While We Were All Locked Inside During Last Weekend’s Historic Storm, This Maltese Man Actually Went Surfing

If you’re anything like me, you’re not ashamed to say that you spent the Dnegel storm locked inside like a sensible adult. I spent all day sat on the sofa, armed with a big bag of popcorn and my Netflix episode paused as I scrolled through Facebook to watch the updates on the fish videos and the cows running.

But this particular man wasn’t content with just looking on. So he grabbed his windsurfing board, headed to Għadira and in the midst of Malta’s record-breaking storm, he surfed.

Those closest to him had mixed reactions, to say the very least.

There were those who hailed him as the new dnegel:

And there was lots of commentary on his, um, genitalia:

While others who were agreed that no, this shouldn’t be a thing to be doing when there are over 100km/hr winds around.

What do you think of this surfer braving the waves during Storm Dnegel?

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