Surfing Holidays to France and South Africa
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Our France Surf Holiday starts on 3rd September!!
08 months ago
We are very excited because our France Surf Holiday starts in less than a week! We travel to the Landes area of the Aquitane department of South West France. We stay in a campsite right by the beach at Seignosse, with lots of great facilites like an outdoor pool and WiFi. We surf world-class beach breaks nearby, and warm ourselves in the late summer sunshine on the mile and miles of sandy beaches…….. sounds bliss? It is!
If you’d like to join us at our surf camp we only have limited spaces left on our last week – 17/18 September to 24/25 September. This one week is from as little as £369 pp/pw…with all this included:
- campsite accommodation close to the waves (spacious tents and comfortable airbeds provided)
- nutritious breakfasts/lunches at our surf camp
- 3 healthy home-cooked dinners and/or barbeques (vegetarians/vegans or special dietary requirements catered for)
- professional surf coaching and advice to help you learn and improve your surf skills at no extra charge
- fully accompanied surfing holidays with our UK-based & Surfing GB qualified surf coaches and tour guides
- large marquee on our campsite pitch for group meals and socialising
- daily transport to the beach, supermarket and shops in our surf tour minibus
- trips out to other quality surf breaks nearby
- use of our range of beginner and improver surf boards
- access to all the photos and videos taken of your holiday
- airport transfers each way (Biarritz airport)
See our website for all the holiday details www.globalsurfadventures.co.uk or Contact us by phone on 07967 379939 or email us – surfadventures@live.co.uk
8 weeks till France surf trip
02 years ago
Its only 8 weeks to go till our next surf holiday!
We will be driving the minibus down from Newquay to Portsmouth on the 7th September. We cross the English Channel to Le Havre by ferry. We then drive down to Seignosse near Hossegor in South West France The journey is about 700 miles!
It’s very picturesque, passing through some amazing French regions, past the towns of Nantes, Niort, Bordeaux, and down to Seignosse.
This topFrench location is in the region of Landes. The area has an interesting history, and was not always so welcoming! The Landes region is flat and the soil is uniformly sandy. One hundred years ago, the land was a boggy swamp filled with disease and the coastline was unstable.
The law imposed by Emperor Napoleon III in 1857, ordered all the communes of Gascogne Landes, not just the coastline, be drained and then planted with maritime pines, making the land useable and rich. Bit by bit, pines covered Les Landes, changing the landscape and reducing the expanse of more than 100,000 hectares of moors. This made room for the young forest that would become one of the largest industrial forests in Europe. The dunes were also created to protect the newly recovered land from the sea.
Today the region is really beautiful; made up of large plantations and a coastline of flat sandy beaches, backed by large shifting sand dunes which are nature conservation areas.
All this work means that we can reach all those surf breaks along the coast, and we can enjoy the land of Landes too!
If you’d like to join us click on the link to the right ‘Book a surf trip to France’ to see full holiday details.
Global Surf Adventures surf in France
03 years ago
Today West Coast Surfari and the Global Surf Adventures tours set off from Newquay heading for the beautiful surfing beaches of Seignosse in South West France. From the 9th to 29th September they will be exploring and surfing the many beach breaks along the south Landes region coastline.
The surfing forecast shows big swells over the coming days, so we are looking forward to hearing about their surfing adventures!
Keep in touch with their surfing experiences here with daily updates and pictures.
