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Irish woman is the first to surf in Iran
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When Irishwoman Easkey Britton climbed onto a surfboard on a beach in Iran, the whole of the local village turned out to watch.
"They were just so friendly and so curious - they hadn't seen surfing before," she said.
Easkey, 26, now stars in a documentary about becoming the first woman to surf in the Islamic country.
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Easkey travelled to southern Iran last September with Marion, who is French. It was a journey that transformed the women's view of the country.
"We headed off to this Islamic Republic as two women looking for waves," she said.
It seemed a little bizarre and they had a few preconceptions that were quickly squashed.
"The moment we landed, people were incredibly welcoming and Iran has an amazing heritage. Yes, as women we had to have our heads covered and it was incredibly hot."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-19802822
It's a nice story, I think. Wouldn't most of us love to go around the world doing what you love doing most? Nice that she learnt a bit more about the country and that it didn't match up to her initial ideas of what it would be like.
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I love surfing but I think somewhere like Iran would put me off as much as sharks would.
When was the first man
'they hadn't seen surfing before'.
Iranians are a well educated and fairly advanced lot and I would be surprised if they hadn't.
Nice to hear stories like this though.
http://tedchang.free.fr/WestAsia/Iran/BandarBeach.jpg
I saw a programme a few years ago in which Iranian women went skiing in the mountainous area of Iran, away from the 'religious police'. Only there they were able to wear western style ski clothes and mingle freely with other skiers.
I find it very sad that people's freedoms are so curtailed by religious beliefs. My favourite thing is swimming, and I can't imagine what it would feel like if I was suddenly forbidden to do it, or only permitted to do it under very limited conditions.
I reckon a page full has gone.
How odd that a full page of uncontentious posts seem to have vanished, mine included.
And mine. I wonder what we said that was so unacceptable? The gist of mine was that it would have been wonderful if the story was un-newsworthy because all women in Islamic countries could do unremarkable things like this whenever they wanted to.
Is that really such an unacceptable thing to say?
I'll say for the record (as transient as it will seemingly stand) that I said nothing remotely contentious about 'the woman', 'Iran', or anything else. My first post expressed surprise merely at the timing, and I queried when the first man might have surfed there, just as comparison. Obviously surfing is going to be far more popular in some countries than others, not that I thought national statistics were kept everywhere on that kind of thing.
It's a mystery, as Toyah would have said!!
Mine was a joke, a decent one too for a change.
So you missed the bit where the police checked up on them to see they were ok?
Good to see English comprehension standards in the UK are at an all time high, eh?