Depois do reencontro, o regresso ao mar

Fun surf

Um dia depois da sua chegada... combinámos ir surfar.
Por ela, tirando o cansaço inerente a uma longa viagem, sei que tinha ido logo mal voltou a por os pés em solo lusitano.
Vistas as condições, decidimos ir para Carcavelos que se apresentava com a onda ideal para quem já não surfava há mais de 3 meses. Carro carregado e... a caminho da praia!
Chegados a Carcavelos comecei a notar algum nervosismo da parte dela. Ainda no parque de estacionamento ficámos alguns minutos a olhar para as ondas, eu cabisbaixo pelo seu (pouco) tamanho, ela sorrindo nervosamente e soltando alguns "Ah que está um pouco grande para mim!".
Consegui acalmá-la, afinal de contas estaria sempre a seu lado, tentando ajudá-la em tudo o que pudesse. Vestidos os fatos, feito o aquecimento... entrámos na água! Sempre ao seu lado, só me dava para sorrir e dizer piadas para a tranquilizar. Continuava com algum receio de, imagine-se, já não saber surfar!
Mas acreditem, nunca se esquece. Os movimentos podem estar mais "enferrujados" devido à ausência prolongada dos mares, mas mal nos montamos em cima da prancha... aquela sensação de liberdade volta a invadir-nos de tal forma que tudo o resto se torna novamente natural.
Remámos para outside e esperámos. As ondas estavam tímidas, talvez até demais. Levei a minha prancha de Epoxy, a que mais me ajudou a desenvolver as minhas bases de surf até ao momento. A Ângela estava com uma 7'6, a amarelinha com a qual já tinha partilhado ondas anteriormente.
Quando as ondas vinham, eram moles. Ia gritando: "Rema, rema, peito para cima, take-off rápido!" como habitualmente, estando também eu um pouco nervoso!
Até que... chegou. Ela remou, levantou-se e... cortou a onda tão bem ou melhor do que antes da sua ida para as Arábias! O seu sorriso no final, próprio das crianças extasiadas com um qualquer brinquedo novo, foi impagável.

Depois disso, muita brincadeira, muitas ondas, algumas quedas... mas o importante foi poder voltar a partilhar com ela esta nossa paixão que acaba por nos unir ainda mais.

The first surf trip: Morocco&You

Only me&you and so much to discover and live together... Enjoy my love ;)

Sharing the dream

Today, after a great morning of surfing at Carcavelos beach, i met a nice girl from New Zeland and her brother. They are traveling around Europe in a customized van (old but still great!) with 3 other friends. England was their starting point but they have been in the road since July... crossing France, Spain and Portugal! The final destiny will be Morocco, a country i'm eager to visit as soon as possible.

Carcavelos beach, taken with a Gopro

While i was talking to her, i realized that "the dream" is pretty much alive inside me... So, Angela, it's almost time to pursue our own dreams! Let's go :)

Love

In these days, you must think really well what you want to share in the World Wide Web. I, for instance try not to post anything more private, like where i live and work. And love stuff. Why? In first place, it's tacky. Yes, normally i tend to throw up when someone tells everything about their love. Second, because you never know what's going to happen and you and only you has something to do about it! Right? Then... someone enter your love life with a force of a hundred waves all combined... And you want to shout to the world that your heart finally beats in the same rythm than the person you are with. I still think that's lame but, let's open an exception... i'm truly in love!

Living the dream isn't just about surfing. It's about friendship, love, trust... it's about us and the future that awaits us...

For my baby, missing you so much*

Moments that where... and will be :)

A week of changes

I've been making a few changes this week. First i cut my hair, loosing my "surfer look". Nothing that a couple of months with some massive surf days won't repair!

Xcell: too big for me

Secondly, i needed a new wetsuit. My current one has a hole of the size of a donut hole, not that good when the water keeps getting colder :) So, i went on a journey, no, a quest! It's sales time around here and finding a suit that fits me is as hard as doing the "four" while drunk! After a few shops, i found what will be my new second skin: a O'Neill 4/3 Pyrotech bluish on the top. It suits me perfectly!

O'Neill 4/3 Pyrotech - Love it!

Despite some changes, somethings never change: i'm still an Angelaholic! Love you and miss you babe*

Never gonna stop being one :D

By the way, another big storm swell arrived, i had the oportunity to see it for myself, no one was crazy to get in the water today :)

Carcavelos beach

São Pedro do Estoril beach, one of my favorite rights along Ericeira's Ribeira d'ilhas, was monstruous with 2,5m waves

Friendship, the beginning

It's funny when you have a photo from the day when you first meet someone but yet you didn't knew at the time that she would be so damn important to you...

First surfing lesson together :)

Hang on babe, almost together again ;)

The day-after

Despite her departure the surfing days aren't over! All i can say is that i miss her a lot.

Today's surfin' friends

 I went surfing with friends to Carcavelos and all i could think was that i would be so much better to share some waves with her...

Going down!

Come back soon baby!

The beginning - The other version

This is just a simple post to explain to you all how this started.

As simple as this, when two good friends, who enjoy doing the same old things, realize that they prefer to do it with someone special, and that someone is just besides them.  So, this starts as just a beautiful, ordinary story as others. Why do we think we are special and decided to write about it?

Because we do are specialJ! Furthermore, as I am going abroad, we decided to maintain a place where we would share our stories, our love, our friendship and our adventures.

And, I am not this kind of corny person, I am not really! But the truth is that we both didn’t fall in love for a long time, and when we realized that this passion was something else it was already too late!  We are willed to give a true chance to our love, with all your blesses ;)

After this introduction I am going to post some of our old friendship stories. ;)