Unbelievable… 21 countries down, many with some of the worst reputations in the world, the AfricanSurfer crew have finally arrived in London, England. After surfing too many unridden perfect waves in central and west Africa the crew have decided that life is not all about nature, surfing, meeting interesting people and generally following their dreams. [...]
3 Comments27 March 2007 – Cape Town, South Africa The sun is setting over the idyllic waters of Camps Bay, as our surfboard-laden 1981 Toyota Landcruiser pulls out of the driveway and sets out North along the N7 highway. Destination: London. Timeframe: 6 months Bye-bye Camps Bay, 27 March 2007… 27 March 2008 – Fes, Middle [...]
5 Comments“You know,” Jakke the Belgian Hippy said as we stood on the rocks at the end of Imsouane Point, “when you look at this from here, it’s really just a big playground”. The ocean in front of us was full of bearded travellers on single-fin longboards, Germans on fishes, grandfathers on twin-fin eggs, and Swedish [...]
8 Comments“Easter… c’est quand le bunny arrive est cacher le oeuf cholocat!!!” (Easter… it’s when the bunny comes and hides the chocolate eggs!!!) We were sitting around a low-slung table in the middle of the Vagabond cafe and I was jokingly trying to explain (complete with flapping bunny-ear hand movements) to our new surfer friend, Juan, [...]
6 CommentsHere’s two things you may or may not already know about the medieval Moroccan city of Marrakech: 1) Someone told us that the name is derived from the arabic ‘marra’ meaning something along the lines of ‘walk’, and ‘kech’ meaning ‘sleep’, together referring to the city’s original status as a stopover point for travelling traders. [...]
6 CommentsYodit Eklund is a valuable girl. Sure, we were impressed by her Berkley education, the fact that she is solidly multi-cultural (Ethiopian, French, American & Swedish) and her surfit of creative ideas, but it was when we were strolling with her through the Medina here in Casablanca on the weekend that we realised her true [...]
5 CommentsA good few months back now, while on the road in Mali, we bumped into and blogged about a biker called Alan. So while we were driving North up the West coast of Africa in search of the perfect wave, Alan was riding South in search of the perfect cup of tea. We were wondering [...]
1 CommentSheez, anybody know what day it is today anyway?!! It’s been a positively mad last 48 hours. In fact I think I need to stabilise myself on the wall as I type this, hold on… OK that’s better. Between when we stepped into the Cruiser on Friday afternoon in Taghazout, and stepped out on Saturday [...]
4 Comments“it was a present for my 40th birthday… apparently it cost EUR600″ We all stood a little dumbstruck, staring blankly at Gert for a moment as if he’d just been beamed down from a spaceship in the sky above the campsite. We weren’t sure whether to be more shocked by the fact that this man [...]
2 CommentsYour nominations got us to the finals – now it’s time to VOTE! Like Barack Obama storming the walls of the old order in the US Democratic primaries, AfricanSurfer.com has just vaulted into the stratosphere of the blogosphere. Thanks to the numerous heartfelt nominations from our devoted readers we’ve made it through to the finals [...]
3 CommentsHide-and-seek with nature is no easy game, but searching for waves, it’s fun all the same. Green shrubs peak out as the sandplains give way, goodbye Sahara, we’ll meet another day. Over fields through rivers, we must be getting warmer, so why when we look, it’s around the next corner? If the ocean could talk [...]
1 CommentA couple of months ago we scooped our first South African magazine feature in Zigag, Africa’s premier surfing journal. Now it’s the turn of the diesel-heads to get their fix of the AfricanSurfer expedition. The March issue of SA 4×4 magazine features a glorious 5-page spread of Patrick Cruywagen’s experience travelling with the crew in [...]
0 CommentsThere’s a Moroccan saying that translates to: “Those who do not travel do not know the good of men”. The phrase has been on my mind for a couple of months so it is fitting that its meaning has become real for me here in the land of its origin. We began our second effort [...]
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