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| posted on 3-9-2005 at 09:20 |
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trip to france
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!!!
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mNeil
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| posted on 3-9-2005 at 10:12 |
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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
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justal
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| posted on 3-9-2005 at 10:13 |
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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.
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justal
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| posted on 3-9-2005 at 10:19 |
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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.
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mNeil
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| posted on 3-9-2005 at 10:21 |
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here is the Dunkster after a tiring day on the beach relaxing in the sun in his new speedos
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justal
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| posted on 3-9-2005 at 10:26 |
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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!!
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mNeil
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| posted on 3-9-2005 at 10:29 |
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here is the Dunkster with the latest in shower technology
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justal
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| posted on 3-9-2005 at 11:14 |
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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!
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mNeil
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| posted on 3-9-2005 at 13:45 |
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Al that sounds like a great idea.
here is def not a bikini girl found on the beach !!!!
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| posted on 3-9-2005 at 14:10 |
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Ugh!!! Thats not nice at all!
Glad to see he's protecting his feet from the sun though!
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| posted on 3-9-2005 at 20:27 |
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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.
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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 
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mNeil
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| posted on 3-9-2005 at 22:37 |
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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.
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here are the vans on the quiberon penninsular
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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
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| posted on 3-9-2005 at 22:58 |
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camping at le tranche sur mer, just north of la rochelle
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| posted on 4-9-2005 at 09:36 |
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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 
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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!!!
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| posted on 4-9-2005 at 15:34 |
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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.
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| posted on 4-9-2005 at 21:32 |
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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.
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