Wise choice - best climate in Spain!Can anyone help. Myself and my husband are thinking of relocating to Cran canaria. I have looked at the islands and was struck with fuerteventura. However there does not seem to be any Brtish schools in this area. My son is 6 and my daughter is 3. I am also a secondary school English teacher. I am planning a visit in April for 3 weeks...has anyone got any advice?
Thankyou
Adele
It's certainly an important question and its nice to know these things before you come over. We do have "a sticky" on the top of the forum page re - education here, which may help you??! http://www.expatforum.com/expats/spain-expat-forum-expats-living-spain/62551-education-spain.html
I would agree with that, after spending a couple of weeks in the desert-like, windy, sand blasted hell that is Fuerteventura, I flew across to the North of Tenerife and felt like I had just arrived in paradise.
I hear on the news that it snowed last night in Puerto de la Cruz!!
I have had 3 holidays on the island allways in summer but if you look closely at the islands name it gives you a big clue that it is a windy place, but still a lovely place
I have had 3 holidays on the island allways in summer but if you look closely at the islands name it gives you a big clue that it is a windy place, but still a lovely place
Yes Jo fuerte= place of strong wind ( and nothing to do with brussel sprouts!! ):eyebrows::eyebrows:
we had a windy night
It could be either - even the locals aren't sure!
The version I heard was that it was heavily afforested at one time, but the Spanish chopped all the trees down and failed to replace them, so the land eroded,dried out and turned into a virtual desert.
My most enduring memory of the landscape is the bright red backsides (and worse) on a colony of German nudists sunning themselves behind those stone windbreaks that look like sheep pens.The version I heard was that it was heavily afforested at one time, but the Spanish chopped all the trees down and failed to replace them, so the land eroded,dried out and turned into a virtual desert.
I recall driving around the barren landscape one day when suddenly I spotted a large green area on a hillside in the distance.
I thought great at least there is some decent growth and greenery after all.
However on getting closer I saw it was obviously not plant growth but simply the colour of the minerals in the rock.
My partner commented that they must have painted the hillside green to fool the goats into thinking there was actually something for them to eat.
Maybe they should just have fitted the poor sods with a pair of green specs each.
