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Day In The Life… Matt Bloomfield
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Surf trip por las costa Alentejana portuguesa con NICO y sus amigos.
Tocaba bajar a Portugal con el joven NICO #Nikidora a pasar unos días por el sur de Portugal, huyendo del crudo invierno de la costa cantábrica. Nuestra primera parada era en el taller de DAN COSTA para recoger su nuevo y flamante tablón, su primer nueve pies, NICO se nos hace mayor y su anterior […]
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“THE RINCON model” Singlefin surfboard by McTavish.
The Rincon is one of the most popular models slipping out the door of our new Byron headquarters showroom. How come so well appreciated and admired by so many happy wave sliders? Well, the Rincon satisfies the needs of so many Aussies: An easy paddling, easy wave catching midlength. A board that will handle one-foot […]
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Study Abroad Student Justifies Another Party As A “Cultural Experience”
North American study abroad student, Sally Peterson, 20, has justified yet another drunken weekend away as being beneficial not only to her time in Europe, but also to her education and general growth as a well-rounded young adult.
The business student has made a point of going out almost every single night of the week, and away literally every weekend, as she claims this is a once in a lifetime experience, despite having already travelled extensively through Europe with her family, and vowing to meet up on the continent next summer for a one-year reunion with the friends she’s made while pretending to study this semester.
“I know that my parents didn’t spend all this money sending me abroad just so I’d actually study,” the Lambda Iota Tau sorority member justified to Stoke News, “just so long as I pass it’s good enough for them. And really, all the classes we’re doing are walkthroughs, because the university here doesn’t want us to fail. I turn up everyday hungover, or not at all, and i’m breezing through the coursework.”
While Peterson does justify her weekly routine of bars and nightclubs as being culturally enriching, it’s the trips away where she really hams up the experience to her family and friends. “Oh yeah, mom and dad love hearing about my weekend in the ‘Principality of Andorra’, one of the smallest states in Europe, a tax haven, and not a member of the EU… but I never mention that I spent the whole weekend doing shots, skiing, or being hungover.
“Las Fallas is another one that’s super easy to pass off as an enriching experience, I just tell them that it’s an ‘ancient tradition’ and then explain how bizarre the burning of the statues is – I even tell them that we’re having paella for lunch, because it’s a Valencia thing, but leave out the four jugs of sangria that we had with it.”
The imaginative student was even able to spin a spring break trip to Ibiza as being an integral part of her intrepid adventures abroad. “Oh ya, well I just told my parents about the neolithic archaeological sites in the Balearic Islands – it’s important to call them that even though Ibiza doesn’t have any they don’t know that, and if I say the “I” word they will get suspicious because that’s the place where people take pills. So yeah it’s a trip to the Balearics. Haha. I’m going to get so lit out there.”
With Springfest in Munich neatly rounding out her time abroad, Peterson really looks forward to fooling her parents with that one. “Haha, well it’s just an excuse to drink beer, right? Wrong! Munich is the centre of European business, it’s where Hitler started his rise to power with the beer hall putsch, so there’s my excuse to go to the beer halls! Man, it’s too easy, Europe is so full of history and culture and I think 99% of it is linked to getting super wasted. Getting wasted is a cultural experience! So let’s do some more shots, they’re educational!”
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Man Realises Running With Bulls Is A Bad Idea
Sydney man, Dave Evans, 26, has come to the conclusion that running with fighting bulls is definitely a bad idea. Evans, who has been living in London and is now travelling around Europe, came to the obvious realisation about 30 seconds into Pamplona’s infamous bull run.
“I don’t know why, but it was always something that I’ve wanted to do. It was always on the bucket list. So when we were planning the summer in Europe there was no way we were going to miss Pamps. All my mates are the same. And to be honest, in the weeks, days and even the night before the bull run we were super amped, just excited, you know?
“Then on the morning we were where the bulls come and getting ready for the run, and people were taking it seriously, stretching and wearing running shoes, and that started to worry me because I was still pretty drunk. Then the crowd starts jumping up and down and chanting, and you can see people who look like they’ve done it before are scared. By that stage I started having second thoughts but couldn’t get out. We were locked in.
“All of a sudden there’s this loud bang, where a cannon’s gone off, and that’s signalling the start of the bull run, so we start running, not too fast, but running and looking over my shoulder, but all I can see is people running towards me…
“And then they part and I see this huge bull running towards me, and it’s at that moment that I realise that this is a really, really fucken bad idea.”
Evans admits that it doesn’t take a rocket surgeon to work out that running with aggressive half-tonne horned animals is not what would be considered a wise choice.
“Yeah I’ve got no business being near animals like that, fuck, the closest I’ve been to a bull is eating a Big Mac, so I don’t know why I thought I should be in the bull run. They’re massive and they’re fast and those horns look fucken sharp, too. As soon as I saw the bull I ran straight to the side and tried to jump out of the way, but it was impossible, I kinda just had to stand there and hope the bull didn’t want to gore me, and thankfully it didn’t.
