EASY TRAVEL
Flights to Lanzarote were a mere £50 for the outbound with ‘EasyJet’ and we opted for speedy boarding which gives two items of hand luggage onboard. Windsurfing equipment was an extra £42 per board bag each way and one personal luggage up to 23 kilos was an extra £34 per journey. As always with these low cost airlines the extras all add up, but at least you know where you stand! After escaping the freezing snow in the UK at 7am, we landed in Lanzarote by 11am and were loaded into our car and on the road by 11:30! We decided to check into our apartment before hitting the beach and had to laugh when our room turned out to be round the back of the hotel facing a pile of junk and debris, easily on par with the horrific hotel from the ‘Inbetweeners’ movie in Magaluf! The view aside, we had clean beds to sleep in and were certainly not intending to spend too much time at the hotel if we could possibly help it. We were soon joined by our old mate, Corky Kirkham, who had caught the ferry from Fuerteventura to come over and sail for a few days. As soon as he heard we were coming there was no way he was going to miss out! Plus as a Canary Islands resident he is lucky enough to score the locals discount on all ferries and flights between the islands and Europe! At 51 Corky is still as keen on windsurfing as he was when I met him way back in 1990, which is awesome to see. He owns a small house close to Rocky Point in Fuerteventura, and works in a bar in the evening to help fund his lifestyle that still involves windsurfing every day possible!