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Where to shop, sleep and surf in the coastal county
...The village is our last stop before the bid for the top of South America, and Arturo pulls over for gas at a shop piled with jerry cans....
...Sam Mendes’ beautifully paced production surfs time, place and mood and is gloriously acted....
...“The wave got very crook, very sick”, says Craig Sage, Australian owner of the Mundaka Surf Shop. Having first arrived to ride it back in 1980, Sage stayed to plant the flag for his sport....
...Or I’ll pop into a great coffee shop in St Agnes called The Sorting Office. After an evening surf I might go to The Taphouse for a good beer, or the 17th-century Driftwood Spars down by the water....
...It was one of the first places in the region to create luxe hospitality for the purpose of underwriting a charitable development foundation; one of the first haute surf lodges, where all-day-long access...
...“It’ll be crazy at the shop tomorrow. Everyone will be fighting over the fresh salad.”...
...It has a fine trio of cities: the charmingly buttoned-up capital Oviedo; ebullient, surf-tastic Gijón; and handsome Avilés, finally emerging from its post-industrial slump....
...So I saved up and bought my first board at Eukaliptus, a mythical surf shop in Sopela. Having the right equipment is vital – you need a good wetsuit in February....
...I started at a surf and skate shop when I was 13, which was the best job ever and changed my lifestyle as a young person. I worked there until I was 21....
...Agbofah, whose tote bags made from recycled denim are sold in London’s Victoria and Albert Museum shop, is one of a handful of entrepreneurs across Africa who are turning textile waste into new, inspiring...
...To the south-west, among the surf havens is Barwon Heads, where the average sale price for a house is A$1.8mn — considerably higher than its 2019 average, which hovered around $1mn....
...Stop at Air + Speed Surf Shop to rent a board – they give lessons, too – or just to buy a cool T-shirt....
...When stress levels rise and the compulsion to shop intensifies, she encourages her patients to “surf the urge”....
...miles along the coast of Western Australia, from Cape Naturaliste to Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse in the south – traversing the lovely Margaret River region and some of the whitest, prettiest beaches and best surf...
...After having exhausted the hotel’s excellent menu, we went in search of local sustenance and found ourselves at Singh’s Roti Shop....
...The B&B’s rooms are sweet rather than swank, exhibiting that typical LA mix of English cottage and surf shack....
...When we surf the urge, we go, “Ooh, I really want to stop. How can it. I’m just going to pause for five minutes. And then see how this feeling feels.”...
...Today they include a butcher, two antiques shops, a bicycle repair and rental shop, a jewellery design shop and an insurance shop....
...“We bought this property about 20 years ago when it was a wet-fish shop with a cottage attached. A friend of ours came up with the idea of opening half of it as a retro surf shop,” says Perry Walsh....
...cultural landscape is being boosted by a new generation of British creatives, from artists such as Tahnee Lonsdale and Kour Pour to jeweller Polly Wales, who are carving out a niche for themselves between the surf...
...Nantucket Hotel), with interiors by Michael Cramer (the man behind cult favourite destination Gurney’s, in Montauk on Long Island), a bar featuring spirits they brew themselves, and an island boutique shop...
...There are gift shops selling Highland cattle fridge magnets. But there are also pockets of the solitude Celtic monks understood brought them closer to God....
...And of course, there’s the Atlantic Ocean, ready to commune with you when you are (as are the surf instructors at champion waverider Tiago Pires’s surf school, just down the road)....
...Locals and tourists, known as people “from away”, wander the rocks and admire the crashing surf and seagoing vessels. I ask some locals about the Worcesters....
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