what a fantastic trip; came back thursday,sob, sob!
i think can speak for all who went over to try out the french beaches and waves that we had a great time. i will put some pics on as and when i get the time.
beaches were : plage de deviere at st jean de monts, west of nantes.
tranch sur mere, just north of la rochelle.
bisscarrose plage , by arcachon.vert boise on the il d' oleron. and everyones favourit on the quiberon penninsular, pen thrieven on the west side and carnach bay on the east. oh and omaha beach ,Col reckons that was the buis, so will have to try it next year.
Nick is still out till tuesday ,exploring new beaches so will no doubt get some feed back on his return.
best thing was being out in just board shorts and sea specs most days; fantstic sun and only about 3 days of dull weather in the whole of august! bring on next year!!!

here is the shot from the dunes where we park up behind the beach in st jean de monts. you can see Rentia and Nick sitting iinfront of our van with Nicks van parked behind oh yes thats the normal sunshine

Nice one Neil.... I could do with a holiday, especially a month long holiday!!! Its been ages since I've been to France but have visited many of those beahces in the past... Lon before kitesurfing was invented. I've surfed at a few of them and spent a week by Biscarrose one year. I was competing in the Arachon triathlon but managed to squeeze in a few epic surf sessions at both Biscarosse and Mimizan plage in between the taining sessions. Did you get to check out Hossegor or Lacanau, I surfed them while I was there too, although the conditions weren't quite up to their world class levels while I was there...

Can you fit me into your suitcase next year!!!

Al.

Here ya go Neil.... Heres the image you posted above resized and reduced in filesize so that people with slower connections will be able to download it and see it..... If you want to post some more you can send them to me for resizing if you like.

Al.

here is the Dunkster after a tiring day on the beach relaxing in the sun in his new speedos

And the next one... again reduced in size from around 600KB to about 30kb, and made so that it will display inline within the forum thread.... I'm too good to you!!

Al.

here is the Dunkster with the latest in shower technology

Thats a better size Neil, now if you change the filename suffix to .jpg rather than .JPG they should show up within the thread!

By the way, you might be interested to hear that when I get some time I shall be working on building a new photo gallery section for this site.. It will have various categories into which members will be able to upload photos, such as, kitesurfing, kite-buggying, windsurfing, surfing, body-boarding, beaches and landscapes, travel and of course bikinis girls! As well as the categories each member will have their own photo album as well, and best of all I'll write the code so that it will automatically resize and optimise your images for you, so you won't have to bother about that yourself.... I'll get around to it one day, if people REALLY want it then I might get around to it a little quicker!

Al.

Al that sounds like a great idea.
here is def not a bikini girl found on the beach !!!!

Ugh!!! Thats not nice at all!

Glad to see he's protecting his feet from the sun though!

Al.

nice one Neil, glad you had fun, Naxos was also excellent, check out my piccies posted in the Look at me now forum a week a go or so.

Picture thing on the site sounds a wonderful idea Al
I've been to plage de deviere at st jean de monts,
tranch sur mere (both nice places, from what i remember la rochelle was good too) and omaha beach (although you dont get waves up on the north coast of france at omaha beach - its more based on the d-day landings, very emotional memorials and burial grounds, great place to visit)...and i've also been to mimizan and lacanau ocean (which you mentioned Al). Really good waves at both. Went to lacanau this summer and it was amazing, some days had a lot of shorebreak and undercurrent, and some days were just HUGE...i didnt go out too far cus of my ability in bodyboarding. Managed to see the lacanau oakley pro and pro junior surf competition while i was there, some really talented guys, well u'd expect that with a first prize of around £75,000, i've got loads of pics i can put up of it. Hoping to go to bisscarrose next year. So you can tell i go to france a lot

very important ,the feet!
yep saw your pics Tim ; looks as though you both had a great time, some needing more sleep than others,strange!
here is a pic of Graham sporting the speedos nd sampling the Dunksters bathing tech.

here are the vans on the quiberon penninsular

a picture of the happy couple ;this is what red wine at E1 per litre bottle does to you.
no they were really enjoying themselves

camping at le tranche sur mer, just north of la rochelle

the pics are great, have you got any of when we were with you as our camera went tits up and weve lost them all

hi Steve oh no! didnt take any the first wek forgot; first time took out the camera was at tranchehow is the van? we did 1775 miles in the end and it averaged 25.4 mpg amazing!!!

Great pics Neil, glad to hear you had a top time. The Dunkster has been singing the praises for France and is trying to encourage a big Borth Massive trip for next year, you can count me in. Hopefully see you down the beach next weekend.

hi Chris , yep france has a something going for it and not just the 1 E litre bottle of wine. great beaches ala borth but with the 30+C that kind of helps things along.
will be up in borth this weekend , wind permitting ,might not have norman though if he gets sold!
did miss the massif and the atmosphere of borth, some great kitesurfers over there , very friendly never felt out of place.

Jesus guys, can you stop posting pic's of Dunk in his speedo's!?

Did he kitesurf in them for that all over tanned look, could be interesting in any high speed wipeouts or crach landings!

Sounds like a good trip, you missed a bit of an epic last weekend though fella's.

Later

Mark

with all those vans it looks a bit crowded for me..

Scary pics Neil, especially the gay bloke and the one of Dunk in his speedo..

What's up with all the speedo's??????????

It could be worse... It could have been photos of Dunk without his speedos!!

Al.

dunk without speedo's....didn't think neils zoom lense was that good..(so graham tells us anyway)

Sorry Col, think you mean wide lens don't get Neils fetish with speedos though, as he's the founder member of the thong club

Yeah!! -

Neil - Master & Founder of the thong club

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Originally posted by justal
It could be worse... It could have been photos of Dunk without his speedos!!

Al.

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since when did the reef girls do nude shots!?!

Haha... I know that photo would get mentioned before too long!!

Al.

sounds like you had a great time neil, why sell the van though you going bbigger, after seeing the pics kath went hunting for the frying pan, ouch !!!. see ya soon

speedos and thongs this is all getting very scary! Me thinks such attire should be limited to the reef girls!

going after a van with the bed in the back, keep falling down the ladder and a garage style to put all the gear in without a top box so nothing sticks out!!!!
you coming to the east coast at the weekend?
you must go to france next year ,cheaper than chips and warmtooooooooooooo

garage sounds good, we went to pembrokshire coast for a couple of weeks newgale, newport, white sands.
didnt take any kit cause of the leg, it was nice to have no cluter in the van and it stayed so tidy so garage would be mega.
wont be going to brancaster, need to get back to work to build the pennys again.will defenatly be going to france next year, warm sounds sooooo nice. going up to borth 17/18 cant wait to be back on the water. see ya soon

had a top trip, was good to see dunk and graham out there. so easy to stay in the van, never paid to park or camp once.
went right out to the est coast of brittany, a spot called la pont de la torche or just la torche, big surf spot and i reckon it has got the potential for some sweet waves, was really unluck not to have much wind when i was there but will definitely be going back.