Alex Mertens will probably never forget his first trip to Tarifa. The US freestyle windsurfer and film maker decided to travel to Tarifa because of a good forecast. He met with Italian freestyle windsurfer Riccardo Marca to windsurf, surf, skate, hike, take pictures and explore Tarifa and its surroundings.
Every day they were up to something different as nothing could affect them but then the coronavirus pandemic hit Europe. Alex and Riccardo were forced to stay under quarantine. They decided to stay in Tarifa but they didn’t expect what came next. Until now they have been in lockdown for almost 6 weeks. But they stayed busy, studied, did intense work outs, cooked or trained on their simulator rig in the garden of the house. And it looks like Alex will get on a plane by the end of the month and fly back to the US and Ricardo will start his journey back to Italy.
“With every experience comes a story!” (Alex Mertens)
In his latest film, Alex describes how he got affected by the coronavirus pandemic and its consequences. Alex and Riccardo managed to stay positive and creative during this period and the outcome is this great film.
“The trip that Went Sideways” starring Alex Mertens and Riccardo Marca – a windsurfing trip to Tarifa, Spain in the times of the Corona epidemic
Filmed by Alex Mertens & Riccardo Marca, Edited by Alex Mertens
Nice clip guys!! Reminds me a lot about living it up every day to 100% in the south of Spain and Portugal before the shutdown have made things complicated..It was pretty hard to see this extreme shut down coming but still we can make the best out of it, doing other stuff till we can go back to the water 😉 At least there are a way less cases of corona in Andalusia and because of the horrible situation in Madrid and Catalunya I have got the impression that luckily most of the spanish people have understood that its quite… Read more »
whouaa , Flying all the way from California to Italy then drive to Tarifa (approx. 2000km) and stay 6 weeks there. I guess this is how the 1 percent live.
Hey Pablo! There’s actually a bit of wrong communication. I flew out from Germany directly to Tarifa where I was picked up by Riccardo who was already there for almost 2 months at that time. Got my flight for 50€!
Sorry, our words were misleading. Alex was already in Europe and was supposed to stay in Europe until autumn 2020.
Hi guys, got it … thanks.
sorry being a bit shitty about it. i’m grateful for the content and obviously being unable to go out start get to me a bit . cheers