{"id":145486,"date":"2018-10-01T20:13:23","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T03:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=145486"},"modified":"2018-10-01T20:13:23","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T03:13:23","slug":"surfing-then-and-now-in-southwest-france-40-years-of-biarritz-breaks-and-beers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=145486","title":{"rendered":"Surfing then and now in southwest France: 40 years of Biarritz breaks and beers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>In the 1970s renegade surfers were greeted with bemusement on the beaches of France\u2019s Atlantic coast; now it\u2019s the cars without surfboards on that stand out at this stop on the World Surf League tour<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It was 1979 and we\u2019d hit the road in an old, beat-up Peugeot Estate, heading to the wave-washed coast of southwest France on a surf trip \u2013 my first ever.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually we arrived at our destination, Biarritz, the surf capital of Europe at a time when the sport was still a niche activity enjoyed only by a renegade few. From the early 1960s to the early \u201980s the area around Biarritz, known as\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/travel-leisure\/article\/2165933\/surfing-then-and-now-southwest-france-40-years-biarritz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 1970s renegade surfers were greeted with bemusement on the beaches of France\u2019s Atlantic coast; now it\u2019s the cars without surfboards on that stand out at this stop on the World Surf League tour It was 1979 and we\u2019d hit the road in an old, beat-up Peugeot Estate, heading to the wave-washed coast of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145487,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145486\/revisions\/145487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}