Surfing Holidays to France and South Africa
Lauren
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Taginetastic
13 years ago
Photo-Adam on Anchors
Last night Dan cooked an amazing vegetable Tagine over hot coals. It had lots of different veggies and local spices and was excellent. We sat around the open fire on the terrace of our apartment. The others cooked a fish Tagine, which was much loved by the local cats when pieces of it were thrown over the balcony to the wildlife below. This morning the terrace was cat central as they all licked their paws (and our terrace) clean of any fish remains. Better than a Dyson!
Today was much the same as yesterday, in that it involved surfing, eating and sunbathing, roughly in that order in rotation all day! It was a chilly start but another beautiful sunrise. As soon as the sun was up we got in the water for some waves on the back of Anchors beach break. It was 2-3 foot. We had some fun waves. Everybody enjoyed Dan’s porridge, which was the best so far. You wouldn’t think you can do different qualities of porridge, after all its just oats, water, milk (and a pinch of salt but don’t tell anyone Dan’s secret recipe!), but when 10 people are eating porridge every day they grade it on taste and consistency! Very amusing. Today’s was 5 star.
Later this morning people went out for some head high waves on Anchors, which were peeling perfectly down the point. Shame only the good shortboarders got most of them!
Shop till you drop
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Yesterday the wind dropped right off and the sea was glassy once more. We got up early for the dawny. Mystery Island was working on the small swell; chest high and glassy. Malc had some great waves, and avoided the rocks!!
It was another day of wall-to-wall sunshine. After breakfast some of the crew surfed Anchors.
After lunch al-fresco we headed for the weekly market at Banana village. It was a relaxed market with mounds of fresh produce; mouth-watering herbs, fruit and vegetables. It’s a really easy place to shop. Boys all around the market sell you carrier bags for 1Dhiram each. Each stall owner hands you a washing up bowl and you chose your produce, then they weigh it on those old-fashioned iron scales with kilo weights. We bought what looked like a weeks worth of veggies. Malc accompanied us and helped us by carrying our bags and making sure that the things in Dan’s backpack weren’t pilfered!
Later we stopped in Agadir for the usual order of slabs of beer from the Uniprix – we looked like the traditional Brits abroad carrying loads of beer from the supermarket and were quite relieved we had black carrier bags to hide our alcohol shame. We snuck home to drink them 
Mysteries working
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We have a full house now with all the guests arrived and settled in. We’ve got a good swell but the wind has been too strong for a really good surf, though everyone had a good time on the dawny this morning at Mysteries which is working this year again. The water is cooler than expected, a shortie is not recommended just yet.
Dan’s bike got its first outing into town with Jess at the helm. She sped into town despite the front tyre having a slow puncture, overtaking locals and slow-walking surfers at speed.
The newbies have cleared the Uniprix of all drinkable liquids pretty much as soon as they got here and are taking some time to re-hydrate. A good night was had by all.
This evening we’ll chill with some food on the terrace, and get up early for another dawny, which we expect to be 2ft and clean, followed by some serious sunbathing.
Morocco surf holiday
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Photo-The small strip of apartments along the world famous Anchor Point, Morocco
Photo-Our 2 adjoining apartments on Anchor Point, overlooking the waves.
We have arrived in Morocco! The apartments we are staying in are right on Anchor Point overlooking the point break. They are both nice and clean with good facilties. Both have good size living areas, good size comfortable, bedrooms and large terraces. The pink apartment has an open fire for BBQs and Tagine cooking. They catch all the daytime sunshine; ideal for sunbathing, and as they overlook the point you could spend all day watching surfers on the point! Today we have been enjoying the sunshine on the terrace. A new swell is due in the morning. Bliss!
