Rob,
Not sure what you mean by the Lanzarote reference. I will be spending a couple of weeks in La Gomera next January though.
Michael
Michael
Lanzarote is the world in the making: lunar landscape with tourists instead of cavemen (but I don´t know...) unless you get up very early in the morning. Spent around ten days there in the 70s doing a calendar for Glayva Liqueur - it was March, the UK was frozen, and Lanzarote was in the grip of a windstorm that came from the Sahara, about 60 miles to the right (East, for strict disciplinarians) and it was far too chilly for the girl to enter the sea. We had been promised the Med in August by the travel company that was part-sponsoring the venture. As with many things sent to try us, it got better after a couple of days. But I do now know how it feels to be inside a sandblast machine. Cleaned my spark plugs a treat...
La Gomera isn´t far away, in North American or Australian terms, and unless I´m confusing my islands, which is all too possible, I think it´s the isle where the "peasants" have developed a whistling kind of language/code - beats Morse and probably more romantic than semaphore.
Anyway, back to Lanzarote for a moment: I was tempted, for some God-forsaken reason, to shoot my non-commisioned things via an orange filter. It looked very dramatic, fiery and hell-like at the time, but died in the translation to transparency on lighbox. Seen one square, red, 6x6 representation of lava and you´ve seen 'em all! Yep, we all can be pretty dumb at times.
Have fun.
Rob C