Part 2 of my holiday story continues with a poolside drawing of the palms in the gardens at the hotel Barceló, Corralejo Bay on Fuerteventura.
Our evenings there were spent in the lounge bar listening to a variety of live bands. This is a Beatles tribute trio that came on as Status Quo in the second half without their wigs and completely different music.
The Abba band was very good at getting people up to dance, here are my favourites. The man is a handicapped German who danced alone every evening till someone went up to join him. I took a few turns too after these two lovely ladies went home.
Here are the group who entertained us so well.
We made some friends who we sat with some evenings, here is Derek while he was playing dominoes with the others.
This group played and sang and the girl in the middle also played the violin, at the request of one guest she did some amazing Irish folk music.
Some afternoons we sat on the terrace by the lounge instead of the pool as it was a bit sunnier later in the day being a level higher.
This was an amazing combination of Irish and Spanish dancing and music. The foot stamping is very similar and the accompaniment on the drum combined with the flautist excellent.
Hard to capture the movement but the main thing is to enjoy the moment and not worry about making mistakes.
On our last day the mist over Lanzarote cleared enough for me to draw it in detail in my coloured pencils on this gorgeous tinted Ingres paper.
Well, I hope you've enjoyed my little trip to Fuerteventura, we will definitely go back next year.
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