Around The World In 80 Waves

Having completed the journey I have been looking at what it took to get me from North Wales to North Wales via a beach or two.

This is a summary of some of the numbers involved:

• 36 Plane Flights – most of which came with the opportunity to pay through the nose to practise my ding repair skills.
• 3 Corrupt Policemen – all of whom got diddly squat from me
• 60 Countries – visited, seen or time spent with the nationals
• 3 Suspiciously large grey fish sighted adjacent to me in the water. I don’t want to know about what I didn’t see
• 15 Cars driven – With the Little Green Surf Machine being my favourite.
• 4 Mopeds treated to my personal brand of abuse
• 9 Surfboards ridden – one of which is probably still making a baggage handler in Santiago, Chile a very happy man
• 29 Boats – which ferried me, my surf boards and my vehicles to breaks worldwide
• A large number of Hotels and Hostels – including a handful of questionable patronage
• 2 Campervans
• 12 Telephone Numbers
• 32 Trains
• 1 Tuk-Tuk
• 5 Trams – in San Francisco and Hong Kong
• 3 Oceans surfed
• Countless new friends
• 19 Buses – of which I don’t think one seat was designed with me in mind
• Cost? I will admit I spent more than a pound and less than a billion, but won’t offer more than that.