Lanzarote - Up, out and return.

Last look at the villa before we head off

With all the kit in the cars it was a bit tight

Farewell look at Famara, "thats where I want to go next time" James

Sam and Lisa think back over a full on week

Cirrus streaming in from the west, a change in the weather maybe??

Our last day of this trip and with a late flight booked we hoped to make the most of it. Everyone was up early and we were cleared out by 10.00 from our lovely villa which had done us proud for the week. A final heat on the egg comp saw Mark consolidate his lead and take the trip title as Master Boiler.

We headed straight to Mala under a lovely sky with some nice looking cumulus and plenty of sunshine, it was already 23 C at 11.00. On arrival the first Paraglider launched and I was quick to follow into what turned out to be lifty if bouncy conditions. Sam, James and Mark all quickly followed and it was not long before we were all thermalling up nicely. Things continued to improve lift wise and soon we were all well over 1000' above launch and spreading out over the flats towards the coast.

James had a stonking flight heading up the coast he found good lift and climed to 2000' ato gliding past Arrieta and onto the next village where he looked like landing before hooking a nice thermal enabling him to come all the way back, his first "out and return flight". I ended up just short of cloudbase waving at the inbound airliners as they went by whist Sam and Mark swanned around. The guys all landed at the bottom as the wind picked up at launch and I flew to the cafe on the beach after nearly two hours flying, where we met up for a coffee in the sun.

Back on top things where pretty breezy and the wind had backed to the north with convergence cloud setting in. We opted to give a second flight a miss and headed to the airport via Famara, just in case. Everything went fine on the return flights even arriving in the UK early so can't be bad.

A cracking trip with excellent weather, good flying, lovely villa, some super flying and great company. Everyone got a lot from it in there flying making it a good one for me, thanks guys. Special thanks to Kaz for giving it her all despite not being able to fly on doctors orders following a skiing knee accident, hopefully next time.

Talking of next time we do have some interest in another trip in February, anyone else up for it???