The Mediterranean Is More Than A Pretty Postcard

For centuries, Sardinia was passed around like a pawn — ruled by the Romans, the Spanish, and later the House of Savoy. In 1794, the island finally had enough and exploded into the Fermata Revolution. People rose up, fed up with foreign rulers. They hid in the mountains, struck from the forests, but in the end, the rebellion was crushed. 

When Italy unified in the 19th century, Sardinians still felt like strangers to the mainland, clinging to their language and culture like a middle finger to the world. And rightly so.

Turns out, Sardinia’s waves have some bite. It’s not all limp, idle, and inconsistent. Sometimes, it’s shallow, cock-eyed rock shelves with more energy in the water than an Englishman on a Euro summer binge.

Who better to dig up overlooked surf destinations than Dylan Graves and his beautiful lovechild of a YouTube channel?

Well worth your time, and for more Italian flavour, watch our video with Rome’s favourite son, Leo Fioravanti.