Indian Summer

I just noticed that the last post we put up was called Where is the Summer?

We wrote it when it had been raining for weeks on end, and we’d started wondering if summer was ever going to arrive. The trouble with diaries and blogs is that you tend to write them when you’ve got time on your hands,there’s no surf and the weather’s rubbish. What happened next of course was that the sun came put, the swell got up, and we headed down to the beach and forgot to write the blog all summer....

So before you start feeling too sorry for us - yes, we did have summer, followed by Indian summer, and we’re still in shorts and spring suits.

Apart from a hectic summer at the surf school, Johanna’s been working on an exciting new film project, Meetings in Lofoten. with fellow free skier and skipper Karolina Ekman.

They’ll be going up to the archipelago of Lofoten, in arctic Norway, sailing, ski-touring and surfing the local breaks. They’ll also be meeting the people who live in this beautiful but isolated part of Europe, and trying to figure out what makes them stay here... and what makes them leave. Camilla, one of the original members of the Surf Mamas born in the Northern most town in the world and brought up in Lofoten, so she should have some insight into that... We'll be telling you lots more about this in the next blog...

Meanwhile other good news is that Wilma’s first book Surf Mama comes out next June with Beautiful Books. Paintings and stories about her life in London, Ireland, Biarritz and Mexico, and what makes a forty year old artist who’s never done an exercise class in her life take up surfing?