A journey is over. Let the journey begin!

It ain't even half-easy trying to sum up my past five months in New Zealand. It has been more a journey than a semester at a university, as I quite often found myself in a car or a bus going somewhere to do something.
A constant change of landscapes and scenarios passing by. A metaphor for how life can be I guess, where we're free to stop whenever we want to. At the moment I'm not very keen at stopping at all, but just keep on going. I guess that is what we did when we were in New Zealand; we just kept on going. We tried to fill every hour, and quite often it lead to some rather busy days. Worth it? For sure!







Do something small, do something big. Most importantly; do something you enjoy.

The summer is certainly affected by the NZ travelmania. Just after I got back home it was onto a late-night week shift at the good ol' work place, meaning that weekends got rather occupied. Last weekend was spent chilling out in Kragerø, getting some real norwegian summer. Good people, good beer, games and fun. I've got tons of photos of people from the party; but in these days you never know who wants to be "on the web" or not. So I'll spare the portraits for later. Meanwhile, here are some general shots of the mood, the early-mornings and the late-night sunset.



This weekend it's Oppdal for pre-race riding, and then it all goes tootilitoo. The following 3 weeks or so I'll be travelling a little less than 3500kms around south-, east- and west- Norway.
It goes something like this: Lillehammer-Oppdal-Lillehammer-Kristiansand-Lillehammer-Oppdal-Lillehammer-Bergen-Lillehammer-Siljan-Lillehammer-Bergen.

Home!

Got home on monday evening, and it has taken me a few days to get my body into the -10 hours and the everlasting summer-light. I'll be back soon with last words and photos from NZ, as well as updates from Norway. Now it's DH and norwegian beers that's on the agenda...
Thanks to all of you great Kiwi's for making my stay in NZ so good! You're all welcome to drop by the northern hemisphere!

Chur!

VEKO

While I've been packing stuff and sorting out some final practicalities down here, some of you might have been enjoying the Extreme Sports Week (Veko) at Voss, Norway.
It is probably one of my favourite festivals, packed with events and concerts, surrounded by beautiful scenery and super good vibes. I felt slightly gutted not being there this year, but I'll be back next summer!

Here are some random shots from Veko'07










You should also watch Torbjørn Fjellestad's film from the river surf this year. A sweet little edit, with great cinematography!

River Surfing from Torbjørn Fjellestad on Vimeo.

Small Penis and Nemesis

While we've been down here the graduating class at Film- and Television-production in Bergen have been producing some really good short films!

They're def. worth a watch, and it almost scares me knowing that we're about to start with our own graduation productions. It will be difficult to produce something as good as this, but we will do our very best! For now though, lean back and enjoy these great vids!

Small Penis from Espen Hobbesland on Vimeo.

Mt. Maunganui - sweet days

Four days of super chill at Cam's casa, hanging out and taking it easy. Night out at the pub, bluebird days, watching the Hangover being hungover, spa, mini-surf, sushi, photos, super-nice people, couple of bargains: Goodtimes. Thanks to all of you! Best of luck with recording to ze boyz in Fletcher, and to Cam and Craig: Hope you catch some sweet waves in OZ. See you guys in Europe and Norwegen!

Instead of dropping any more words I'll just post some photos from the days in the Mt.

To uker...

To uker. Det er vel omtrent ganske nøyaktig sånn cirka den tiden som er igjen av oppholdet her nede. Siden innleveringen av siste skoleoppgave har det blitt en del reising rundt nordøya, med en obligatorisk retur til Coromandel og en svipptur nedom Wellington.

Coromandel bød på et par dager med kveldssurf, og tur til Cathedral Cove og Hot Water Beach.
Surfen var nokså rotete og klønete, med bølger i alle retninger, samt et par gode runder i den gode gamle vaskemaskina. Ikke noe er som å bli flippet fremover mens du ligger på et brett. Bilder av surf følger m.a.o. ikke.
CC og HWB derimot; væsjego':










På tirsdag som var pakket jeg bilen med sykkelutstyr og tannkost. Målet var Wellington, som ligger på sørspissen av nordøya. Planen var å henge med en gjeng syklister jeg møtte under uni. games, og å la de vise meg litt av syklinga som kystbyen byr på. Turen ned tok meg gjennom alle årstider, med høstfarger/regn/sludd/hagl/snø/sommerlyder. Til tross for at øya nettop hadde blitt truffet av en nokså kald vind endte det opp med å bli tre dager med skyfri og strålende sykling på dirtjumps, sti og rufsete utforløyper. Kort oppsumert så var det mildt sagt rått å se hva som fantes rundt Wellington sentrum. Fabler om å returnere til NZ i desember 2010, for å tilbringe 4mnd her med sykling i den nasjonale utforserien og for generell sommerhygge.















Yap, that's it for nå. Returnerer snart med flere ord og flere bilder. Forhåpentligvis duket for litt surf i Bay of Plenty denne uka, også må'n vel starte å pakke snart. Hundreogørten kilo bagasje som skal hjem...