Off to Greece

Well I thought a week in Tarifa would be enough to get some wind, but I was wrong. I got one sail on a 5.7m and a 98L freeride board and a kite. I was hoping for some out of control 3.7m days but maybe next time. Ahead of me know is 3 days of travel to greece. Most would fly but I still have days left on my eurail pass so I may as well use them up before they expire.

Till Greece...

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Krazy.....

In tarifa you have two winds. The levanter or the poniente. The levanter usually blows its tits off and comes from the east and no one is on the beach because you get sand blasted. The poniente comes from the west and is on the lightish side which is ideal for kite surfing and chilling on the beach. Have a guess which wind was blowing today from the following picture.....?

Now if I ask an Australian what is the most unique thing about Europeans at the beach, what do you think it would be?

And just to prove it is windy here, heres something to prove it.


The pic hasn't uploaded to well but there are a sh!t load of windmills.

Tarifa....Not Windy

Well apparently I should have been here for the last 3 weeks when the Levante (East) blew every day- averaging around 30 knots. Currently, the wind is coming from the other direction- Poniente (West)- and that means light winds. That gave me a chance to catch a few tourustie things as shown in this picture. This was taken from a whale and dolphin cruise.


The next couple of days aren't looking too flash hot but they are predicting some wind.

This is a shot from yesterday when there was some wind. I arrived in Tarifa in the afternoon and didn't have time to hire any gear. Pissed!

Madrid

Only here for a night as i am on my way to Tarifa. Really nice city but can be a little pricey. I just had a quick walk around the gardens and a few sites. The gardens are amazing and they are so well maintained- all of Madrid is. The picture below is the Estanque which is where the royals use to go for relaxing and entertainment. The would hold mini marine wars on the man made lake.







Some monument. Thought it looked cool.

Thats it for now. I better get some more food as my waist line is reducing which i didn´t think was possible. All my shorts and pants are falling off me.

Depressing...

Barcelona

If you want to party, Barcelona is the town. Although it is a a lot more expensive than i thought it would be, the clubs and night life is pumping every night. The Barcelonians attitude to life is party 1st, and work 2nd. The usually preceedings for day in Barcelona would be:
1) Get out of bed around 12 to 1pm after a big night
2) Bum around for a bit, get something to eat and head to the beach around 3pm
4) Head back to hostel around 6-7, have dinner and go to bed around 10pm for a quick nap
5) Wake up at 11pm, and go to a bar or pre drink at hostel. A 1 litre of beer costs 1 euro!
6) The clubs in Barcelona don´t open till 2am in the morning and they don´t get going to 3am.
7) Party to 6ish and head home for sleep.



Without doubt the hottest woman (6´3")I have seen in my life. I had to turn her down because she wasn´t really my type. She took it pretty bad.



When we arrived in Barcelona, we didn´t know there was a massive rave party weekend so every hostel was booked out. Luckily, or unluckily, we found a small apartment with 10 people sleeping in including 2 mexicans, a squatter and 7 backpackers. Tim, Fab and myself had a room with two bunks in it which didn´t even have enough room to walk between them. The room also had no ventilation or windows. As you could imagine, it was quite stuffy and a bit on the smelly side since the temp doesn´t get below 20 at night.



A shot of Barcelona from the waterfront. Really cool marina and waterfront. Barcelona is a really beautiful city. I imagined is was going to be pretty dirty and a bit 3rd worldish but I was wrong.

Mother F*&"/er

Yes thats right, we have a Mother Fooker among us. I am not willing to say who it was, but i can assure you it wasn´t tim or myself. On our first night in Barcelona, a local took fancy in our future to be MF (she spoke no english). The night ended a little scarey with the MF who ended up getting chased out of her apartment by the Father (they were separated)...shit you not. The MF played it a little more low key in Barcelona after that.

Perpignan....Torture

You would think the south west of france, on the Mediterranean would be perfect for a relaxing week to recover from the previous 2 weeks of going out.

Wrong.

