Water is a very good servant, but it is a cruell maister. William Bullein

Sand, sun and surf ... and an awful lot wind. My skin was sandblasted by the end of my five days of surfing.

Lanzarote is a desert surrounded by water, with a vulcanic scar slicing through the south of the island. It is a sureal landscape, somewhere between a desert and a moonscape.

It is also a famous landscape. If you are looking for a film location which portrays an austeer African coast you look to the north of Lanzarote and the beach and cliffs of Caleta de Farma. It even provided the backdrop for a James Bond film.