{"id":5030,"date":"2021-07-02T21:03:48","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T19:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journeys.saltoftheearth.de\/?p=5030"},"modified":"2021-07-02T21:03:49","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T19:03:49","slug":"safari-surf-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journeys.saltoftheearth.de\/?p=5030","title":{"rendered":"Safari & Surf"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We had a pretty good swell this week, meaning the waves were between 4 and 6 feet high here at the Playa de Berria. For us, this is where the fun starts, so we decided to make the most of it and have surfing classes on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. We can highly recommend the Berria Surf School here. The kids were in their own group with other kids. Since our kids don\u2019t speak any Spanish one of the teachers always translated it for them! The teachers really did a great job with the kids, teaching them playfully how to stand up on the board while pushing them into the white water. The two of us shared a teacher with one other adult, so we could focus on improving our surfing while the kids had fun and were looked after – win win. On Tuesday the swell made it even harder to get through the whitewater past the breaking zone. The current was also pretty strong and the waves rolling in from the ocean every other second cost us more energy than the actual surfing. Nate had so much fun on Wednesday in his class that he didn\u2019t want to leave the water – so we had a quick lunch and went back to beach, this time with our own boards. Good thing we brought them. Just the wetsuits we had bought for the boys were a little to thin – for us the 3\/2mm ones are plenty warm, but apparently our kids like it warmer. So we drove to the nearest Decathlon and got a 4\/3mm one for Nate and an additional 2mm suit for Noam as they don\u2019t carry 4\/3mm wetsuits for kids his age. From now on he wears two suits on top of each other. Now they\u2019re both warm \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n