Well hello all! From the magic city of Paris, Matt's family and I caught a train up to Normandy France to visit his dad's side of the family. Matt's Grandparents have a beach house on Omaha Beach, inside the small town called Vierville-sur-Mer. Their modest 3 level nautical themed house sits about 100 yards from the beach and has a quite an extensive backyard and garden where the many little Lebrec's run, yell, and play from dawn to dusk. We arrived here ar...

Got into Paris around 8:30 pm after a 4 hour train ride that took us from the quite, warm, and tropical Southern French countryside to this busy and chaotic metropolitan center to stay as a resting point on our way up to Normandy. After a quick bus ride and a block walk we arrive at Matt's grandparent's apartment, a quaint and proper flat looking out on the tight busy streets of downtown Paris, only 2 blocks from the famed Eifel Tower! After dropping off our ...

Yesterday was definitely one of the best experiences I have had so far in France. Matt's grandparents decided to take the two if us out to dinner to get a chance to have some time with him and get to know me better too. We were trying to find somewhere that were serving mussels, since I had commented on how much I like them earlier in the week. But unable to find a place that had them with air conditioning (yesterday was also the hottest day so far this summ...

Hello all! Well yet another great day here in Hossegor. Today its about 95 degrees, with clear blue sunny skies and very refreshing cool water. Got up around 8 today and headed out to go surf at a nearby beach with one of Matts good friends who goes to school in Paris and stays here in Hossegor to surf in the summer as well. Waves were pretty small today, about 1 meter but made for great waves for me to get use to my take offs on my new board, which has bee...

Bonjour mes amies! Well here I am in Hossegor, in Souther France, got here 2 days ago and have been having an absolute blast living the French life. Its currently about 7 in the morning, waiting for Matt( Frenchie)(my roommate whos family has this amaxing house that Im staying at here in France) to wake up so we can go surfing this morning. So yes, I am truly living the life of a prp surfer., except Im no where near their level, at all. But france has and is a...