“Nowa- days, it has to be a last-minute decision — whether it’s for a trip with buddies or a commercial shoot. We had a small window and a big desire (more like an urge, with winter already in full strike) to surf clean waves. We shifted from Morocco to Galicia until eventually setting up our target on the NW of France.

There were no perfect waves, lots of farts, dirty (sometimes funny) jokes, and a true feeling of freedom — the sense that we could go wherever that damn chunky Defender could take us and marvel at simple things, whether that’s a funny drunk at the bar or a beautiful cold sunrise.” — Clovis Donizetti