What I was confronted with was big long beaches where it was blowing it tits off for 6 straight days only not being able to hire or burrow any windsurfing or kiting gear. The other odd feature of perpignan is it must be the only european city that hasn't heard of football or even the world cup. Fabain has been pulling his hair out because there was a total of one bar in a city with a population of 170,000 that shows the football when the feel like it! Other than that, perpignan is a relatively quiet town with a lot of beach resorts. For the last couple of days, we have been pretty much just working on our tans and eating some healthy food for a change to try and get us fully fit to battle the night life of Spain.














A good solid 25 knots without a windsurfing hire venue
anyway......

In no particular order

St Peters



We reached 200 km/hr down the freeway only to be overtaken by a motorcycle with a kid on the back!



A family party



Family dinner. Roughly 20 courses!



Funny stuff



1st night in Florence! 2 Friendly Americans



At the beach in Rome



The daughter of the US Ambassador to the UN!



Another American.....


No Need for a description



Abruzzo. 70km out of Rome

Latest Update

It been a while since i have written my last email. For the last week and a half, a few interesting things have happened. We have been in vienna and prague. Tim and myself have been out of action due to different reasons and Fabian has taken full advantage. I came down with a sore throat and a bit of a cold that lastest what seemed like forever. My throat was sore for a good 8 to 10 days which really pissed me off as i couldn't really go out at night as i was too stuffed and couldn't talk. It didn't stop me from meeting a girl who's father was the US Ambassador to the UN in Vienna! Tim on the other hand, sustained a injury of a different nature in Vienna. Tim being the last one off the mark, had a two day sex romp which resulted in a busted penis. He was diagnosed with a busted blood vessel and as a result, his dick was black....pictures to follow. The doctor swore it was due to extreme overdose of masturbation, but i guess i can't say anything as i was lying in bed being sick.

Fabian on the other hand, had the biggiest tantrum in prague i have ever seen after picking up a very attractive american only to be denied at the 11th hour when he previously mentioned to her that he was the lead singer in a band. She then demanded that he should sing a song which resulted in running for her hostel. The next night, Fabian redemed himself very well and successfully strengthened the relationship between germans and Australians.

We are now in the south of France at Perpignan. The weather is warm, i am feeling better and Tims injury has subsided so its game on again. The girls are arriving today (some of fabian and tims friends) so keep tuned for the next update.

Being Back in Melbourne

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Farking hell its cold. I thought i left the Australian winter to warm and sunshine....Wrong. We were in Munich for 3 days and i never saw sunlight, got rained on every time we went outside, caught a cold, and the temperature never got above 10 degrees. The city is nice, exactly like melbourne but the weather sucks and the locals need to learn how to J-Walk.

We then headed off Vienna were the temp increases to a whopping 13 degrees and a little less rain. We are staying at a hostel called Wombat, can never escape Australia, which has a really cool vibe. All the boys on the trip have finally got on the scoreboard as well which has eased tensions as i got off to a mini flyer.

I plan to put some photo's up soon but it is hard to find a internet cafe where i can reduce the resoultion of photo's so i can upload them. So if any of you know how, can you please let me know.

Thats all for now. We are off the prague tomorrow or monday. Can't wait.

Florence

Apparently like Rome, Florence has many amazing sites to see which i managed not to see one in two days!

We got into florence at around 6pm and went straight into a dodgy hostel where we prepared ourselves for a pub crawl which started at 8. It was free drinks for a hour which got us all in a good mood and chatting to all the american students. Lucky for us, we were the only aussies on the pub crawl so we were very popular. By the 3rd stop, i had met a friendly american called Kelly. Lets just say for the next 2 days, i didn't see much of Florence...

Where Chapel Street Originated!

Just when i thought i was as far away from Australia as possible, we end up and this tiny little country town in Abruzzo (outside Rome) where the local past time is to do laps between the round abouts on anything that has a engine. The more up market vehicles have halegon lights on the bumpers and dashes and all the local kids even have the standard chapel street 17 inch sub woofers! We were fortunate enough to have a ride in a chapel street cruiser where our driver could very skillfully prepare a joint while driving stoned, which everyone in Italy does.

We visited another very popular beach resort called Pescara where there is about 1 percent of the beach available to the public. To my amazement, there was a windsurfing school there but the very light winds wasn't enough to suck me in.