Gros

This guide to Gros in San Sebastián starts with Iñaki Arteche in the autumn of 1964, staring at a Life magazine cover showing a woman holding a surfboard unlike anything he had ever seen in Spain. With no internet, no shop and nobody to ask, he shaped his own board from two blocks of polystyrene and carried it alone onto a Sunday train out of the city. You'll hear how Gros itself spent most of its history as the unglamorous side of town, sandy flats and workshops named for a local landowner, while its own shoreline was considered too rough for anyone to safely swim. The guide follows that reputation right up to the engineering change that reshaped the coastline decades later.