WindsurfingUK Issue 3 May 2017 | Page 8

8 TRAVELSOUTH AFRICA WORDS: SANDY CLUNAS PICS: HEIDI JABBARI, CHRISTIE BUSHNELL AND KITTY GREGORELLI WHERE DO YOU HEAD IF YOU’VE SPENT THE WHOLE SUMMER UNDER A SCORCHIO GREEK SUN, WHERE WIND IS SERVED DAILY (WELL, MOST AFTERNOON’S AT LEAST) AND YOU NEED YOUR ENDLESS WINDSURFING SUMMER OF FUN TO CONTINUE? THE ANSWER? CAPE TOWN, SA, OF COURSE! SANDY CLUNAS SPILLS THE BEANS. Winter can be a daunting time for us windsurfers. Sure the wind picks up, but it gets colder, darker and everything just becomes a bit greyer and more miserable. For myself and the rest of us that choose to spend our summer’s sunning ourselves and sailing in the clear waters of the Ionian Sea it’s even more daunting. So, there is only one real place that offers everything a windsurfer could want during the darkest months of the northern hemisphere. And that place is Cape Town my friends. I migrated south for 12 weeks from the 6th of December ’16 till the 1st of March ‘17. It’s the perfect amount of time to really enjoy everything Cape Town has to offer, and it gets you away from the worst months on the UK calendar. uk WIND SURFING