Saturday morning dawned with a flawless clear sky, the sun was peaking over the horizon and it felt like time to take the skateboard to the streets. As this was my first proper go, I decided to play safe and go somewhere flat and with a clearly marked cycle path, separate from the road as traffic takes no prisoners...
I met with Carl at 8am by the same harbour beach at Oceanside as on Monday and chatted through how the previous day had gone and whether I’d been able to practice the pop-up. We got suited up, which in my case was rather gingerly as I’d got a bit crispy in the sun the previous day – I...
So we’d done boogie boarding, what could we do next? Well short answer is we did nothing else – at least not immediately. Living where we did near Edinburgh, it didn’t occur to us that surfing or boogie boarding would be available close to home and the simple fact is that we never looked for it either. We just...
In December 2012 we’d decided that for once we would forego the annual round turkey, mince pies, tree decorating and family get togethers and try doing Christmas abroad. As we’d had a such a great time in 2009 we plumped a return to America to see what a Stateside Yuletide was like. With the vastness of the...
Despite knowing that we really enjoyed surfing it was over a year before we tried it again, this time, much closer to home. I’d come across the Coast to Coast surf school when they had a pop-up tent in St Andrew’s Square in Edinburgh as part of an event to showcase local companies who offered coaching on...