Sometimes you have to wonder how some people got into surfing. Landlocked. 15 hours to the nearest beach which lies in a sea with very infrequent waves. Cold weather, cold water, even the cost of equipment. These are some seriously dedicated people. They have seen an ideal they admired, and decided no matter what…
Vowels, vowels, vowels! That’s what it’s all about. The way the vowels are used give a language its distinct difference. Some languages like their words ending in vowels to make it flow and others don’t. 99% of languages hold a balance in most words of usually 2 vowels together sometimes 3 but not more…
How many experiences have you had or heard of that had to do with superstition? Strangely considering our lack of belief of unexplainable occurrences people act irrationally on the principle of a superstition, and as there are many and different for different cultures we take a look today at many of the strange occurrences…
There’s something about Rome that you won’t experience while travelling through many great European cities. It’s timeless. Your experience starts as you make your way to the centre of town in whatever transport you have chosen. From the outskirts of the city you can see the timelessness of Rome. The Italian villas and the…
Many years ago while on a surfing trip through the northern parts of Spain, some locals invited us to a local fiesta. This fiesta is not much talked about but it was extraordinary, and it follows a theme that I did know about Spain. Fiestas with strange but interesting activities, like the running of…
Maybe not many of you will remember the famous words sung by Australian Crawl “Oh Errol, I will give anything just to be like him!” (lyrics from Errol by Australian Crawl, written by James Reyne and Guy McDonough). The boys from the great Australian surf rock band were singing about the life of their…
Midsommarafton as it is known in Swedish or Midsummer’s Eve is a magic time in Sweden. If you are visiting for the first time the first thing that you will notice around this time is the light hours in the day. The sun goes down at more or less 11pm and is gone until…