Fuerteventura suits surfers
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Everything about the sun-soaked Canary Islands, which could be added to the UK's 'green' list from May 17 thanks to its low Covid rates and effective vaccine programme, always seems to feel bigger and brighter.
I’ve paid the Spanish islands a visit at least once a year since I was a teenager, and the enormity of the place always strikes me, whether that is while gazing up at the pineapple-top foliage of the palm trees around the hotel pool, gawping at the human-dwarfing size of the rainforest’s evergreen ferns, or running, grinning, down the dunes, my heels spraying golden sand in my wake.