Something About The Sea

This episode of Something about the Sea completes the trio of adventure stories, fittingly with Ella Friess, who not only had a part to play in both adventures I spoke about with Seb and Ben, but also had a pretty enormous adventure of her own branching out from where we all met up in Morocco last year. For Ella, that was just the beginning of a trip to walk the Camino de Santiago, an 839km hike a...

Last winter, knowing Seb, Grace, and a group of other crew from the Wave in Bristol were headed to Morocco, Ben wanted to plan an adventure around that as an end location. He landed on the idea of jumping aboard the Mauritania Iron Ore train, and travelling 700km through the desert, then another 1200 plus of hitchhiking to arrive at Imsouane in Morocco in January/February last year. Follow Ben her...

One year on from our France adventure, I’m re-launching Something about the Sea for a series of conversations with friends, adventurers, surfers and just some really cool folks. Expect conversations about surfing and adventure, resilience and mental health. I suspect slightly less cous-cous chat than series one (sorry cous-cous fans) but some fabulous chats with awesome people. First up is Seb. Se...

Sam and Angus are back in the UK. They sit on comfortable chairs, indoors and reflect on their 6 weeks of adventuring.

Angus and Sam reach the sea wall that marks the end of what felt like an infinitely long beach. A short episode this time, capturing that moment. A few more episodes to come as they make their way back to the UK.

Sam and Angus pay the price for wrong turning and finally get some beautiful waves in Hossegor.

It’s been a few days of a lot of walking and little phone signal or battery, so a pretty huge increase in our km count for this episode, and a whole bunch of cool stories to tell.

Back on track after the storm, Angus and Sam leave Biscarosse for phase 2 of the journey. En route they meet Kai and Nico, both cycle tourers and long term adventurers, setting up camp together for the night. This episode features an extended conversation with them talking about adventure travel, ‘real jobs’, human connection and the importance of sunlight and Argentinian Yerba Maté.

Sam and Angus pass the halfway point, and make a detour to avoid storms and surf some sheltered breaks

A day back on the beach, a lost wetsuit and more bad weather. Sam and Angus talk about testing resilience, physical challenge and the act of ‘moving on’.

Several days of rain and thunderstorms have meant focusing on walking rather than surfing. Beautiful forest, piste cyclable, biblical downpours and another abandoned shack.

Day one is complete. Sam and Angus finally have some kilometres under their boots and find interesting accommodation for a stormy evening.

Sam and Angus check in from the Royan to Soulac-sur-Mer ferry with an update from the last few days making their way south through France to the starting point of the walk.

Sam has arrived with Angus in Hampshire and final preparations are being made- reinforcing the carts and packing the van ready to set sail for France this evening.

Sam and Angus catch up from opposite sides of the UK, making some final preparations ahead of their adventure to Les Landes.

A short interview with Angus Garway. One half of the ‘Something about the Sea’ duo.

Meet the team. A short interview with Sam. One half of the ‘Something About the Sea’ duo.