After working on a nice travelstory to put here my computer thought it would be nice to just close down internet explorer. So I'll start over again and tell the story of our holiday to France.
With Bram Bast(one of my best kitemates), Suzanne(my girlfriend) we went to France for a three week holiday with a Caravan that we've borrowed from eXventure which was really cool!
In front of the caravan was my volvo, the car that also survived Norway for two months so this was going to be an easy one for her(I'm only riding girls).
After two days of driving we arrived on our first campsite, Lac de Serre Poncon in the south of France. It was a nice place where I had been before a few years ago. I thought there was good wind there but unfortunately this time the wind abandonned us. Gladly we had our boat with us so we just chilled out on the lake cruising around. We also went walking in the mountains and visited some small towns there.
After a few days we were done there and decided to go to Sete, this was on the coast of the sea close to Spain. When we arrived there all the campsites where full and we really didn't like it there because it was full of people who were just drinking and partying(Like to do that to but not every day). We decided to drive a hundred km more to the south to Leucate. We arrived here in the evening and it took us a few hours to find a campsite with some place for us. Finally we got one for just one night. The day after we found a really nice one close to the kitespot and with good warm showers. After putting the caravan there really quick we went for a kite session because there was really good wind!
When we arrived at the kitespot they were teaching with three meter kites and riding on sevens, we only had nine meter kites... F*ck it! Let's ride! We went on the water and after we got used to the spot we started to go higher and higher! I remember one jump I never had before, it was at least seven seconds and Bram said it was about twenty meters high, almost hanging as high as another kite that was at 12!
After a few hours we were really hungry and went back to the caravan where Suzanne cooked us a really good meal! How good is that!?
Then we had a few days without wind. Most of the time we just went to the beach to build sandcastles and do some skimboarding. It was nice and relaxing but we really wanted to go kiting again! So we were lucky and one day we got some thermical wind, first not to much but later it was about 20 knots. With my 12 I had a really nice session and Suzanne took some pictures from the water with my new lens(sigma 10-20). Perfect session till sundown. The best session of the holiday when I look back at it.
We had a little more wind after that and kited one more time before we went back. On the way back we stopped for a few days near a river. It was a really nice place and we went to some watersprings and caves. I also caught a fish which was eaten by the neighbour on the campsite.
When we were back in Holland I had one more week without work and in that week I doubled the kiting of the holiday so that was nice. Then you know again what a nice country we live in, it might be cold but i'ts definetely windy!
Au Revoir!
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