We converse over the laws of nature and North Sea surfing, it is certainly not the promised land of endless barrels and we talked non stop, on the Thursday toured cultural and culinary delights, German Beer, Curry wurst , Rhine River sunset beer o‘clock , we went to the Neandertal Museum and met people older than me who I might have played rugby against, but as one of my interests is paleo anthropology this old fossil felt right at home there and also at Oldie‘s home there was much discussion around a laden table.
Outside BBQ Aussie style ,but evidentially German style too.
We dissolved any stereotypes we might have of one another, and I am sure a strong friendship formed family to,family.
Saturday we drove to Scheveningen in Holland to surf the North Sea swells, half metre at 6 seconds with a 5seconds and a 7 seconds running over or under each other, consider too that the 7000 windsurfers were striving. for these waves in their separate areas, it was a challenge.
You will notice on the horizon the plague cruise ships moored, maybe they will rust and sink making an offshore surf reef!
Because often hospitality of Oldie I was able to add the North Sea Holland as another surf destination .
Surprisingly the water was pleasantly warm and surprise surprise, through the chaos of the waves I was able to stand up. first time in a long time,
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The pier at the other end of Scheveningen you can Bungey jump right into the take off zone and have a Hollandisch sunset beer.
Next day to another Northsea surf spot towards Belgium and Oldie explained this was a deteriorating surf quality zone and he knows his forecast stuff , it was!
So we watched the surfschools and had a great lunch, then drove back to Germany, It is obvious how surf blessed the coast of Australia, the USA and tropic islands are, from the southern end of the English Channel to southern Spain and Portugal the odds favour the surfer more and more.
Full respect to any Mid European land locked surfer who endures so much to get to reasonable waves.
I have a place for Oldie and his family to come and experience our local river wave.
hopefully Spring and post virus
Meanwhile memories of Beer o‘clock on the Rhine
So much thanks to Oldie and his family and Jimmy the spaniel for his awesome hippo wrestling during surf videos
Recommendation ´; try and meet up with like minded others in the forum, it will be worth it
. I can only recommend offline exchange between forumites where possible.! We were lucky - one day after our trip North and South Netherlands was declared risk zone for COVID-19 by GY with mandatory testing and quarantine until a negative result - puh.
