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Follow this link to the Analogue section.
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Mediterranean Hibernation
EP 2.2 THE Swell: Locals said this was the best swell in five years.
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Mediterranean Hibernation
EP 2.1 Stranded in western Liguria
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Sydmolen 2022
Flashback to a good old fashioned windsurfing trip to Denmark in late summer.
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Nordsjøvegen 2022 part 4: beach days
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Nordsjøvegen 2022 - part 3: mostly mountains
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Nordsjøvegen 2022- part 2:
mixed outdoor sports
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Nordsjøvegen 2022
Part 1: mostly windsurfing.
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Another episode from the Iceland blog featuring an excursion into a non-aquatic wonderworld, starting with the part that was supposed to be just a sidekick on the way but turned out to be an absolutely mind-blowing landscape.
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The Pandemic – Episode 5 – Getaway
For once, the Cote d´Azur turned out to be the perfect refuge.
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Cocaine
Here we go with the last episode of the Me(d)thadone series.
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North Sea Ghosting
a strange experience with a seemingly brilliant swell forecast
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La Tarte Tropézienne
Episode 13 of the Me(d)thadone series proves that even the bay of Saint Tropez occasionally has something special on offer.
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Larry´s pulse
Autumn season 2021 at the Danish North Sea coast started with an extraordinary hurricane created low frequency groundswell.
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Heritage
Episode 12 of the Me(d)thadone series features the many riches of the Cinque Terre part of the Ligurian coast.
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Some winter days at the Med with points and slabs and rain and engine failures and a few beach break waves.
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Flashback into (pre-pandemic) mid-winter at the Mediterranean Sea with episode 11 of the Me(d)thadone series: Southwest
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The Smell of Rotten Fish
You don´t mind about a bit of stench as long as it is windy and warm at the Danish North Sea coast.
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Iceland - Episode 15, New Dimensions:
Just when I thought that I had seen everything, late summer delivered a string of extraordinary days.
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It´s already 2021 and still a pandemic but I finally got my North Sea surfing life back (almost)!
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2020 - Episode 3 - The End Of The World (part 3, surf´s up!)
Features some of the better days of this year.
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Iceland - Episode 14: You should have been…….
When visiting friends “luck” into a period with bad surf but still return home stoked.
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Winter days on Sardinia
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Is this as good as it gets at the Med?
Episode 9 of the Me(d)thadon series tries to give an answer.
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2020 - Episode 3 - The End Of The World (part 2, lazy summer days in Breizh)
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2020 - Episode 3 - The End Of The World
Features some of the better days of this year.
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2020 - Episode 1: The Calm (before the storm)
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Portuguese Winter, Episode 10b: Biscay stopover – the sunny days
Some hints why they build Rhino chaser boards in the areas facing the Bay of Biscay..
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Portuguese Winter, EP10a: Biscay stopover – the gloomy days
Ugly late winter weather but good surf in Cantabria
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Who doesn´t feel Saudade when having to leave Portugal?
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EP08: Surf & The City – part 2
Do these Lisbon dudes know how lucky they are?
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Fun Days
The Mediterranean way of enjoying winter.
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There are still some stories to be told from that winter at the Med.
Episode 6 of the Me(d)thadon saga features some average days on Sardinia that look quite desirable in hindsight.
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EP08: Surf & The City – part 1
The pleasures of the fine architectural and maritime art of Lisbon
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Episode 7 of the Portuguese Winter series is about the ever repeating pattern of realizing that one should have been somewhere else at another time.
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Episode 13 of the Iceland blog features a period of the journey that felt like a surf trip.
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Northbound – part 2: The sunny part of the trip to Iceland´s far north.
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Northbound: Episode 12 of the Iceland blog leads into the fjords and peninsulas reaching into the Greenland Sea and some exciting unknown territory.
