Guides

Six hours into a drive to the coast, the Alps are still filling the windscreen and the last thing your legs want is another two hours sitting down. The stretch between Munich and the Mediterranean happens to run past three...

It's 6 a.m., the car is loaded, and you're an hour into the drive before you realise the fin key is still sitting on the kitchen counter in Munich. On a multi-country trip — river, lake, and ocean, three sets...

Somewhere between loading the car in Munich and paddling into a Mediterranean swell near Nice, you cross three completely different kinds of water: a shallow river, a deep Alpine lake, and open ocean. Bring one fin for all three and...

You've mapped the drive from Munich to the Mediterranean. Now the actual question: where do you stop and paddle? Driving eight hours to a beach and never touching water in between is a waste of a road trip. Below are...

5:40 a.m., Flaucher car park, Munich. The Eisbach is still running clean under the bridge, the board rack on the roof is loaded with two boards and three fins, and the GPS says 9 hours 15 minutes of driving to...

You're paddling into a shallow river wave, feeling confident — until your fin clips a submerged rock. In the ocean, that might bend a fin or leave a scratch. On a river, it snaps a carbon fin clean off. Ask...