In kiteboarding, there are trips that are part of the inevitable, great essential classics if you want to understand what everyone is talking about. And then, they are the other trips. The kind of trips that are more like an adventure, a journey off the beaten track. Saudi Arabia, if you are not a big buyer of oil wells, sounds a bit like that. We can think about the destination a thousand times in our head the reality is we have a vague, very vague idea of what our trip will be like.

It is in this state of mind that we embarked on the journey to Jeddah with Youri Soon, Sebastien Garat, Maxime Chabloz and Louka Pitot.