Parking for your boat is at a premium in Luarca.
Asturias, Spain – This place must be the forgotten region in Spain. Everyone has been to Madrid or Barcelona, the Balaeric or Canary Isles, Andulucia even. But who’s heard of Asturias? And who knew you could surf here?
I’m in Asturias for a week. The official line is that I’m here to meet my mum, who will finish a whirlwind three week bus tour through western Europe tomorrow.
We’ve rented a fisherman’s house high on the hill in Luarca, a village of a 15,000 or so. Not very rock star, I know, but it suits the Hemingway phase I am going through. (not the holidaying with my Mum part, but the heavy-drinking blogger in an isolated-house-on-the-hill part).
Unofficially, I’m using this mother-son bonding holiday to scout around for waves. There’s not a lot of information on the usual surfing websites about this region. But with miles of beaches and headlands – all facing the north Atlantic – its got to have some potential.
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