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.