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France has some of the best beach breaks in the world and a lot of various spots (reef, rivermouth,etc..). The nightlife is pretty hot and the wine destroies your legs for the morning session. you just can't say you surf if you don't pass on summer in France in your life.
Location: Western Europe, bordering the Bay of Biscay and English Channel, between Belgium and Spain, southeast of the UK; bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Italy and Spain
Geographic coordinates: 46 00 N, 2 00 E
Coastline: 3,427 km
Climate: generally cool winters and mild summers, but mild winters and hot summers along the Mediterranean; occasional strong, cold, dry, north-to-northwesterly wind known as mistral
Terrain: mostly flat plains or gently rolling hills in north and west; remainder is mountainous, especially Pyrenees in south, Alps in east
Natural hazards: flooding; avalanches
Currency: euro (EUR)
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Location: Western Europe, bordering the Bay of Biscay and English Channel, between Belgium and Spain, southeast of the UK; bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Italy and Spain.
Geographic coordinates: 46° 0' N, 2° 0' E
Coastline: 3,427 Km km
Climate: generally cool winters and mild summers, but mild winters and hot summers along the Mediterranean; occasional strong, cold, dry, north-to-northwesterly wind known as mistral
Terrain: mostly flat plains or gently rolling hills in north and west; remainder is mountainous, especially Pyrenees in south, Alps in east
Elevation: lowest point: Rhone River delta -2 m highest point: Mont Blanc 4,807 m
Natural hazards: flooding; avalanches; midwinter windstorms; drought; forest fires in south near the Mediterranean
Currency: Euro
Population: 60,424,213 (July 2004 est.)
Languages: French 100%, rapidly declining regional dialects and languages (Provencal, Breton, Alsatian, Corsican, Catalan, Basque, Flemish)
Capital: Paris
Divisions: 22 regions (regions, singular - region); Alsace, Aquitaine, Auvergne, Basse-Normandie, Bourgogne, Bretagne, Centre, Champagne-Ardenne, Corse, Franche-Comte, Haute-Normandie, Ile-de-France, Languedoc-Roussillon, Limousin, Lorraine, Midi-Pyrenees, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Pays de la Loire, Picardie, Poitou-Charentes, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, Rhone-Alpes note: metropolitan France is divided into 22 regions (including the "territorial collectivity" of Corse or Corsica) and is subdivided into 96 departments; see separate entries for the overseas departments (French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Reunion) and the overseas territorial collectivities (Mayotte, Saint Pierre and Miquelon)
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Le Gurp, France
By yann, 2009-01-04 14:03:00
Perfect
It was cold but perfect. The session started slowly with a fun 1m-1,20 m. It was long fun rippable walls. I had a lot of fun (cut-back, roller, etc,)
Then people started to come (and auto-proclameted anry locals ). The swell rose up and we got
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Grand Crohot, France
By yann, 2009-01-01 15:30:00
Good but hard
The waves were perfect but a little too fast.
I caught good ones at the beginning. But my session was a little frustrating because I had a good an long and tirying new yearparty...I was exhausted rapidly.
I caught indeed 2 really beautifu
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Anse du Brick, France
By yann, 2008-12-27 15:00:00
Good surprise
The wind was a strong northeast, the swell was a windy shorth period swell: it didn't seem very good...
I wen to La Mondrée : waves were big, 1.50m but so mushy...It was surfable but no quality.
I decided to go back to l'An
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La Mondrée, France
By yann, 2008-12-26 10:30:16
Cold and mushy
Haaa, even waves were not very good becaus of the wind, it was fun to surf at the normandy north coast.
Spot of La Mondrée
hu hu, cold....
I've got some fun
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Le Gurp, France
By yann, 2008-12-21 09:30:00
Medoc Magic
Haaa, again, the Medoc waves !!!
I started my session alone (there was some angry locals but they just stayed on the dunes..). I got some really clean waves. Some sets were more than 2m. The others were 1.5 to a good 2m. I have done good carvi
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comment by Anonymous, 2008-07-20 19:21:17