Grey Skies, Green Waves: A Surfer's Journey Around the UK and Ireland

By Tom Anderson

A surfer's wet and wild journey through Britain and Ireland Tom Anderson has always loved surfing—anywhere except the UK. But a chance encounter leads him to a series of adventures on home surf. As he visits the popular haunts and secret gems of British surfing he meets the Christians who pray for waves (and get them), loses a competition to a non–existent surfer, is nearly drowned in the River Severn, and has a watery encounter with a pedigree sheep. All this rekindles his love affair with the freezing fun that is surfing the North Atlantic.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Summersdale
• Release date: Jun 1, 2010
• ISBN: 9781848394414

Tom Anderson

Tom Anderson was born in Watford and grew up in Porthcawl. He worked as a private investigator for a range of clients after studying at the University of Glamorgan, before developing a travel writing career using journeys taken as a surfer. The Actaeon Tide is his fiction debut.

Reviews for Grey Skies, Green Waves

[pdcread · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Anderson is a enthusiastic amateur surfer who in this book is discovering and re-discovering the best spots to surf in the UK, and Ireland. He journey for surfing nirvana takes him from the Outer Hebrides, Cornwall, his home patch of Porthcawl, a remote north Wales spot and on the far west coast of Ireland.

It is much a journey of discovery for him to see what the UK has to offer surfers who have been spoilt by overseas waves, as well as a record of memorable surfing days. He writes with eloquence and clarity, and makes the subject accessible and fascinating for non surfers.