[ France
- November/ December `08 ]
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I had to drive a long way before i arrived
in Thonon in the middle of France at Mélanies place. From there
we started together our windsurf-trip to the Mediterranean. The
following 5 weeks we were searching for wind & waves... |
Méla in the car, La Madragues close to Almanarre,
Sundowner in the Camargue
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Our first stop was Hyeres, where the wind was waiting for us. We
could use 4.2 and 3.5 - but still overpowered! The Mistral was
blowing with full power! But only for one day - the next day the
wind dropped. So we had enough time to find a nice appartment
and to relax a bit in the sun. The next days the wind didn't
want to come back and so we were cruising around and visited
almost all beaches between Hyeres and Montpellier. |
Stucked on the beach in the Camargue...
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One highlight
was our trip to the Camargue. The Camargue is a very nice region
close to Montpellier with long empty beaches, flamigos and wild
horses! Especially in wintertime there are not many people in
this area, just a few fishermen and thats's it. The wind was not
strong enough to go on the water, but still we wanted to look at
a spot named "Beauduc". Our problem was that we didn't find the
correct way - so we tried to drive along the beach. After a few
kilometres our search was stopped and we stucked in the sand...
Mince alors! It took us about three hours to start again and
just before the sun went down we could reach the road again -
big luck, 'cause during the night it was fuckin' freezing!
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Surfing in Palavas, Partytime in Montpellier, La
Grande Motte
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The next days we spent in Montpellier, where Mélanie was
finishing her studies. We met some people, had some partys and a
nice time! One day in the late afternoon Mélanie could catch
some nice waves and had a good surfing-session with her
longboard in Palavas. The next day the wind came back - this
time from the south. At first we tried La Grande Motte close to
Montpellier, but the wind was to onshore. That's why we moved to
Le Boucanet, where we had a good session in the waves with
side-sideonshore conditions. |
Surfing in Le Boucanet, Eole
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The next day the
wind dropped again and just a bit surfing with a longboard was
possible. After some more days in Montpellier we moved to
Leucate, where we could live in an appartment close to the spot
Eole - one of the best freestyle spots at the Etang de Leucate! |
Eole/Leucate rocks!
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In Leucate we
spent the last two weeks of our holidays. There we had good wind
- sometimes enough for 3.5 again. So we had some really nice
freestyle sessions in Eole and a good time! Just at the end -
almost at x-mas - it was pretty cold and less fun to go on the
water again. Thats's why we moved to back Thonon, where we spent
one day in the mountains and i tried snowboarding for the first
time in my life before i was drinving back home to Germany the
next day.
So finally you can
say that we had a fuckin' nice trip through the south of France
with good conditions and enough adventure! Yuhaaaaa!
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Text: Mirco
Fotos: Mirco, Mélanie |