Colin’s been off on holiday again. This time he decided to forgo his normal key speaker role at the annual Model Railway Enthusiast (MRE2022) convention in Crewe, donned his finest energy-drink-branded baseball cap, and headed off to Cape Town to seek his fortune, much like a modern day extreme sports version of Dick Whittington.
What played out before him – through his unnecessarily colorfully polarized ski goggles – he’s been predicting for a while. So he is ultra-smug to fill you in on how three lads, scarcely old enough to buy themselves a pint afterwards, have left the King of the Air establishment sobbing in their hire cars outside KFC Bloubergstrand.
Kiteboarding, since its inception, has had an identity problem. It’s been dangerously similar to other sports, which has given it an air of existential crisis – kiteboarding has been back at its parent’s house aged 32 without a job. Stuck in a
