In the 1930s, when the sport was still a fledgling pastime on the West Coast, American surfers looking for new breaks and tourist-free beaches headed south, to Baja California, Mexico.
From main Woolacombe beach, head north along the Esplanade for 300m.
Noon: shopping, Paddington After the beach head to Paddington for some shopping.
There was President Obama on the cover of the June 19 issue of The Economist, standing alone on a Louisiana beach, head down, looking forlornly at the ground.
Stroll 100 metres in one direction and you're at the beach, head in the other for North Berwick's shops, cafes and pubs.
For sparkling seas – and a naturist beach – head to Porthcurno, near Land's End, while adrenalin junkies should opt for Watergate Bay on the north coast where the famed Extreme Academy (watergatebay.co.uk) offers lessons in every watersport imaginable.
The company says that with some products, like Beach Head 2002, a shooting game, as many as 10percentt of those who download the hobbled version from peer-to-peer networks go on to buy the software.
Some, I suppose, might call the zero-hours contract natural progress, the evolutionary step from a sea of unionism to the beach head of capitalistic corporatism, but I would prefer to call it economic nostalgia by the ruling classes.
