Waiting on Nazare.

The van is shaking, and rain is splatting hard onto the windscreen. I'm sat in a pretty empty car park, as the various photographers and other tourists scattered when the ran began, on a headland, connected to a mysterious wifi source, watching waves breaking at Europe's premiere big wave spot. Nazare. Its big. But its super messy, and I would say at the moment pretty un-towable. 4 days ago however it was on, along with Aliens, The Cribbar and most other big wave spots in Europe and two weeks before that, a ride was filmed here that made it onto the list of Billabong XXL nominees.
I left Peniche yesterday, and after a wild goose chase that enabled me to sample the delights of Leiria and Caldas de Rainha (again), I managed to obtain the cable I needed to get my Sat Nav working. In the end it had to be 'crafted' by a man in Sonigate, as it appears to be the rarest cable in existence, and could not be bought anywhere for love nor money. Yesterday evening I arrived in Ericeira, as I really wanted to score Coxos before I head for Spain, however when I woke up this morning it was a blown out mess didn't look like it was going to be very promising on this current swell. On inspection of the screen shot I had taken of the MS forecast for Ericeira, I noticed the title of an article in the corner of the page, entitled 'Nazare goes XXL'. I recognized the name and on typing it into my newly functioning sat nav, I discovered it was just an hour and a forty minutes away, so with a 20 foot swell, and the wind dropping, I observed the dulcet tones of Thomas (the voice of my Sat Nav) as he lead back north up the coast and straight to the car park in which I'm sitting. Whether I'll score it tomorrow I don't know, but I'm pretty keen to find out. So check back ite.

Before the rain came- The little white van in the left of the photo is where I am now sat.