Northern Spain - La Hosteria
Surfing & Surf Lessons In Northern Spain
The warm prevailing winds, consistent Atlantic swells and Bay of Biscay’s enormous depth, combine to produce quality surf conditions all year in North Spain. Mild winters and great summers it is an ideal surfing destination for all levels of surfers. From early summer to early autumn, it’s possible to surf in just shorts in this region!
The main beach of Somo is over three miles long and can produce perfect beach break waves, which are surf-able throughout all the tides and are perfect for all levels. The small island of Santa Marina lies at the eastern end of Somo; here a perfect right-hand point break peels along the island, producing some of Northern Spain's best big waves. To view a clip of the Island breaking click here to view our YouTube channel.
The island right, for those braver souls!
Surf School
The surf school is conveniently run from the guesthouse, the lessons start at 10.30am and last all morning. In the afternoon, you have the option to continue surfing at your leisure. All equipment is brand new and our instructors are all highly qualified British Surfing Association surf coaches and qualified beach Lifeguards, thus ensuring that your first surfing experience is a safe and satisfying one. For those of you wishing to get better we have years of experience coaching some of Europe's best surfers, using the latest video coaching methods.
Top surf coach Damian sliding the waves. La Hosteria lies just in the forest behind the beach.
Private Surf Coaching
Our team in Northern Spain are highly qualified and motivated surf coaches, as such we also offer private one on one surf coaching and small private group coaching. This always ensure that you have the undivided attention of your instructor, in order to improve your surfing or learn from scratch. You can choose when you want to surf, be it morning, midday or afternoon.
So if you fancy improving your cutback, wave selection or any other areas we have the team and the resources to make this happen. For prices of private lessons see prices section here.
Fat Face Surfboard Demo Centre
Errant have teamed up with the UK's leading active lifestyle brand Fat Face to offer a "try before you buy" on their latest surfboard models in 2008. The three boards, one mini-mal, a longboard and a fish are great boards for people looking at buying for the first time and who are unsure of what they would like to ride. More details on the surfboards can be viewed here.
Your host and Fat Face Team rider Chris Thomson on the 6'6" fish.
