Ed Templeton had woken up in Zurich, Switzerland, that morning, but by the early afternoon he\u2019d arrived by train in Germany. He was visiting the city of Munich, and after dropping his bags at a central hotel, he walked to the city\u2019s Englischer Garten. \u201cIt\u2019s one of the biggest parks in Europe,\u201d he says, and home to the Eisbach river\u2019s famous artificial wave. \u201cThe surfers follow unwritten rules based on respect that are fascinating to watch. They line up on either side of the river and take turns. When one surfer falls off the wave and is swept away in the current, another jumps on, and everyone cheers each other on. It\u2019s methodical and quite mesmerising. It takes great skill to jump from the wall into the wave, and manoeuvre back and forth in such a narrow space.\u201d<\/p>\n
He took this image from a bridge, because \u201cwhile the banks on either side of the river create a perfect amphitheatre to watch, it gets so packed, it\u2019s tough to find an open spot\u201d. Despite this, Templeton adds that \u201cthe spectators are very quiet, mostly watching in awe, so it\u2019s quite peaceful and relaxing to find a perch in the shady forest\u201d.<\/p>\n
Templeton took the shot on his phone and says, \u201cI have no rules for iPhone shots. Cropping, jacking up the colours \u2013 it\u2019s all fair game!\u201d<\/p>\n
skip past newsletter promotion<\/a><\/p>\n Sign up to Inside Saturday<\/p>\n The only way to get a look behind the scenes of the Saturday magazine. Sign up to get the inside story from our top writers as well as all the must-read articles and columns, delivered to your inbox every weekend.<\/p>\n Privacy Notice: <\/strong>Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. For more information see our Privacy Policy<\/a>. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy<\/a> and Terms of Service<\/a> apply.<\/p>\n after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n He awoke next day keen to return to the park for a\u00a0swim, but the sun had been replaced with pouring rain. \u201cWe never got a chance to get in the water,\u201d Templeton says. \u201cI felt as if I missed out on a great experience, so I hope I\u2019ll get to return one day.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ed Templeton had woken up in Zurich, Switzerland, that morning, but by the early afternoon he\u2019d arrived by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3939],"tags":[4021,4020,4022,77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-385129","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-design","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}