A seven days trip to Menorca (flying with Volotea from Genoa) from 24th to 31st of July 2017.
Rented a car with https://www.hiperrentacar.com/it/, asking for a Fiat Panda or similar, ended up with a huge Opel Meriva full optional and with just 450km. 220€. Nice car, but way too big to travel the narrow roads of Menorca.
I stayed in a room with bathroom and kitchen rented on AirBnb, in the outskirts of Ciutadella. Cheap (compared to average prices) triple room, 420€ for a week.
A trip of 4 days at the end of May, in Marina di Grosseto surroundings. Stay at “La villa sul mare”, B&B on the seawalk, cheap but nice.
First day spent in Feniglia, south of Orbetello. Long (10KM) sandy beach with a huge pine woods inland. You can rent a bike to ride through the woods.
You can park here your car https://goo.gl/maps/CLPavF3aRBH2 (max 5€/day). Yon can walk along the beach almost as long as you like, and encounter almost no one, except in the first hundred meters.
The middle section was really deserted, the water shallow.
You can find some sun shelter even in the middle of the beach. Sometime someone reach this zone too.
Walking toward west, i encountered a few nudists. Continue reading Tuscany: Maremma and surroundings
You can reach this beach by car, along a dirty road, in 5 minutes starting from El Cotillo and going North-East.
The water is shallow, it is windy but there are almost no waves. There is a sort of volcanic reef, that made the sea just like a pool. A very big one.
Continue reading Fuerteventura – Faro de El Tostón – El Cotillo
Los lagos beach is almost inside El Cotillo village. its a white sand beach, with calm waters and black volcanic rocks, with just a little wind.
Continue reading Fuerteventura – El Cotillo – La Concha – Los Lagos – Los Molinos
Ajuy beach is located on the west coast, almost midway between Jandia peninsula and El Cotillo. It is a black sand beach.
To get there you have to drive along a canyon and oasis, which are worth a quick visit.
Beach position and conformation keep the wind away. It is one of the hottest place i’ve found in fuerteventura.
Cofete is a large and wild beach located on the North coast of the Jandia peninsula. You only options to get there are a dirty road or paths.
By car it takes about 1 hour and more than 18km of dirty road from Jandia.
By bike you can follow the road to Cofete, then take the road below:
https://en.komoot.de/tour/11690376?ref=wtd
It leads you in the Burranco de Las Damas/Gran valle, up to a pass that separate the north from the south coast. You can even go there by foot, it is “only” an 11km walk back and forth.
If you decide to go there by bike, please note that is a difficult road. not dangerous, but depending on your skill, you may have to get off the bike for 2/4km of the total. At the top of the hill, you’re likely to find a strong wind. It rised my bike and moved it, so be careful. But 100m over the top everything gets easier.
Continue reading Fuerteventura Sur – Playa de Cofete (Mountain Bike)
Sotavento beach is located 15km north of Jandia, and it takes about 15 minutes to get there. Be sure to get there on a day/time you can watch the tide rising or ebbing.
Please note that is not – Faro de Punta Jandia.
This beach is reachable by foot from Jandia and Morro Jable. It is a long strip of sand that starts in Morro Jable, where it is very likely to find no wind, and continues for kilometers and get larger and larger. Next to the Jandia lighthouse it usually gets windy.
Continue reading Fuerteventura Sur – Matorral (Jandia) – Punta Jandia
You can reach this beach by car, in ten minutes from Jandia lighthouse. Just take the coast road heading north, and you’ll find a narrow road on your right, follow the sign “Mal Nombre”.
A dirty road, but you can go on it with almost any car. You can then walk for kilometers in each direction, and enjoy the scenery.