Also recommended are the two reef breaks at the north end of the beach: Lage dos Tubos and Limipicos. As is often the case when surfing in Portugal ... the famed Arrifana Sunset Festival, which ...

But I lived on the ocean for years, in Pacific Beach (San Diego), and when the surf was big, compliments of a storm off the Mexican coast, I could watch the waves crash onto the sand for hours.

Porto takes pride in its beaches, old churches covered in blue-and-white tiles and its famous port wine named after the city in northern Portugal ... some beach towns banned surfing.

Sunset Beach! You know it, don't you ... This felt like what an old-timer might call real surfing. Paddling hard down the face of big, powerful waves knowing if I didn't catch the wave there ...

Surfers all over the world hail Portugal ... about surfing as they are wowed by the views along the Trilho dos Pescadores, or Fisherman’s Trail. The long sandy São Torpes beach beckons ...