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Episode 10 of the Iceland blog has a bit of everything: surf, bike, hike, all in the closer vicinity of Reykjavik
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Episode 9 of the Iceland blog features a semi-successful search for waves at the Fickle East Coast of the island.
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Norte
episode 6 of the Portuguese Winter series is about beautiful winter waves and a stunning city in northern Portugal
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Portuguese Winter, episode five:
The Algarve Myth
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Days of Thunder – Epilogue
Episode 4 of the Portuguese Winter series features a string of average Atlantic winter days.
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Pigs and Eagles part 3 – The Reward
Less pigs, more eagles and finally some surfable waves
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Wicked Numbers - Wednesday
A day for the books - part 2: “Cold Hawaii” finally living up to its (brand) name.
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Wicked Numbers – Wednesday
A day for the books - part 1: You can look but not touch
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Wicked Numbers – Tuesday
The first low frequency pulses of an exceptional swell arriving at the eastern North Sea shores.
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Cruisy days at the North Sea.
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Another episode from the Me(d)thadone series:
Pigs and Eagles part 2 – The Search
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Hello Autumn! (part 3)
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Hello Autumn! (part 2)
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Hello Autumn!
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What´s the point of looking for surf in tiny seas?
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Bread and Butter
EP03 – Baltic Heat
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Bread and Butter
EP02 – Less wind, more surf, too many people
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Bread and Butter
EP01 – Early summer sailing
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Pigs and Eagles, Part 1:
Episode 03a of the Me(d)thadone series features a few days in Corsica´s fantastic mountains.
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Episode 8 of the Iceland Saga, South Coast Exploration
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More Portuguese Winter stories:
EP03 Days of Thunder - Nazaré, January 18th, 2018
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Portuguese Winter
EP02 Days of Thunder – Nazaré, January 17th, 2018
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Portuguese Winter
EP01 Days of Thunder – Prologue
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Mediterranean Chances – part 3
Sometimes you win (sort of) - Liguria
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Mediterranean Chances – part 2
Sometimes you win (sort of) - Tuscany
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Mediterranean Chances – part 1
Sometimes you lose – sort of
Finding surfable waves on Corsica was and will always be a challenging task.
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Episode 6 of the Iceland Saga
features the beautiful southern coastal part of the island
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Searching for Point Perfect.
Just out of curiosity I checked the forecast for Norway’s south coast too in case some remnants of this massive swell would reach these shores too.
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Northeast
Another tale from a pretty satisfying autumn at the North Sea.
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Episode 2 of the Me(d)thadone series: Dolce Vita
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Nice: a weekend at the North Sea
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Episode 1 of the Me(d)hadone series: Brigitte don´t surf
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Episode 4b of the Iceland Saga covers a couple of intense hours spent at an impressive waterfall in the desert and a place that does not seem to belong to earth.
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Episode 4(a) of the Iceland Saga is about a road trip along the East Fjordsup to the north facing parts of the island.
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Episode 5 of the Me(d)thadon story features the days after the storm
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A Danish Surf Holiday.
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Iceland Saga, Episode 3:
The Search – Southeast.
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Episode 2 of the Iceland Saga:
Amazed and Confused
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EP04(c) Genoa Low – the aftermath
features a day of surf in the Med that would have been an excellent day of surf in any “real” ocean too.
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EP04(b) Genoa Low – the peak
The peak of the low delivered two days of world-class windsurfing and an hour of pretty good Pipeline imitation on Sardinia.
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Here we go with the first episode of the Me(d)thadon experience:
Genoa Low - the build up features some astounding waves in the build up of a mighty Genoa low.
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Part 1 of the Presqu´ ile story: Finis Terra
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Iceland Saga, Episode 1, 50 Shades Of Green covers the stopover at the Faroe Islands on the ferry ride to Iceland.
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Episode 5 of the Iceland Saga is about plans that changed
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Here´s a first episode from the (ongoing) Iceland trip:
Summer Swell
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Part four of the Green Grass story included a change of the coast and two pleasant days at England’s southwest.
