by paul-wsh | Mar 23, 2012 | Surfer Profiles, The Nineties
Chris Thomson grew up on the Isle of Wight, learning to surf at an early age with one dream, ‘surfing’. Chris left school at 16 and went to Newquay to live his dream, he became a surf coach and had a successful competition career with big name sponsors...
by paul-wsh | Sep 30, 2010 | The Seventies
The French Customs Story by Pat Morrell The story behind the French customs receipt is that is in 1973 Mike Hutchinson and I with our wives and Hutch’s 18 moth old daughter went to SW France for the summer holiday. We intended going on into Spain hoping to find less...
by paul-wsh | Sep 27, 2010 | Surfer Profiles, The Sixties
The following is part 1 of a collection of memories garnered from well over 50 years of enjoyment of the sea & surfing and the people connected with it. The exact sequence or timing of events may not be entirely accurate, but the events themselves are broadly as I...