Does anyone know where the best flatwater spot in europe is? easy to get to ? relatively cheap? and warm! please let me know what you think are the best spots and why! would much appreciate it

Claire

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cheap, warm, flatwater - that definately doesn`t sound like Europe. mainly it`s cold, crowdy and expensive

what time of the year are you thinking to come over?

Gokova in Turkey maybe the cheapest flatwater spot? Don't think wind kicks in till spring there though...

Beauduc South of France , tomorrow 24th we expect a nice 40 knts and a very nice 5°C

somewhere France Med on the etangs (lakes)?

Also Sicily (Italy) has a flat water spot on the west coast.

Look stuff up here: www.splocs.com

The Mar Menor near Murcia, Southeast Spain is a great spot... used to live near there. It's also known as "La Manga del Mar Menor" or "Isla del Ciervo". This is the current forecast: http://www.windguru.cz/int/index.php?sc=48829. (In Windguru the spot is called Los Nietos.) It's a landlocked saltwater lagoon and you can kite in any wind direction. It\s also cheap because of the crisis in Spain - especially renting a room/apartment.

Let me know if you need more info!

Prasonisi in Rhodes, Greece, where I live, has a flat side and a wave side some 150 m apart (you can walk from one to the other without landing the kite... ). Wind is really constant in the summer. Rescue available at a fee for the off shore flat side by the windsurf/kite stations. Cheaper than most places esp. mow that the crisis is on. No swimmers really (most of them have already been killed by kiters ). Sand everywhere, very safe to be dragged from the wave side to the flat side by a looping out of control kite . Come and visit!