Surf & Stay

Lifestyle journalist Veerle Helsen set her out of office at six months, bought an old camper and traveled on her own along the surf coasts of Spain and Portugal. Under the motto 'to surf, see, sleep & eat' she combines three passions: surfing, traveling, architecture and discovering the newest spots.

Discover a heavenly holiday villa where the trees grow through the roof. Or an architecturally special public swimming pool hidden between rocks on the sea. Secret beaches that are not on the map.

She wipes the classic image of Spain and Portugal from the map and writes about a different world. Unspoiled, wilder, wilder. Where beach bars serve fish directly on your plate. Where roads meander along cliffs and dunes, under fencing of pine trees, with a view of sandcastles. This guide ignores the clichés and avoids the classic tourist stories and routes.