Surfing Peniche | Portugal

Travels > Surfing Peniche | Portugal

Just returned in May 2008 from 4 days in Peniche, a reasonably sized fising town just an hour's drive North of Lisbon

The town is perched on a peninsula and, hence grabs the Atlantic Swells and waves on both coasts.

We were celebrating Alex's 40th and Greg, Toby, Sam, Stig and Alex were present.

Arriving in Lisbon we stacked the boards and bags into a hire car and motored off to the north in greying skies and falling rain.

We get to Peniche, unload our bags and wander to the seafront to find food. Within minutes we are sitting in a deserted but traditional fish restaurant ordering beer and wine, sampling their Olives and Fish Pastes and marvelling that they had England V Portugal from the Euro 2004 playing on the TV on the wall.

I will never get round to writing a whole page about our surf trip ( my first ) so I will just whack up some images and explain that Peniche was lovely, we had great company, superb food and just enough wine and beer.:
The waves were big enough to surf on but not too big to totally knacker me out. Now I am ready for more....

Peniche Photo Shoot (Sam Images )by Los Tubos Toby
Peniche Photo Shoot (All Images ) by Los Tubos Toby

if the 'girl on the orange board' wants to contact me she is very welcome to email me using the form here..

Feeback on My Surfing

Sam why are you standing in the shallow surf waying you arms around? Are you directing traffic?
J Woodcock

I especially like the shot where you're doing an impression of a clock face reading 'a quarter past seven' - Point Break here you come!
J Blythe

It's a pretty sad state of affairs when you have to try and deceive your friends like this.
M Quarendon

Hi Dude i thought you said you went surfing! Not skim boarding. lol
N Milburn

It looks like Pamela Anderson or the Hoff.....can't be you mate.. you were never that good in the SBS.
S Rice

Whoever he is he's a bit of a p**f having to wear a wetsuit in Portugal in May ??
E Deslandes

Is the board meant to me 6 inches under the water??
L Littlewood

Hold on, give me a second.... I'll attach a recent photo of me with Jessica Alba sitting on my face....
M Phillips