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Um Barco Nas Ondas

I’m pretty sure I’ve written about the pleasure I get from free DVDs now and again. I’m not talking about whatever movie the Mail on Sunday is using to persuade you to buy a copy of their paper because I never have, but about the DVDs which tend, on occasion, to come with watersports magazines. [...]

Back home.

I was back on the beach today because it was sunny and windy and because I wanted to see my friends. It was like coming home. It has been too long since I have heard the sound of the wind and today, even a few waves.
I was sick during the week – I’m not going [...]

I have a cute thing and I am going to use it.

Via twitter, sometime before Christmas, I discovered that there were such things as VW camper van shaped cookie jars. They are a product line by Animal. I like some of the Animal stuff; in particular I have a backpack which I bought in the surf shop in Lahinch about 8 years ago (I hadn’t wanted [...]

Escape from Pressure

Ages ago now, from the front of a windsurfing magazine, I got a free DVD called Escape from Pressure. It must have been 7 or 8 years ago, maybe 10. Before I started kitesurfing anyway. It was one of the best DVDs I ever got, even though it was free. It should be on MPORA [...]

And it’s official :-) Elle Paris says it so

Apparently, the look which suits my hair is “Le Look Wavy”. No, seriously, I did all the questions, in French, most of which I understood despite Elle being a fashion magazine and me not being a fashionista.
Le principe est simple, il suffit de laisser vos cheveux sécher à l’air libre… vous qui n’aimez pas les [...]

Bank holiday weather

So, according to windguru, we were looking at 20-25 knots off shore this morning. According to Dun Laoghaire, we were getting 8 SSE.
This is an exact combination of useless to me. The sun is in and out and in and out and in and out so much so that frankly it’s confusing me. The reality [...]

Music from the sea…

One of the handiest sources for DVDs is the front of surfing, windsurfing and kitesurfing magazines and a few years ago, windsurf handed my a free DVD called Escape from Pressure. You can download the film here.
Apart from the fact that it is one of the greatest windsurfing films made – I don’t think I [...]

Planning holidays

For reasons currently too convoluted to go into, my holiday plans have changed quite a bit and if you have me on Facebook or Twitter, you’ll know that I’ve spent the last few days trying to figure out how to get to Antigua.
It’s all Cabrinha’s fault. And Andre Phillip. It’s his fault more than anything. [...]

Kristin Boese is coming to Ireland.

And if you don’t kitesurf, you may not know who that is. Anyway, thanks to the genii at Pure Magic Kitesurfing and the Best Dealer Network, Kristin is coming to give a kite clinic for girl kitesurfers in Mayo. I knew she did stuff like this from time to time and was angling to plan [...]