Nobody Warns You About the Friendship Admin Making friends as an adult is strange. When you’re younger, friendships kind of just happen to you. You sit next to someone in school, you both hate the same teacher, one of you has a PlayStation, and suddenly you spend every afternoon together for the next four years.…
I Used to Think Posture Advice Was Stupid I always thought posture was one of those things people only talked about when they had no real problems. Like, yeah cool, I’ll stand straighter and suddenly my taxes are done and my childhood is healed. Amazing. Thank you, spine. But then I started noticing something annoying.…
A Small Bar, Some Live Music, and a Lot of Courage Every Wednesday in Lajares, something amazing happens. A bar pushes the tables and chairs to the side. Musicians set up. People start arriving.Someone takes a microphone. Someone grabs a guitar. Someone else stands in the crowd, not fully sure yet if they want to…
I Used to Think More Than I Did I used to be someone who thought about everything. And I don’t mean in a healthy, reflective way. I mean thinking, planning, imagining, doubting, comparing, restarting, overanalyzing, and then somehow ending up exactly where I started. Still in my head. I had big ideas about the person…
Food Is Never Just Food I hate onions. Not in the “I prefer it without onions” kind of way.More in the “if there are raw onions in the food, I probably can’t eat it anymore” kind of way. Cooked properly, fine.Raw, crunchy, hidden somewhere in a salad or sauce — no chance. And if you…
The Conversations You Remember Are Usually the Simple Ones Some conversations stay with you. Not because someone said something incredibly smart.Or because there was a big life lesson.Or because everything was perfectly deep from the beginning. Sometimes you just sit next to someone at dinner, after a surf session, and the conversation feels easy. No…
Forgetting Names Happens to Almost Everyone You meet somebody new. They smile, shake your hand and say: “Hey, I’m James.” And somehow, about three seconds later, the name is already gone. At least that’s how it used to be for me. I wasn’t forgetting names because I didn’t care about people. Most of the time,…
I Was Always the Quiet One at the Table I was never the person with the funniest stories who was the life of their friends group. Not the loudest voice.Not the center of attention.Not the person everyone immediately noticed when walking into a room. Especially as a teenager, I struggled a lot with fitting in.…
Your own surf camp at Kyuka? Over the past months, Kyuka has slowly turned into something more than just a place where people come to surf or train. More and more often, people arrive with an idea. Sometimes clearly shaped, sometimes still foggy. But almost always coming from the same place. Right now, Nora is…
Do you have a private room? This is usually one of the first questions people ask us. Not about surfing.Not about the island.About the room. “I’m not sure if I should book a shared room or a private one.” What’s interesting is how early this question comes up. Sometimes before flights are booked. Sometimes before…
