The last couple of years I didn´t manage to get away for my birthday so it was awesome to find a week off around the 16th and head off with the boyz to Portugal. Weather looked great in the south, but the forecast for waves average so we decided to make the run up far north. We knew weather would be shit but we were rewarded with pumping beachbreaks all week pretty much to ourselves, I reckon we saw the first surfers after a couple of days. Days faded into the same routine, we had our 7 hours of surf every day and the meantimes were filled with plenty of Galaos, Sandes mistas and heaps of different types of sweets to get our energy back. Even on my birthday we just had a beer and went to bed. We scored real fun waves, met up with local legend & shaper Manila and caught up with our friend and charger Simon with family who was on the way down south. Awesome times with the boys indeed, can´t wait for the next trip down there…
