AROUND THE COAST IN EIGHTY WAVES

Thousands of people in Britain surf but few of them have surfed all the way round. Jonathan Bennett has and this is his account of travelling clockwise round the coast, surfing every beach he could catch a wave. From the Isle of Harris to the Lizard Peninsula, from Orkney to Anglesey, from Sandwood Bay to Sussex, he shared the waves with seals, sewage and fellow surfers, meeting friendly and not-so friendly locals. Living in an old, unheated T25 campervan for fourteen months, including the coldest winter for thirty years, he was often alone and miles from civilisation.