HOW did you treat your beloved for Valentine’s Day?
Box of chocolates? Flowers? A romantic meal?
How about rowing more than 2,000 miles to get to a dream Caribbean wedding?
Because that’s exactly what former Neyland and Milford Haven adventurer Neil Ward did.
Neil, aged 38, had promised fiancee Louise Robertston a Barbados wedding and decided to arrive in style by rowing across the Atlantic with 11 colleagues taking part in the Atlantic Rowing Race.
Neil and the Britannia III team took 39 days to arrive – inadvertently making the groom more than a day late.
But the date was moved and the happy couple were able to take their vows.
Neil, who attended Neyland Junior and Milford Haven Grammar schools, said: “Seeing Louise at the port was the only incentive I needed to keep rowing.”
The adventurer now plans to tackle Mount Everest, but he added: “My first adventure was looking for crabs at Sandy Haven!”
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