The visit of Benoit Lucchini

April 24, 2025Chillin' Articlesmanager

The visit of Benoit Lucchini

This summer season I have received many surprises. Among them visits from many people from France, my beautiful country.
Many of them for surf lessons, others that I ran into speaking French in Santa Teresa and I greet them. From there a conversation and a brief but memorable friendship was born.
But the biggest surprise of all was to receive the visit of the editor in chief of the magazine Le Guide de Routard, Mr. Benoît Lucchini. I had the pleasure of being his surf instructor for a lesson and he was so pleased that he recorded a short video with me.
For those who don’t know about Benoit and the magazine he works for, I prepared this article for you.

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Surf Tournaments in Santa Teresa

April 2, 2025Surf Newsmanager

About Surf Tournaments in Santa Teresa

Last Sunday, March 16, 2025, the second date of the National Surfing Circuit was held in Playa El Carmen. I went around and watched the competitions with friends.
According to the “Federación Costarricense De Surf”, about 3000 people attended.
I can say that if there were many people, because this circuit brings together the best Costa Rican surfers of the moment.

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Wakeboarding in Costa Rica

March 4, 2025Chillin' Articlesmanager

Wakeboarding in Nicoya

Greetings friends and friends of Costa Rica Surf and Sup. I’m thinking about creating a series of articles of activities that can be done in the Nicoya Peninsula apart from surfing.
I take advantage of the fact that a relative of mine participated in a “wakeboarding” event near Tortuga Island. The waters of the Gulf of Nicoya are very calm, almost as calm as those of a lake. That’s why this area is widely used for water activities such as kitesurfing, kayaking and windsurfing.

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The Montezuma and El Carmen Beach Market

January 27, 2025Chillin' Articlesmanager

Montezuma Beach Market

market at beach in Montezuma — The market is open at mornings in Montezuma

The communities of Santa Teresa, Cóbano and Montezuma have always been very dependent on themselves. Their remoteness from the centers of power and the most populated cities are two of the reasons why the local population produced what they consumed.

The arrival of the ferry to the community of Paquera facilitated the entry of products, services and people to the Nicoya Peninsula. However, the independent spirit of the inhabitants remained in force.
An example of this is the market held every Saturday in Montezuma and Playa El Carmen. Let’s talk a little about it.

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Cobano District, Puntarenas, Costa Rica

September 19, 2024Chillin' Articlesmanager

District of Cóbano, Puntarenas, Costa Rica

Thinking ahead to the 2025 summer season, I feel it is a good time to talk about some places on the Nicoya Peninsula. I want to help future visitors to the area to be more familiar with this part of Costa Rica.

Besides surfing lessons with me, you can enjoy many other things on the peninsula.
Let’s talk about Cobano, the 10th district of the canton of Puntarenas and is where Santa Teresa, Mal Pais, Montezuma, Tambor and the town of Cobano are located.

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Costa Rica’s Summer Season 2024 2025

August 10, 2024Chillin' Articlesmanager

Summer Season coming to Costa Rica

The summer season is coming in Costa Rica and I can’t wait to come back for it and feel the color of the beautiful beaches of Santa Teresa and Mal Pais. I anticipate a great season as more transportation options will be available to get to Costa Rica from Europe, Canada and the United States. In the Nicoya area there are many beaches that have different characteristics for surfing. I would like to talk about those as I often use them for the surf lessons.

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Surfing at Seignosse

October 4, 2023Uncategorizedmanager

Surfing tour at Seignosse, Landes

Bordering Spain, in the department of Landes, in the province of Nouvelle Aquitaine, you can find the beach where surfing became popular in France. Being here is a spiritual experience, this is where everything started in my country. I feel imbued with blessings while surfing these waves.

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Maldives Islands

July 17, 2023Uncategorizedmanager

The Maldives Islands

As I’m preparing for the next surf tour to the Maldives, I think it is a good idea to create an article about this fascinating country in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Without more hesitation, let’s start.

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Morbihan Gulf Festival

June 2, 2023Uncategorizedmanager

The Morbihan Gulf Festival

Feeling tarnished from all the work this last summer season, I decided to take a vacation this year outside of Costa Rica and I chose my homeland France as the destination to visit. I was invited by a friend of mine to Monks Island in Brittany.
I arrived just in time to enjoy the Festival of Morbihan. This event is about thousands of sailboats visiting the island in the middle of the Gulf of Morbihan. This island happens to be Monks Island.

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SUP, standing board paddling for seniors

February 15, 2023Uncategorizedmanager

SUP, standing board paddling for seniors

Recently, I had a SUP tour in the Pochote estuary with three amazing people, Claudia, Elizabeth, and Scott.
The timing couldn’t be better since I wanted to talk about how paddleboarding can be the right water activity for seniors. All of them were over 65 years old and without much experience in SUP, they were handling the rowing easily in a few minutes.

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