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The Bum Trip

Published April 17th, 2012

You don’t always get waves, the weather can be crap, your accommodation can burn down and there’s the inevitable rolling of the rental car into some poor sods house when you drive back from the local fleshpot smashed out of your mind... We’ve all done that.

Some trips go good, some go bad and some end up with you face down unconscious with your hands gaffa taped to the side of your head; whilst half a bottle of Jack does it best to melt your brain into liquid snot. These things happen, they’re unavoidable.

It’s the trips where the surf is lacking that things tend to go the wrongest.

If you surf all day you’re knackered, you eat, you pick sand out of your hair and you fall asleep on the sofa/bed/partner. When there’s no surf people get bored, especially ADD surfers with a four-second attention span. A day or so and there’s a polite consensus to keeps things civilised. After a week the inmates take over the asylum. It’s a given.

Scraping by through onshores, no surf or general bad lu ...

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