“But once the first one past there was another five of them! Plus all the steers, which are bigger than bulls, but they say cruisier, but there’s no way I was going to test that out. You’ve got bulls, and steers, and then the locals are just running over people and there are guys hitting you with sticks if you get too close to them, man, that’s just a really stupid fucken idea. Running with bulls? Why?”
But while Evans is now fully aware of just what a terrible idea running with bulls is, he hasn’t ruled out doing it again.
“Yeah look, we’re here for a couple of days, and we’re going to check out the street parties and eat all the tapas, there are some concerts and fireworks here in town that we’re going to check out, and then where we’re staying, with Stoke, they’ve got a full festival going on with a bunch of bands from Australia and here in Pamplona, and they’ve got free beer, so for sure we’re going to get blind all night, which means that at some point we’ll forget that running with bulls is a really dumb, totally stupid idea and probably decide to do it again tomorrow. I mean, why not, we’re only young once”
And while there are many reason why Evans, or anybody, should not run with bulls again, or ever, still year in, year out thousands flock to Pamplona for the San Fermin festival, and without any training, and usually still intoxicated from the night before, throws themselves in front of fighting bulls for reasons nobody, not even the participants, know.
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Free Beer!
Now that we’ve got your attention, practically free beer.
One of the things folks love most about Stoke Travel is that we offer practically free and unlimited beer and sangria at our festivals, destinations and events.
When you arrive we’ll give you a welcome drink on the house, an ice cold/lukewarm beer or a sangria made according to our grandma’s family recipe. All you have to do is turn up and we’ll land a drink in your hand. It’s our way of saying, Thank you, we know your journey has been long, but you’re with friends now. Put your backpack down, relax, let’s fucken party.
That’s a free beer. Where else in the world will you get a free beer just for turning up? Uncle Keith’s backyard BBQ, sure, but there you have to repay the favour with detailed plans of just what you’re doing with your life. We ask for nothing in return.
Once the free drink is consumed you have two options. You can either leave it at that, or you can partake in our all-you-can-drink beer and sangria bar for €10 a day. That’s right, for a measly ten euros you can drink all the beer and sangria you want, so long as the bar is open.
Nobody else does this, because they can’t or don’t want to. But at Stoke we see the value in getting all of our Stokies nice and buzzed, opening up the banter highways and maybe lubing up those hips for a shimmy across the dancefloor. We don’t want to open cash bars and drain your wallets just so you can have a good time, so for the price of one Oktoberfest beer, or two sangrias in a Spanish bar, we’ll let you drink as much as you want.
We keep the bar open as long as possible, which varies from destination to destination, but is usually from the morning until the music is turned off, and as far as how much you can drink, so long as you’re having fun and not being a dickhead you can keep on going.
The free and unlimited beer and sangria bar is available at almost all of our destinations (Morocco we can’t!), and at some we offer something special in line with the local flavour, like:
- German beer at Springfest and Oktoberfest
- Bull Bites at San Fermin/Pamps/Running of the Bulls and Stoked in the Park Pamplona
- Cider at the San Sebastian Surf Camp
- Vino at San Vino/the Wine Fight
- Bloody Marys on the morning of La Tomatina
And surely there’ll be more, we’re really just making this up as we go along. We’re not saying that you have to drink to have a good time, but we are saying that when you have a few with like-minded travellers from around the world a good time usually ensues, and if you want to drink we’re going to make it easy for you.
Who doesn’t love practically free beer?
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Will You Find Love At Stoke Travel?
A shameless attempt to cash in on Valentine’s Day
Yes, yes you will find love at Stoke Travel. But love is strange and comes in many forms, so the real question is which form of love will you find while you’re with us? Lucky for you we’ve been in the love game for some time now, so long that we’re often known as “The Lovers’ Choice”, and it’s been pretty easy for us to pull together this little list of some of the kinds of love you’ll find at Stoke Travel.
Temporary Love
This is the most common type of love found at Stoke Travel and it’s all yours if you want it. Temporary love is the love between a man and a woman or two women, or three men,or whatever, a love that doesn’t last long but burns brightly. Temporary love is usually forged at our famous campsite parties, when eyes are locked across the dancefloor and moves are traded like two birds of paradise shaking their impressive plumage to Missy Elliot. Once the gyrating is approved it’s on to the small talk, perhaps one member of the party will suggest that they get a drink, and hilariously claim that it’s on them despite the beers and sangrias being bottomless (€10 all-you-can-drink beer and sangria bar at almost all our destinations). At some point the braver party will go in for a lean in and then you’ll be making out hard in the public eye, really going for it. At some point the age-old question of “your tent or mine?” will have to be asked, where you’ll retreat for some awkward fooling around on air mattresses and backpacks, before stealing heat off each other for the night and then going your separate ways in the morning.
Rating: four out of five awkward goodbyes.
Love Yourself
You can love yourself in many different ways, some appropriate for Stoke Travel and some not, the bottom line being that you should love yourself often, always. At Stoke it’s not so easy to love yourself as you don’t really get all that much alone time – even the solo tents are a mere few inches and a couple of layers of sound-porous nylon from your neighbours, and there is often a line for the showers and toilet cubicles with every impatient soul an impediment to getting your rocks off. Nevertheless if there’s a will there’s always a way and if you need to love yourself –perhaps your quest for temporary or more meaninglful love has been fruitless – you’ll work out how to do it, and while we don’t want to know about it, we respect you for getting it done.
