Stayed here for a week, and had a wonderful time! Paco was an amazing surf instructor, and I…read morelearned a lot about surfing etiquette, pop up technique, and how to turn on a wave. With morning surf lessons and afternoon free surf sessions, you really improve fast. They have professional photographers filming you in the water as well, and I got to see myself on a wave for the first time :) Thank you Latas for an amazing week!

The most stunning beach I have seen (although admitedly I have never been to the Caribbean ;), set…read morein El Sardinero, an iconic area in Santander, where you can also find a very distinctive building, the Casino. This beach is something worth seeing, especially when the tide is down, and the First and Second Sardinero beaches are joined through the corner under the Piquio Gardens, and then the First Sardinero beach is joined at the other end with the Concha beach (Shell beach). You can then walk them all up and down, having 1km and 500m more or less to walk each way. You can also walk the seaside walk all along it (and further more all the way to the city centre) without interruptions! If you like a good beach, I thoroughly recommend this one.

This has got to be one of the most beautiful beaches that I have ever seen, and I saw it in the…read morecolder/off-season. It's hard to describe a beach, so fortunately there are a lot of nice photographs to look at here. What I love about the place, one of the things, is the tides. When its out you can go and enjoy all the sand but when it comes in, there are great waves. Actually it is a great surfing beach and many take advantage of that fact. Oh, on Sunday mornings the soccer league has their games on the beach. Nice!