Hints and tips:
...His hometown is renowned for a particular swell pattern that recurs right below us, where the Oka river flows out through the Urdaibai estuary and into the Bay of Biscay....
...Like something out of Dickens, we imagine fragments of each place: the barren Rockall, Scottish Cromarty, swagged in tartan, enticing Biscay, German Bight....
...Laying them at the bottom of the sea is another challenge, requiring special vessels and highly skilled crews....
...(One competitor, Guy deBoer, missed a fishing boat in the Bay of Biscay by five metres and then ran aground in Fuerteventura)....
...When you’re in sight of the sea they’ve got to be superlative and these were....
...He reveals that for optimum speed she needs 40 knots of wind, and that he brought her across the Bay of Biscay in a force-eight gale....
...is where you come when you absolutely must have violet-fig confiture from Alain Milliat in Lyon, or free-range eggs from New Zealand, or anchovies and octopus from a family-owned purveyor on the Bay of Biscay...
...Huchette comes from the north of France but he chose to farm abalone at the very western tip of Brittany, because that’s where the Iroise Sea — a microclimate at the confluence of the Bay of Biscay, the...
...French and Spanish boats first fished off the west coast of Africa after the stock of European pilchard collapsed in the Bay of Biscay in the early 1900s....
...Once, we had a cormorant join us over Biscay. They are shallow water fishers, so the poor chap was quite literally out of his depth. He had to hitch a ride home with us....
...We started with two dishes from the sea: a tempura of fresh anchovies and something described as “Memories of the Bay of Biscay”, which incorporated oysters with apple blossom, crab with a sea-urchin emulsion...
...The English Channel was familiar but soon we were into the fogs and whales of the Bay of Biscay, then the Strait of Gibraltar, a seaway of multiple weathers and the supercharged feeling of two great planets...
...The mackerel is the greyhound of the sea. Travelling 100m in 11 seconds, your average mackerel would not be far behind Usain Bolt in a fairly run race....
...Accounts of this land-and-sea mission to Africa draw sharply different responses from friends: the split is roughly 50-50 between those who say “Wow” and those who conclude simply: “You must be mad”....
...And so high were the waves in one of the autumn storms for which the Bay of Biscay is notorious that they surged around the sea wall and smashed through the doors of the power station’s control room....
...The teams set sail from La Rochelle in the Bay of Biscay on October 17 for Cape Town, leaving there on December 16 after delays due to huge seas and gale-force winds for Wellington, New Zealand, Salvador...
...doesn’t know yet is that the nearest we will come to France is the Bay of Biscay off Cap Finistère....
...Whether you approach the fishing port of Ondarroa by land or sea, it does not take long to guess the political sympathies of its inhabitants....
...Commercial trawlers take millions of glass eels a year from the Bay of Biscay, wetland habitat has decreased dramatically, and a parasite introduced from Asia has infected the European population....
...The Bay of Biscay reaches a depth of more than four kilometres. You could hide the Alps beneath the surface....
...The British folk singer Norma Waterson delivered an achingly sad lament about lost love, “Bay of Biscay”....
...three years ago began in Galicia on Spain’s north-west coast – Spain has the two-handed Barcelona World Race, while the previous single-handed Velux 5 Oceans race began and ended in Bilbao on the Bay of Biscay...
...A couple of summers before, I had sailed to Spain on the same ship, watching from its decks as whales cavorted in the Bay of Biscay....
...Plaice and sole quotas were also cut, while the Bay of Biscay was closed for anchovy fishing....
...The UK has already made a joint claim, in partnership with France, Spain and Ireland, to the Bay of Biscay....
International Edition