Fuerteventura - The Jewel of the Spanish Canary Islands: The Land of Eternal Summer

With virtually the same climate as Florida and Mexico, Fuerteventura is like an all over tonic where you can't help but feel the stresses and strains of a North European winter disappearing over the horizon with the setting sun. For clouds and rain imagine a seamless stretch of sapphire blue with 360 days of sunshine per year; for the fumes of traffic torment think clean ocean breeze from a coastline never far away; for industrial hi-rise cities picture sugar cube villages and tiny fishing hamlets. There are a total of 152 beaches offering something for everyone. Some are wild and lonely, like something out of Robinson Crusoe, while others bustle with tourist action. The landscape of Fuerteventura is the total opposite of its near neighbour (Lanzarote) and most visitors cannot believe that the beaches stretch for mile after mile with golden sands and dunes - no black sand or volcanic rock - just endless beaches in a colourful Andalusian like architectural landscape of peach, red, and yellow houses that combine to provide a colour backdrop to this island which is undoubtedly deserves its reputation as the 'Jewel of the Canary Islands' where you cab bask in a 'Land of eternal summer'.