitely a nice break for us. I came back feeling re-energised towards a few projects, and while life has had a fair go at grinding me down since I got back I can still remember the dry sunny air of Fuerteventura.