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 across the northern coast of Spain.

We talk about adventure, solo travel, surf, the kindness of strangers and Nuns and walking a very very long way.

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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.

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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. Seb drove 3000 miles from Bristol to Imsouane, Morocco last winter, arriving there just as the town was being suddenly and unexpectedly demolished by the Moroccan government. I briefly caught up with Seb while he was in Imsouane but this fascinating chat happened in the back of my Van Home in Bristol, UK.