40 Reasons

Posted on 25 Dec, 2014 by Nige and/or Denny  | Tags: Explorer Package, Local Life, Surf Guiding, Groups

40 Reasons why you should spend your 40th birthday surfing in Morocco…

1. 40th birthdays abroad slip under most people's radar at home
2. Moroccans consider 40 a youthful age
3. Flights from Europe daily
4. It's half the price of Europe
5. It's warmer than the Europe
6. Long right point breaks
7. Heavy reef breaks
8. Uncrowded beach breaks
9. The trip is more digestible for loved ones than Ibiza
10. Good nightclubs and casinos
11. Involving surfing makes a birthday party week seem healthier
12. The mosque kindly wakes you up everyday for the dawn session.
13. The mosque kindly lets you know when its beer-o'clock in the afternoon
14. Locals don't surf before 10am
15. The beer and wine are cheap, palatable and plentiful
16. The guys at MSA welcome a good party
17. Moroccans will nod along to your poor french unlike the French
18. Head away from Agadir and there are more waves than surfers
19. The coastline is considerably more varied than Europe
20. It's never flat at Tamri
21. Onshore winds are offshore on the points
22. You will ride your step-up board
23. You will ride your short board
24. Local surfers are welcoming
25. Al Fresco toilets at most good breaks
26. See the famous plastic bag trees
27. See the famous goats in trees
28. Watching novices getting in and out at Anchor Point
29. Men in high visibility vests will watch your car for 20 cents a surf
30. Moroccan's invented the original surfers changing robe, the jellaba
31. You can make lots of new friends with cigarette papers
32. Mobile salesmen will also entertain you in-between surfs (thanks Hisham)
33. All driving indiscretions are a 100 dirham 'cash only' handshake
34. Camels photo-bomb your pictures
35. Tagine, couscous, fresh bread, kebabs, fish and mint tea
36. French bakeries
37. Donut sellers on the beach
38. Cut throat shave at the barbers
39. Hammam and massages
40. One stop at the souk on the way home and your souvenir shopping is done

Thanks to all the crew at MSA for a great week, we'll be back…
DC, RC, Jinks, Tom and Bucko.
xx

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