Errant Works With Barnardos Tour of Schools
The UK’s biggest charity for children, Barnardos recently got in touch with Errant Surf Holidays founder Chris Thomson to see if he could join the team on the South West leg of the “Aspiration in School” tour. The idea is to reach out to school children and openly discuss dreams and goals outside the traditional walls of education.

Schools from all over the south west had been invited to meet up and chat with people from all over … Continue Reading

Every time I drive for a surf in full knowledge it is going to be amazing I seem to get stuck behind just about every possible slow moving vehicle!

It had been pretty small over the last few weeks in Newquay, and finishing up with our Cross Step course yesterday I decided to nip over to Watergate Bay for a quick high tide surf.

No joke, every single traffic light en-route turned red just as I approached. I got stuck behind an old lady who could barely see over the steering wheel, luckily she carried on … Continue Reading

Freezing snow was not enough to dampen our first video blog about surfing off the Orkney Isles. Parts of the UK struggled with a five days of disruption after the heaviest snowfalls in 18 years, but we drove onwards, upwards and sometimes sidewards!

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If you fancy heading up and surfing in Orkney we suggest staying here.

Two days ago we were due to sail from Santander, Northern Spain to Plymouth, as the day approached the swell got bigger and bigger. With the winds increasing as well, we decided for the sanity of my wife Theresa, and the well being of our children we would ditch the 22 hour sail across the Bay of Biscay in favour of a shorter five hour sailing from Roscoff in France.

Of course this still involved driving from Loredo, Spain to the tip of Northern France, a drive which would cover over 1,000km in 12 hours.

As the twisty … Continue Reading