By now we should have been in France!
We are - in fact - still in Fuerteventura!
We spent ten days as planned here:- quite a bit of business, several very pleasant sessions with old friends and very little sunbathing! The weather was very disappointing for a week:- in fact on many days it was better in UK! Amongst the more interesting events was discovering the theft of a saddle etc from one of our bikes stored in the communal garage. We then saw it under a pile of bike parts in another parking space. Thus we embarked on our first engagement with the Spanish practice of "denouncing"! We confronted the neighbour with that parking spot, e-mailed the administrator (Ruth's denouncing Spanish coming on a treat!) and contacted our community's president.
In the last few days the weather improved, but news did not! Yesterday we realised we were going to have a problem or two if we went as planned to Girona to pick up a car with only a third of a tank of diesel and drive to Perpignan. Catalunya was being cited as one of the worst-hit areas for diesel shortage, and the crossings to France had horrendous tailbacks. This is all related to the lorry drivers' strike over fuel. There is talk of a general strike and food shortage. Nonetheless we packed, cleared foodstuff and had a farewell meal. This morning we checked the situation and decided an hour before the planned departure that we couldn't risk it!
So here we are, sitting it out in rather comfortable conditions with no particular place to go! Watch this space!