my travelogue: October 2011

After such an exhausting video tour I was looking forward to our annual trip to Portugal. Me and a few friends have been going to Ericeira for a couple years now. October is usually a good time to go since the swell is pretty consistent and there are way less people in the water than in summer. Not this time though. Supertubos, where the "Rip Curl Pro" was going down, was good but way too big for us and all the other spots were just wind blown and messy.. Of course I would have been stoked if the surf was good but my first priority this time was just to take it easy and get some sleep, which worked out perfect! I only hung out for 6 days. We surfed a few new spots I had not been before so that was nice, but it was either too small or too big. Well, we had a lot of fun anyways. We took some nice and homoerotic pictures, went skating and played a lot of pool. I was lazy with snapping pictures so I don't have much to show off.

Lisbon sunset

Ericeira sunset

bird

Acs & Thaler

Thaler, Acs & Alex

He-Man

Talking about homos. Check out the guy in the back checking me out!

Supertubos was going off! Kelly Slater against Daniel Ross

Perfect A-frame

That's the place we stayed at, super sweet!

www.ecolodgesericeira.com

Nice bar and those barrels in the back are actually rooms!

BBQ

PROST! OVER AND OUT!

I spend two weeks touring with the team and our new movie "Standing Sideways" all over Europe. It was pretty much the most exhausting trip I've ever done! Never the less it was super fun!!

Just a few facts: Within two weeks we visited 10 different countries, we drove 2854 km with the most pimp bus ever and we flew 3598 km! I had every single day at least a few alcoholic beverages and I slept maximum 4 hours a day. Since I was the only TM who did the whole tour I was the guy in charge for the riders which means a lot of nursing and organizing. The first premiere was in Antwerp and the tour ended in Moscow. Now my body needs a detox and I'm ready for some chill time before the season kicks off! Here is a few random photos from each spot..

BARCELONA

Danny's first trip to Barcelona!

A snowboarders daily routine.

Soren is the king of this city!

We of course went straight for some Tapas

You gotta love this town for the street beers! From the evening on, at all the busy places there is dudes, mostly from Pakistan, selling beer for 1€ and it's absolutely legal to drink in public!

First thing the next day we visited the BCN Burton office.

We played some Tischfußball and Mikkel entertained us with his guitar.

After we hooked up with the Methodmag crew we went for a quick sight seeing session.

The guys went swimming.

Afterwards we checked out a few of the numerous skate spots.

Mikkel in action

After all these exhausting exercises we had a few sangrias and that's when Danny, Mikey and Mikkel got the idea to get a tattoo! One of Soren's buddies was happy to help them out. It was Danny's first one so that's what he got as a tattoo as well "FIRST". Mikey got himself a dagger on his chest and Mikkel got a proper size skull with indian feathers.

Pre-party drinks and snacks next to our bus.

Methodmag, Burton Spain and friends on the way to the venue.

Prost!

"Apollo" was the club we had the premiere at.

pretty busy

Mark tossing some products in the crowd

So Soren is not only our rep for Spain, him and his partner Max are as well the founders of the biggest party "Nasty Monday" in BCN! If you ever go to Barcelona make sure to go to that party, it's off the hook!

Danny was happy that they served Budweiser in the club.

The boss!

Pompi is the man!

cute

Claudia, Crista and the guy with piss on his shirt!

Steffi enjoying it!

Soren the Yedi

Holy mother of legs! Sollors was definitely enjoying the dance floor and the view.

It was a heart breaker that we had to leave Barcelona straight from the party at 4am.

Way to end the party..

ANNECY

After a few hours of sleep we arrived in France.

The average age of the people living in Annecy is around 55 so you can imagine how the party ended up being, super mellow.. Though it's a very beautiful city and the premiere was on a boat which was really nice.

very nice lake

good but rough bowl

artsy

Koum and the crew!

sweet little boat by the way

Oli and Niels were our hosts at the party.

MILAN

Chillin in the bus on the way to Milan.

Welcome to bella Italia!

Milan is a rad city!

Hippie style!

Business style!

Danny had a shoot for Lifestyle Magazin so they got him a couple of suits.

Weird name for a snowboard shop..

signing session #1

Steffi and Andro are all about peace.

Quick mini ramp session.

signing session #2

"Pedro" is a shop right down town Milan. It's probably 3 by 2 meters!

Mikkel got himself a new Gibson guitar that same day so him and Danny jammed for us!

check it out: www.rollingstonemagazine.it

good style

This bus is the bausss!

The crew at the venue.

The crowd was obviously stoked on the movie!

..and the product

Peace out Milano!

INNSBRUCK

Welcome to the european Burton headquarter!

Berni a.k.a. "Promohure" Hörtnagel

eeöööhhh

ZURICH

At Freestyle.ch we premiered the movie right at the venue. It's such a good event, especially when it's good weather since it's right next to the lake.

Grilo upside down!

Seppe was killing it as usually.

There is always so many people, it's awesome!

1st Halldor, 2nd Seppe and 3rd Stale

PRAG

I had never been to Prag before so I was excited to finally go there. It is such nice city. So many cool buildings and things to check out.

Charles bridge

Gargoyles

brutal

Jussi, Kazu & Ethan

That guy got super pissed at Jussi cause he made him move.

hanging in there

A few "Standing Sideways" copies.

Luka and Terje super stoked....NOT!

Ethan and Jussi super stoked....YES!

interesting

Traditional dinner and traditional way to drink extremely strong Schnaps!

nice

Way to get a signature!

This place was going off!

Ethan, Kazu, Mark, Jussi and Terje

Marian "the boss" chillin backstage with our lady in charge of PR Birgit, Kazu and Jussi

Czech is well known for it's fine beer but all we got was this stuff! CHEERS!

WARSAW

At most of the stops we would go for a nice traditional dinner with our local reps and friends and we always had to drink hard liqueur with them. It's not like you have a choice. This restaurant was really cool. They had their own Vodka distillery so we of course had to try every single one they had..