Sunday, January 21, 2007

Our New Itinerary

7 June

Stockholm – Malmö, Malmö - Copenhagen

8 June

Stay in Copenhagen

9 June

Copenhagen – Berlin

10 June

Stay in Berlin*

11 June

Stay in Berlin

12 June

Berlin – Hamburg, Hamburg – Amsterdam

13 June

Stay in Amsterdam

14 June

Amsterdam – Luxembourg

15 June

Longboard through Luxembourg

16 June

Luxembourg – Paris

17 June

Stay in Paris

18 June

Stay in Paris

19 June

Paris – London

20 June

Stay in London

21 June

Stay in London

22 June

Stay in London

23 June

London – Toulon (France) via airplane

24 June

Longboard the "Alpes de Maritime" (France)

25 June

Longboard the "Alpes de Maritime" (France)

26 June

Longboard the "Alpes de Maritime" (France)

27 June

Toulon – Marseille, Marseille – Barcelona

28 June

Barcelona

29 June

Barcelona

30 June

Barcelona – Monaco

1 July

Longboard through Monaco, Nice and Antibes

2 July

Nice – Interlaken (Switzerland)

3 July

Stay Interlaken

4 July

Interlaken – Liechtenstein

5 July

Longboard through Liechtenstein

6 July

Liechtenstein – Milano, Milano – Rom

7 July

Stay in Rom

8 July

Stay in Rom

9 July

Stay in Rom

10 July

Stay in Rom

Logo


Our friend Patrick Webster has worked this logo for Board Europe. I must say I am impressed of the way he managed to capture our style so effectively in just a picture. Kudos to you man!

Weekend Celebrations


Partied this friday, celebrating our FlexDex Sponsorship. Great success!


Saturday we held a session at new found enormous garage at telefonplan. Hours well spent!

Sunday, January 14, 2007

With six months left to go, preparations are on the full run.


I am currently writing from a snowy and cold Sweden where the mere thought of longboarding feels very remote. However, Erik and I have instead occupied ourselves by working on our itinerary and contacting local boarders in the cities we are going to visit. We have had some success with this and we have managed to establish contacts in Amsterdam, England and Tuscany. We do, however, need many more so if you are interested in meeting up with us, don’t hesitate to contact us at boardeurope@gmail.com.



We have also ordered the Bible for backpackers, the Lonely Planet guide, “Europe on a shoestring” which hopefully will help us complete our itinerary and find the coolest spots. Although containing more than 1000 pages and having a weight of over 1 kg, I believe that it will prove to be an invaluable asset on our trip (If not, it will at least function as decent pillow.)



We have now also managed to send out most of our sponsor letters and we are pleased to announce to that we have received our first sponsor! The company which makes the renown “skate break” has decided to support us. So creds to them and a big thanks for helping us out! We will now, thanks to you, be able to skate all hills in a safe and efficient manner. Hopefully we will get them in a couple of weeks so we can try them out in our garage.



On Monday, I am going to contact Gainomax to see whether they are interested supporting us. Apparently they spend a huge part their budget on sponsorships. I just hope they see us as sufficiently “athletic”…



…Speaking of our “athletic physic”, our calves are starting to buff up since we have been training them ceaselessly for two months now in the gym. So we are hoping that they, by June, will be strong enough to carry us around Europe.



Oh yeah, we have also spoken a couple of English blokes who are planning on doing the same thing and we looking forward to meet up with them at some point. Check out their site at http://www.bwboardfree.co.uk/. Also, a Swede from Västerås contacted me the other week told me that he and two other guys are planning on doing something similar as well and wondered if we wanted to hook up somewhere along the run. I’m glad to see such an interest, and I’m guessing that we’ll have plenty of company on the way!



Well that’s the update for now, but please check back soon. The blog will be updated more frequently now when we are approaching THE date. Pictures and review of the skatebreak will be posted as soon as they arrive and we get a chance to try them out… So once again, stay tuned...



All the best,


Sebastian