Puertito de los Molinos

Ducks wander between the restaurant tables, and on a windy day the Atlantic throws its waves right over the top of the cliffs. Puertito de los Molinos is little more than a cluster of old fishermen's houses at the back of a black pebble beach, weathered and in places run-down, built in a style that has gone from the rest of the island's coast.

Climb onto the clifftops for the view down over the roofs and the bay. Two restaurants serve food and drinks: one close to the car park, the other along the pebble beach, reachable only when the tide is out. At low tide the sea cave opens up for a look inside.

• There is no phone signal and no internet in the hamlet. Download maps and sort out plans before you drive in.
• The second restaurant is reached along the pebble beach and only at low tide, so check a tide table before you set off.
• The sea cave can only be entered at low tide, and the returning water cuts it off. Keep an eye on the time.
• There is no drinking-water point nearby; bring your own.
• The ground is pebble beach and uneven, and the entrance is not wheelchair accessible.

You arrive by car: there is no bus stop nearby. The free car park sits about 135 m in a straight line from the hamlet, and a second parking area lies around 2 km away. From the car park one of the two restaurants is a short walk. The other lies further along the black pebble beach, and the way to it is open only at low tide, when you walk over the stones at the foot of the cliffs.

Best: at low tide, when the sea cave can be entered and the beach to the second restaurant is passable; late afternoon on a clear day, when the sun goes down over the Atlantic in front of the houses.

Avoid: high tide, if the cave or the beach restaurant is the reason you came.

The tide decides what you can reach here, and a rough, windy day trades the cave for waves breaking over the clifftops, best watched from well back.