Garrett McNamara on Nazaré: the surfer’s favourite town in Portugal — theguardian.com

American surfer Garrett McNamara travels around the world chasing big waves. But there’s one place that keeps drawing him back: Nazaré on Portugal’s Atlantic coast. The seaside resort, 75 miles north of Lisbon, is where he set a new world record in 2009, surfing a 90ft wave, and where he claimed to have broken his own record in January 2013, catching a 100ft wave. But Nazaré is more than just a surfing hotspot for him: he married his American wife there, at the chapel on the cliffs overlooking Praia do Norte (north beach).

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