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Part 3 of the Green Grass story.
The North Sea kept delivering.
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More green grass and other nice things from the other side of the pond.
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The grass is always greener - part 1
A day as good as it can get at the North Sea.
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Flashback into 2008: Size (not always) matters!
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North Sea Swell Chase - part 2:
Who cares about the absence of colours
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North Sea Swell Chase, part 1.
Friday 13th Armageddon and the sunny day after.
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Ré-fuge
Chapter Five of the “Golden October” story: looking for shelter in Charente Maritime
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Sal, Cabo Verde, February 2016
Well, in the end, it turned out to be better than we feared....
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Out of Synch.
Dealing with the tricky swell mechanics of the Kattegat.
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Another story from the summer of 2016:
Therapeutic Surfing
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Transition times
Early September is the time when you start to realize that the days become remarkably shorter up in the north.
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Delightful Monotony
Warning: This is not about an adventure.
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Another story from the analogue times:
The Morocco Diaries – 1995
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The Jungle, A Great War, British plumbing, tricky tides and other oddities.
A condensed journey through European and British past, present and – hopefully – not the future.
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Summer of 2016, July 15th to 17th, Denmark, west coast.
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Chapter Four of the Golden October story: Sightseeing at the French Basque Country coast.
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23°51'0" S and 113°31'1" E
That’s just a few numbers and letters >>>
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Bad Bank? Good Bank!
Banks are bad. All banks? No, there is a good bank in Denmark!
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A Mad Monday at the Baltic Sea
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Sick days at the Med:
The rest.
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Sick days at the Med:
Day three was pretty epic.
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Sick days at the Med:
Days one and two
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Chapter Three of the Golden October story:
Cantabrian Relaxation
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Roadtrip to Denmark:
Chris Hafer and Flo Söhnchen went for some wavesailing in the north.
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The Cantabrian part of an odyssey through southern Europe in autumn 2014
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Another one from the analogous past:
The Underground - November 2005
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Chapter Two of the Golden October story:
Basque Timings
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Not XXL but extra long: 40 seconds on a wave in the Basque Country.
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Welsh Moods.
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Golden October
Chapter One: Ré-velation
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Scala:
Tribute to an almost forgotten film.
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A Busy Sunday at the Baltic Sea.
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5 Friends
went to Cornwall
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Två Oceaner - Part 2, the Kattegat
Business as (here) usual.
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Två Oceaner - Part 1, the Baltic Sea
I must have driven into sort of a wormhole within the time-space continuum......
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Just another windy day at the Baltic Sea.
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No Complaints
The nordic summer isn´t that bad this year.
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1991 - Puerto Rico
The first stage of the trip to North America in 1991.
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Big Day - Small Day
A summer storm shook the Baltic Sea and provided a Big Day for the windsurfers and a Small Day for the surfers at the German Baltic Sea coast. All of them had plenty of fun!
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More vintage stories:
The intro to a 6 months trip through North America in 1991 plus a gallery of selected photos.
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New Horizons:
A story about an overdue trip to southern Sweden
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Baltic Sunday:
The little pleasures of our Baltic backyard.
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More from Morocco:
This time from way back in the analogous times.
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Moulay:
Chris Hafer and Flo Soehnchen had a good time in Morocco.
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Yucatan:
Another story from the analogous times.
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Math:
the result of tricky calculations of a North Sea groundswell.
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Christobal
Ex-hurricane Christobal had managed the transition across the North Atlantik without losing too much strength......
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Action Selfie 10 B.G.
Little story in the analogous sestion about how I did windsurf selfies back in the days before GoPro
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Part 2 of the ode to fall in Cornwall.
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Baltic Heat:
Relieve at a hot day.
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More from the Fuerte Diary.
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Morbihan 8 - 8: once again this beautiful area was worth visiting.
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It doesn´t get any better. At least in this part of the Baltic Sea.
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