With over nine countries all with year round surf, Europe is as diverse for its surf breaks as it is for its food, culture and languages. During the summer months, when the North Atlantic storms drift away and the surf decreases in size, many surfers dust off their longboard or longer, longboard and go in search of those classic summer sessions. After hours of pondering, debating and a lot of dreaming Errant Surf Holidays has listed 8 waves you must surf on a longboard this summer!
1) Starting in the far North. Skaill Bay on the west coast of Orkney is a classic wide, deep bay with a right hand point break on one side and a left hand point break on the other. During the summer months don’t expect much darkness, it doesn’t get dark till about midnight and then it is light again at 5am!
2) Brandon Bay in Ireland is a real Irish gem for catching those long distant ocean swells. This big crescent shaped bay is a mal riders dream on those late sunset surfs before hitting the pub for a cold Guinness.
3) The quite sister to Fistral Bay in Newquay is Crantock Bay, if you get the chance during the peak of the summer for a dawnie or sunset surf you will not be disappointed. Some of the UK’s top longboarders can be seen in force at high and low tide ripping the long peeling waves.
4) Home to many past World Longboard events, the Grande Plage in Biarritz is the home of European longboarding. Perfect mal waves cruise in, peeling along a number of sand banks up and down the beach. A cool place to take the campervan down and hang out. Don’t expect to surf alone during the summer!
5) At the end of an overnight ferry from the UK and you can find yourself in the warm waters of Spain, and better still head 15 minutes East and you will stumble across Somo Beach. This beach also called Loredo, has three miles of sandbanks ideal for longboarding. If that wasn’t enough at the Eastern end of the beach is the right point break Santa Marina. You will also find Errant Surf Holidays La Hosteria de Latas 300m back from the beach.
6) Ribeira d’IIhas may be a handful to pronounce but the long right hand waves are too enticing to just sit and watch. This classic set up in Ericeira, is likened to Bells Beach in Australia! Pack you bags!
7) Fancy going left? Lagido in the Peniche offers a fun; fast take off over rocks before slowing down and rolling towards the beach. The best thing about Lagido, is the fact that if the wind blows onshore, get out walk 300m across the sand spit and surf a super fun beach break which will be offshore, good stuff!
8) Sure everyone knows about Mundaka in Spain and the long, mind bending lefts it offers. But what about Barbate in Southern Spain? This right hand point break is located just south of Cadiz. A fun summer spot, that gets better and better as the winter draws in!
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