The Ebb and Flow

This weekend just gone, Juretic Media closed it’s offices for a long weekend and headed for the Cornish coast for a company surf session.

A 5am start from Brighton saw us in St.Buryan near Lands End by lunchtime – perfect time to hit the beach.

I’ll keep the details brief but the weather was on and off. The surf was similar. The alcohol flowed at a comfortable rate come the evening and the company was top-notch.

Now, while I didn’t completely master surfing (well, the getting up part at least), I do think I might have caught some sort of surfing bug. I am so up for trying this all out again real soon.

An added bonus of the trip was a long overdue return to the land of my fathers. I do have such a soft spot for Cornwall. It takes me back to a childhood time when everyone seemed happy, things weren’t as complicated and my family could be in the same room for longer than a day without getting at each other. Admittedly, we were a fair bit more south than Port Isaac, Polezeath and Delabole, but the country has the same rugged, wind swept look to it from the minute you cross the river Tamar.

If that wasn’t enough, I then found out that the village we were staying in, St.Buryan, was the location for the Sam Peckinpah film, Straw Dogs! It could only have been better if I found out we were staying in one of the locations for the island of Summerisle from The Wicker Man.

All in all, a great weekend. I can’t wait to get back to Cornwall and of course annihilate some waves while I’m there.

Massive props need to be given to Neven who sorted everything out.