Fuerteventura of OldOlivia Stone devoted the penultimate three chapters of her travel diary to Fuerteventura, amounting to about sixty pages, a small portion of the thick volume, most of which was given over to Gran Canaria. In the opening paragraph of the Fuerteventura section, she described her arrival in Corralejo and I was confronted with a very different Corralejo to the one I knew.
I had heard holidaymakers comment that the town wasn't what it was back in the 1980s, but Olivia Stone forced me to picture what the place would have been like a hundred years before that. Every resident of Corralejo, then a tiny 'cluster of huts', came to watch a sailing boat drop anchor in the harbour. 'Not a multitude', Olivia said. A smattering then, of bemused and curious villagers wondering who was
