Showing posts with label travel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label travel. Show all posts

Thursday, 9 April 2015

Easter in Val d'Isère



OK, time to blog about a travel experience again(!) - sorry if making you jealous. I had my last wave/dose of winter for this crazy season of mine placed in Val d'Isère, France. I joined my old good Chalmers friends Jesper and Axel (and his Charlotte) from Gothenburg, Sweden, for this trip. In Val d'Isère we met up with Björn, Emelie and other nice Swedish people. I rented really good ("Premium") skies and went "all-in" for an energetic & unforgettable ski vacation.


For doing "offpist" for the third time in my life I'm actually really impressed about how damn talented I am. Still, I start to wonder why I missed out on this fun activity all my years as youth and adult. Stuck in old habits and patterns I guess. Anyhow, we had 4,5 fantastic days consisting of some training, a lot of skiing, after ski, really good dinners/food, party and less sleep.

Here are ten favorite photos for me to remember from and for you other to get inspired by (for 146 more photos click here)

A nice 3D map in our apartment -Here, in Val d'Isère, we are right now!

Without Jesper I would not enjoy this trip at all. He is so fun to hang around with!

The first after ski had a relatively fancy level.

Here I got the weekly need of meat #stek

Emelie shows the way to do offpist so sexy! Halleluja moment(?)!

COCORICO - The after ski place #1 in Val d'Isère

A good (or bad?) thing with having beard and doing offpist skiing in a lot of new snow ;-)

Offpist area (like a virgin).

Sweet XXL hamburger at fancy restaurant up in the slopes.

After 4,5 days of fantastic skiing and social things Jesper & I took it piano some minutes...
Stay tuned for youtube video (coming up soon) from the fantastic offpist and normal skiing. Next season we already decided to go to Japan Jan/Feb. Looking forward... :-)

Sunday, 25 January 2015

Australia (Tasmania, Sydney, Canberra & Melbourne) & Dubai

I just had to go to on a long trip and take out two vacation weeks from 2014 and topped up with an extra week from 2015. I did some orienteering races (World Cup) until the 10th (the first and only orientering participation for 2015?) and a lot of touristing after that - and wow what a nice trip it turned out to be...

I flew with Emirates over Dubai to Melbourne. Back and forth costed it roughly 1900€, but it is so worth it as it is the fastest and most satisfying trip I can imagine. First destination was 1) Tasmania, 2) Sydney, 3) Canberra, 4) Merimbula, 5) Melbourne and last but lost least 6) Dubai. Here you find a short pptx-presentation with photos and reflections:



Top 10 photos below and you find more photos here. Maps with gps routes will be uploaded here in short.

First summer sun in 2015 - on a orienteering competition area on Tasmania
I went on an unforgetteble road trip with these crazy O-guys! (Filip, Jerker & Mårten)
Sydney from above the Sky tower. The heat was on (33 degrees C)
My good old frend Seb (and his Beth) delivering good stuff from the bbq down in Merimbula
Watching a cricket game and enjoying it so much was something that surprised me!
Watching Roger Federer winning the 2nd round during Australian Open in Melbourne
Dubai is one big expansion place..something you could do with a lot of money...
We went up in Top Sky in Burj Kalifa (148th floor, 555 m.a.s.l.) - amazing.
The other skyscrapes down there look so small!
Last day/evening in Dubai, enjoyed some photoshooting in the sunset.