At the end of the last episode of Torren Martyn’s Lost Track Atlantic series, we found him departing from Northern Scotland on a hot-foot mission south across the continent to meet an imminent swell in Morocco.

This episode begins with the subsequent trip down through Europe, which takes in many of the tropes, if not the waves, familiar to those who’ve embarked on similar sojourns. There’s crisp Basque mornings, the sound of rain splattering hard on the window, the ever-present glow of the Repsol’s neon signage and a cancelled ferry for good measure. But, when they finally make it to Africa the buffet of sights, sounds and cylinders that greet them leave no doubt the mad dash was worth it.

In fact, for a surfer adoring of warp-speed right-hand spinners, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better destination or a more perfectly timed strike…