Megan Abubo blends surf and travel during France World Tour stop
NXTbets Pro | Published On: August 24, 2026
France trip
Megan Abubo turned a World Tour stop in southern France into a stretch of surf, travel and down time in the Hossegor and Seignosse area. She said the trip felt like a mix of work and vacation, and her days moved between testing sandbars, surfing and spending long hours on the beach. The off-board routine fit the setting. She also shopped at markets, ate at local restaurants and took in affordable wine and food around the area. Abubo stayed with fellow competitors Amee Donohoe and Sam Cornish, which kept the trip tied to the event even when the pace eased away from competition. The group settled into the rhythm of the trip with the kind of schedule that comes with a surf stop in a place built around the water and the coastline. Abubo also had to adjust to France’s long daylight and late mornings, a change that shaped the flow of the week. The trip gave her time in the water and time around town, with each part feeding the other. It was travel, training and leisure in the same place, and Abubo treated it that way from the start.
Competition result
Abubo finished 17th in the competition, and she said she was disappointed with that result. The placing gave the trip its clearest competitive outcome, even as the rest of the week carried a looser, more vacation-like feel. She went to France for the World Tour stop with the work of the event in mind, and the result fell short of what she wanted from the trip. That disappointment set the tone after the contest ended. Abubo joined other early losers for a night out after the event, a small release after a result that left her wanting more. The night out came from the same field of competitors who had exited early, and it gave her one more shared moment from the stop before the week moved on. The finish did not erase the rest of the experience, but it did sit at the center of how the trip closed from a competitive standpoint. Abubo had spent the days before that moving between surf sessions, the beach and local spots around Hossegor and Seignosse. The 17th-place finish became the clear mark from the event, and it carried the weight of a week that mixed competition with everything around it.
Brazil prep
After the event, Abubo spent the rest of the week sightseeing, relaxing, surfing and training before heading to Brazil. She then had a week off to recover and prepare for Brazil, which gave her a reset after the France stop and the travel that came with it. The break followed a trip that already covered a lot of ground, from the surf in southern France to the markets, restaurants and long beach days around Hossegor and Seignosse. It also came after a cut hand she suffered while surfing before departure. Jessi Miley-Dyer drove her to the hospital after the injury, and the trip there brought an extra challenge when the manual transmission gave them trouble on the way. That injury added another layer to a week that already mixed competition and travel. Abubo still kept moving through the days that followed, with sightseeing and training part of the same stretch before Brazil. The schedule gave her time to recover and get ready for what came next. By the time she left France behind, the trip had included surf sessions, a disappointing result, a night out with other early losers and a final push toward the next stop.
