Lowri Davies

After many happy times together, I am selling the FlowFree van – an ideal paddle-wagon… (click on the images to see full-size versions) It’s fully outfitted with proper double sofa-bed, stove, cupboards and leisure battery for all rear electrics. It’s well insulated, making it warm in the winter, cool in the summer and most external [...]

I wrote this a few weeks ago, but for some reason it didn’t publish – but such a memorable experience can’t just be left unmentioned so here we are a little late… I was once again lucky enough to spent Christmas snowboarding in Sun Peaks with the Laws family. This year we were joined by [...]

For the past couple of weeks we’ve had consistent rain in North Wales which has kept the rivers at lovely levels, but last night’s rain was fairly epic. All across North Wales people woke to find rivers over their banks, towns flooded and roads closed. My Mum was unable to get work and my brother [...]

I have been back in the UK for 2 months now and have been keeping myself very busy. Here’s a bit of a photo-based summary of what I’ve been up to. I arrived back just in time for Pyranhafest in the sunshine and was able to catch up with friends and compete in the fun [...]

So the World Freestyle Championships 2009 are now over; the wave, big screen, spectator stands, big air ramp and all the crowds have disappeared and I seem to be the last paddler left in Thun. There has already been awesome coverage of the event online, including live TV coverage on www.freecaster.tv and daily updates on [...]

For the past few weeks I have been getting as much time on various waves as possible in preparation for the World Freestyle Championsips which kick off in Thun in less than a week! Between training days, and after an annoying shoulder tweek, I enjoyed some hiking across the spectacular Besseggen Ridge in Norway. Full [...]

Yesterday was a wonderful day. The Nordic Freestyle Champs were held under brilliant sunshine here in Sjoa and between competing in heats and finals, I got my Masters degree results…and after 5 years of hard work and juggling commitments, I was delighted to discover I had got a First! In the freestyle, there were more [...]

Welcome to Norway – Photo: Nick Horwood In celebration of finishing Uni forever, I’ve buggered off to Norway. As the Newcastle ferry was cancelled last year, Nick Horwood, my van and I had to mission the drive from Dunkerque through France, Belgium,  Holland and Denmark to get a ferry to Norway. At the ferry port [...]

Last week I was elected Aberystwyth University’s Sports Person of the Year, a great honour which makes me extremely proud. Usually all the awards go to traditional field sports but this year myself and the canoe club dominated: I won Sports Person of the Year : This is awarded to the individual who has excelled [...]

I wrote a book. Well a 32,000 word dissertation about my project which aimed to produce software to conduct autonomous dolphin monitoring from a robotic sailing boat… As part of my Software Engineering Masters, we are required to carry out a major final year project which includes coming up with an idea and doing all [...]