Barrel – Less In Indo

In a bid to win the Write To Surf competition presented by Billabong, Ralph De Kramer shared this hilarious story of a barrel-less, chaotic trip to Indonesia after his six year relationship came to an end. Read it and weep: Everything was organised. Her favourite wine, that expensive Philadelphia cream cheese with the sweet chilli sauce – the works. Morgan’s Bay cliffs where beckoning for a romantic picnic, and I was planning on reaping the physical benefits later that night. My fiancé dismissively declined, choosing to rather watch the Mentalist on her laptop. That weekend was intended to revive our stale, moulding relationship but while chugging wine during a solo picnic I realised two things: 1) our rocky six year relationship was dead, I couldn’t marry her, it was over. 2) The money that I had been saving for honeymoon could be used for an Indo surf trip…. “Bru it’s going to be epic!” My mate Rocco practically screamed over the phone, after agreeing to join me on our maiden Indo trip. I contacted my other friends Nils and his wife Andrea who were busy travelling near the equator for a year. The timing of the trip coincided with when they would […]