Counterflow

Thun and the Monster: surfing a glacier in the middle of a city

A wooden sluice bridge, a 700-year-old castle on the hill, and a wave the locals refuse to surf without a hood.

Bremgarten: the unofficial capital of Swiss surfing

Surfed since the 1960s, still going strong — the wave at Honegger Weir is where the whole scene actually started.

Urbansurf: catching a wave between two railway lines

No river, no weir, no queue — just a standing wave machine wedged into a former industrial yard.

Alaïa Bay: a surf park running on hydropower

Continental Europe's first dedicated surf park sits in a valley best known for vineyards, not swell.