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A few week’s back I discovered my friend Simon had gone out to do a season in the French Alps in the resort of Morzine. So like all good friends, what did I do? I invited myself out to go and hang out for a few days :)

Luckily Simon (and the friends he is staying with) are very kind and said yes to my plea. So I full of stoke, I booked my flights, sorted out transfers and did a little shopping yesterday for some new kit (helmet, goggles and ski pants).

I’m taking 3 different GoPro mounts, plus the Canon 550D, so here’s hoping we get some decent footage.

Next update will be from Morzine tomorrow.

Laters…

Been a busy bee this weekend and published my second book on Blurb. This time a short 60-pager about our trip to Tallinn back in May 2010.

Dig!

Just published a new book on Blurb: Boa viagem by Ben Ellis & Rosana Maragna, gonna take a few weeks to print and ship, but super stoked about it!

We’d been planning a little surf trip down to North Devon for about a month and randomly choose the last weekend in September. Having travelled to Devon so many times and invariably missing out on epic conditions (such is the life of a landlocked surfer), we went with an open mind and tried to have little (or no) expectations of what the conditions would be like.

On what was apparently the hotest October in the UK on record, we scored some of the cleanest waves, offshore winds and best weather we’ve EVER had on a North Devon surf trip. I surfed in a pair of board shorts all weekend, with a short wetsuit top just to keep the wind off. In all, I reckon I put in about 10-15 hours in the water over the course of the weekend, testiment to the fact that we just couldn’t get enough of what had been served up to us.

Now, call it fate, call it reward for all the times we’ve gone down and it being crap, or call it higher intervention, this time it was an epic session that will go down in the memory as one of the best times we’ve had down in Woolacombe and one that will be hard to top.

You know what comes next!

Stoked :)

A short (but inspirational) video on why taking risks is important by Ed Stafford, from the Do Lectures series of talks held in Wales, UK.