A life-long friend
Where do we find ourselves in the good times, the bad times, the sad times and the all-round pretty crazy times? In the finest of times, it’s the ocean that leads me to the light…
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Board Shorts
An evening of surf-related short films by independent makers showing the rich variety in British surf culture went off in style down at Falmouth’s Tremough Campus Student Union earlier this November, while a frigid northerly wind blew a hoolie outside.
Onwards to India
Our final fortnight in Portugal was a blur of surf, fishing, barbeques, bonfires, good company and good bottles of wine, all crowned by three days of modest drives through Spain via the medieval university town of Salamanca to stormy Bilbao to await passage home aboard ‘The Pride of Bilbao’.
We love tea
Cornwall’s Mr T, aka Shayne House, has mastered his new Macbook and put together a lovely short film of Saturday’s little shindig. It made us chuckle…
The aftermath
The dust has settled, we’ve almost caught up on missed sleep, and all evidence of the Drift party has been cleared away. Well, almost all. Visitors to the Howies store in Bristol may notice a lingering aroma of beer…
Keep it local: Seed Surf Co.
Michael Koskela makes a superb cup of tea, but that’s not the only reason to pay this Cornish surf/skate emporium a visit… I swung by to check out the origins of a surf shop that really can claim to grow its own…
The Atlas of Water
Global warming conjures images of rising sea levels and further extreme weather events. But with a planet which is 70 per cent water, we forget that water is actually the scarcest commodity. Win this book here
SAS call for surfing reserves for Scotland
Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) are calling for the Scottish Government to help protect Scottish waves and include Surfing Reserves in the Marine Bill. The Surfing Reserves initiative will go before the Rural Affairs and Environment Committee of the Scottish Parliament to be debated on 25th of November.
