I feel as though I’m one of the luckiest people alive these days. Loving my job(s), my children and my partner (not in any particular order). There’s no dread about working, whether I’m teaching spinning, working in our hotel or spending some time peacefully at home or walking the dogs, it all feels good.
Our hotel [...]
I guess one of the most outstanding things about the last 3 weeks has been people’s reaction to Cabarete. For those who have not visited this town before and are just embarking on a surf trip and not much else, they are understandably amazed at what a great town Cabarete is.
For those who have surfed [...]
It has been an exhausting, fun, interesting, eye-opening 3 weeks since Swell opened it’s doors.
Jim, my partner had done a great job on marketing the hotel that we have been inundated with inquiries and clients. We have had some hairy moments and some of the best laughs I can remember in years.
What chance of your first ever [...]
A lovely day today – great surf and a photoshoot – here are the results;
A nice early start this morning, we have been awaiting a couple of weeks for a decent swell and it began today.
Drew and I set off at 6am for Encuentro. The ‘Left’ is a break at Encuentro. It needs a little bit of North direction in the swell to make it good and today, it [...]
Not the best waves this morning, but there were still some descent waves at Encuentro.
Don’t know who this fellah is , but he hits the lip very nicely.
5.30am this morning! The first North swell of the year arrived during the night and I’d promised Drew that we’d go before school. We arrived at Encuentro just as daylight was breaking – surprised to see 4 other vehicles already there. North and North/east swells are what everyone is waiting for the whole summer; [...]
Two days of rather frustrating ‘nearly-wind’ but not…… Many of the tourists here do the right thing and bring their 10/11/12 metre kites (or even larger) but Jim and I have 7’s and 9’s and the last couple of days it just wasn’t quite enough to ride.
Mid-August/September is storm season; the storms form off the [...]
Even though American Airlines did their level-best to ruin our short trip to Miami to pick up my children (26 hour delay and rude staff= zero – customer service) – we are now back in Cabarete, happy to be home safe and sound and my boys are playing out on their skateboards and bikes, [...]
Tomorrow we are off to Miami once more. We will be going to collect the boys who will arrive from the UK on Thursday and we are very much looking forward to seeing them. 5 weeks apart now and I feel like I even need to smell them.
We will also be combining the [...]