Estagnots plage, South West France – Sunday morning 9am; It’s raining; I’m sat in my car at Estagnots while my friend Dee surfs the head high waves that appeared this morning. It’s been big and onshore for over a week so the car park is busy with surfers making the most of the calm in the storm. I’m going through the notes I made during the 20 minute conversation I had with Guy last week. I really want to give you a different insight, find something that shows us another side of him, but as much as I’m trying, I can’t. From the moment he answered my call he was his usual happy, animated, self…
- So, where are you?
- We’re in Ceylon, Sri Lanka and it is epic!! The people are so cool and lovely. It’s amazing! 31 degree water, there have been waves every day and this morning the line-up was full of turtles…
- Have you been to Sri Lanka before?
- No. We came because my other half used to come here years ago and she’s always said how amazing and chilled out the place is…it’s wicked. Last night we went to a restaurant on the beach. They’d just caught this big bucket full of giant prawns and they made them into a curry with coconut and lime which we washed down with bottles of Lion Beer.
- I’m jealous
- This place rocks out. We’ve been to temples in the jungle, a tea plantation, scuba diving, my mate even went to a cookery class! We’ve been up and down the West coast, Hikkaduwa, Midigama, Mirissa. We’re staying in a place called Kabalana at the moment – there’s a sick left-hander right in front of our hotel which we’ve been sharing every morning with surfers from all over the world; Japan, France, Sweden, Israel. The boys have been laughing because I’ve been whooping everyone and now they’re all my mates. I now know where all the best surf spots are in Tel Aviv (laughing). This is one of the coolest countries I have ever been too, we’ve been here for nearly a month and every day has been awesome.
…the conversation carried on in the same vain. I didn’t bother asking him about work, because I know he’s always reluctant to talk about it even though tennis is the reason we asked him to take part in this series in the first place. But, TAKE 5 is all about, discovering an insght into the different lifestyles of professional sports men and women and I definitelty feel that we have done that with Guy; the problem is, he’s making me more and more envious every time I speak to him.
Lucia