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Hallowe’en surf trip 2022
We had a blast. In the end there were 27 of us staying at Retorrick Mill. The weather was a real mixed bag. Saturday morning the waves were a bit sketchy and the current was insane, but a few of us went in in the afternoon also and found some good ones, while the others…
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Trip to the Steam Rally?!
It’s not normally top of our activity list – we try to do active, exciting and sometimes ‘extreme’ things… but, we went on one of our regular surf weekends to Mawgan Porth last weekend and it turns out THE thing going on locally was The Annual Mawgan Porth Steam Rally… we had to go. There…
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Llangollen in August
For this trip we went a little bit luxury and stayed in hotel!! Oooh! We stayed at The Hand hotel, right in the centre of town. It’s a little bit beaten up around the ages, but the rooms were clean and a full fry up each morning was definitely welcome!! We had a small crew…
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is it worth going on a dry ski slope?
YES. Definitely. It is of course true to say that it is not much like the snow, it is true to say that it hurts more when you fall over and it is true to say that if you have one of those giant fridge places with artificial snow inside they are more like the…
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Les Gets is back!
The UCI world cup tour is the event(s) of the world cup downhill biking calendar. Les Gets (the next village along from our base in Morzine) was one of the original routes on the tour, but it hasn’t visited the village since 2004, and that was an epic race. Les Gets has hosted Crankworx for…
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chill at the mill
Music festivals are two-a-penny these days and with the big ones meaning large price tags, long walks, rubbish camping, long queues and miniscule views… I’ve gone off them. Luckily for us there is a tiny (some might say boutique) festival that for us is how a festival should be. Chill at the Mill is held…
