The thought of the Web Summit coming to Lisbon is taking the whole startup community in Portugal by storm. Startup Ship initiated a movement called “Bring the Web Summit 2016 to Lisbon” and announced the 7 reasons for the Web Summit to be in Lisbon, to help convince the organisers of the event to choose the Portuguese capital. We couldn’t just look the other way. We want the Web Summit in Lisbon and we’re joining the movement… Here’s to reason number 8.

8. Portugal is the best country for surfing in Europe

Have you heard about the Surf Summit? It is organised by the Web Summit in the west coast of Ireland, right after the big conference. It brings entrepreneurs, investors and professional surfers together for 3 days of surfing and outdoor activities. Well, coincidence or not, Portugal is the best country in Europe for surfing.

Did you know that the world’s biggest wave ever surfed by Garret Mcnamara was in Portugal? Oh, wait, and did you know that Garret Mcnamara himself will be attending the Surf Summit this year? That’s right, we should bring the Surf Summit to Lisbon and get in the water for some awesome surf.

Not so far away from Lisbon you can find great surfing spots such as Ericeira or Peniche, and even Nazaré, where the huge wave was surfed. However, we don’t really recommend to surf in Nazaré in December, unless you consider yourself to be as good as Garret Mcnamara…

In other words, the surf’s up in Lisbon so, let’s not only bring the Web Summit to Lisbon, let’s bring the Surf Summit as well.

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