| Karl Bushby 06:55 - Oct 31 with 867 views | cinnamonITFC |
He’s so close to home now! Guessing he won’t beat us to Hull though?!
I’m really surprised by the lack of media coverage to be honest. I mean I know it’s on BBC news, but considering the incredible achievement I’m surprised it’s not got more coverage! I thought there would be a huge crowd when he landed in Dover but it was just a few people!
Hoping it’s the top news story (and there’s a big crowd!) when he gets to Hull - he deserves it!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/art |  | | |  |
| Karl Bushby on 08:16 - Oct 31 with 722 views | MattinLondon |
It is an incredible achievement but on quite a few levels it’s still not exactly a feel good story that will capture a lot of the media attention.
He left his son when he was only eight and in order to complete his adventure he has only seen him a few times over the course of almost thirty years. He’s only seen his mum a few times as well.
So to many, he abandoned his family for the sake of his own adventure- that’s why this story has lacked media coverage. But now he’s closer to home, that may well change. |  | | |
| Karl Bushby on 08:34 - Oct 31 with 689 views | cinnamonITFC |
| Karl Bushby on 08:16 - Oct 31 by MattinLondon |
It is an incredible achievement but on quite a few levels it’s still not exactly a feel good story that will capture a lot of the media attention.
He left his son when he was only eight and in order to complete his adventure he has only seen him a few times over the course of almost thirty years. He’s only seen his mum a few times as well.
So to many, he abandoned his family for the sake of his own adventure- that’s why this story has lacked media coverage. But now he’s closer to home, that may well change. |
That’s a really interesting point that I hadn’t thought about.
Yes certainly adds a complexity to the story… | | | |
| Karl Bushby on 08:39 - Oct 31 with 674 views | MattinLondon |
| Karl Bushby on 08:34 - Oct 31 by cinnamonITFC |
That’s a really interesting point that I hadn’t thought about.
Yes certainly adds a complexity to the story… |
But to be fair, there might well be circumstances regarding his relationship with his then young boy which haven’t been made public. | | | |
| Karl Bushby on 09:21 - Oct 31 with 582 views | eirannach_gorm |
| Karl Bushby on 08:16 - Oct 31 by MattinLondon |
It is an incredible achievement but on quite a few levels it’s still not exactly a feel good story that will capture a lot of the media attention.
He left his son when he was only eight and in order to complete his adventure he has only seen him a few times over the course of almost thirty years. He’s only seen his mum a few times as well.
So to many, he abandoned his family for the sake of his own adventure- that’s why this story has lacked media coverage. But now he’s closer to home, that may well change. |
Amazing odyssey fuelled by a peculiar inner desire. The family thing maybe explained by this Wikipedia entry.
While serving as a soldier in Operation Banner in Northern Ireland in the early 1990s, Bushby met and married a woman from Belfast named Angela.They had one child, Adam, before divorcing in 1995. Since beginning the Goliath Expedition, Bushby has rarely seen his son, although Adam joined him briefly for part of his protest walk across the United States in 2014.
Bushby met his next partner, Catalina Estrada, while travelling in Medellín, Colombia, in 2000. He faced difficulties bringing Estrada with him on the later parts of his journey, particularly while travelling through Canada in 2003. By 2011 , Bushby and Estrada had broken up; Bushby later said that "you can't have a relationship on the road."
Clearly a very driven person who seems to have difficulties with close personal relationships. | | | |
| Karl Bushby on 10:00 - Oct 31 with 512 views | BasingstokeBlue |
> "I thought there would be a huge crowd when he landed in Dover but it was just a few people!"
The following is taken from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ ...
"Bushby reached the United Kingdom on 5 October (precisely 28 years after he left Hull in 1998), after his English Channel swim. He stepped onto Shakespeare Beach, south of Dover, after approximately four days of swimming and resting on support boats. He was welcomed on the beach by friends and family, including his father, former SAS soldier Keith Bushby, and filmmaker Werner Herzog. Bushby and his team intentionally kept the departure location and time of the swim private due to the potential safety issues arising from the publicity. The first media publications about the swim were made approximately 24 hours after he stepped onto British soil." |  |
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