Recommended: maybe take a little walk into the forest and love yourself amongst nature.
Love Everybody
We’re not specifically talking about orgies here, although when thousands of fun loving travellers get together at the world’s biggest and best parties group love is an inevitable eventuality. What we’re talking about is finding the right amount of Oktoberfest beer, or Pamplona sangria, mixing it with some of the greatest experiences a traveller will ever encounter, and realising just how great life is and how wonderful your new friends are. It’s that moment when you do, indeed, love everybody and everything, because there’s a collusion of factors that have come together just right and how lucky are you to be a part of it all! This affliction is sometimes known as an “affection erection” and is identified by the sufferer wearing a huge, stupid grin, looking around at everybody in their vicinity with wide shining eyes, and proclaiming How good is this! What’s your name man? And so on.
See also: MDMA
Special Love
This is a less common type of love found at Stoke Travel, but that’s because it’s special. Special love isn’t temporary, or at least it doesn’t feel temporary while you’re wrapped up in its fuzzy embbrace. Special love forms from a connection beyond a stupid grin across the dancefloor and some awkward shaking of the posterior. It can be born over eating an included cooked breakfast, or under a tree on one of the grassed chillout areas, or on the shuttle ride into the festival. It requires more talking than its common, carnal cousin, a meeting of the minds, one that you will have every intention of following up on next time your paths cross, or indeed manipulating the paths so they come together again sooner rather than later. Because Stoke Travel attracts a diverse array of travellers that span nationalities, age brackets and backgrounds, you will meet people here you may not have spent a lot of time with beforehand, and maybe, just maybe, you’ll fall in special love with them. There have been plenty of couples who met at Stoke Travel who have gone on to get marrried and even divorced, so keep an eye out for your future ex-husband/wife when you’re with us next.
Loving Life
This one is the final and the most accesible of all the Stoke Travel loves, the love you’ll find when you’re travelling with like-minded legends from around the world, to the craziest parties and festivals, at destinations so gorgeous you’ll have to pinch yourself, with a travel company that is hopelessly devoted to making sure that you have the best time possible, be whoever you want to be, meet whoever you want to meet, and that’s probably why Stoke Travel is known as the company of love, because we really do adore showing you the best times and having them with you. Isn’t that just lovely? So lovely we kind of want to puke.
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Big Moron Doesn’t Book With Stoke Travel For Running Of The Bulls
Travelling cretin, Jake Sampson, 28, has confirmed his status as an absolute dummy by not booking with Stoke Travel for 2018’s Running of the Bulls festival.
The A-grade moron appears to have weighed up his options and decided that it was in his best interests to book with an inferior company, despite Stoke Travel clearly offering more and charging less than the competition.
Village idiot Sampson disregarded that Stoke Travel consistently has the biggest and best crowds across all of Europe’s festivals, and stupidly wasn’t swayed by their inclusion of pre-erected tents, inflatable air mattresses and sleeping bags at no extra cost. The dunce was similarly unimpressed that Stoke Travel includes a cooked breakfast and dinner every day, as well as their €10 all-you-can-drink beer and sangria bar, and still decided to book his trip to the famous Pamplona festival with a different company that will no doubt disappoint the dimwitted traveller.
Friends say that Sampson, the stupid fuck, wasn’t even interested in Stoked in the Park – the music and culture festival that happens at Stoke Travel’s campsite during San Fermin – despite Stoke bringing in Australian and local bands and DJs, pool parties, a marketplace for local wine and produce and food trucks, making the perfect party to recover from the bull run, or to prepare for a night in the world’s biggest street fiesta.
When pressed on his utterly shithouse choice, Sampson attempted to justify the piss-poor decision making. “Yeah nah, the other campsite is a little bit closer to the Pamplona city centre, so even though I’ll still have to catch the bus every day into town, it’ll be for five minutes less.”
Artur Toro, a professor in Pamplona campgrounds at the University of Navarra, explains Sampson’s shithouse justification. “Si, the other campsite is a little closer to Pamplona city centre, but from there or from Stoke’s campsite you’ve got to catch a bus, so it doesn’t really matter. The Stoke Travel campsite is just such a better option, they’ve got plenty of grass and trees for shade, while the other one is pretty much a dust pit in the sun all day, and there’s a river running through the Stoke campsite, so that’s pretty bloody nice. That’s not even taking into consideration the massively better job that Stoke Travel does, especially with the Stoked in the Park festival, that already has 10 bands confirmed. It’s going to be sick. That Sampson guy really does seem like a fucken dummy for not choosing Stoke Travel.”
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Beau Young, short, long, Midlenth. Surfer total.
Beau Young el australiano sobradamente conocido por todos nosotros, proveniente de una saga mítica de surfers, con Nat Young su padre al frente, que fue campeón del mundo a finales de los 60. Al igual que su padre Beau lo fue también pero en el 2000 y 2003 retirado desde hace mas de una década […]
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