Daone Comp 2010

Gosh, it has been some days since the last post here. I haven't had internet closeby and the internet is quite slow...
Daone was so much fun, partying with the Russians (crazy Vodka!), speedclimbing and leadclimbing which was so impressive and motivating.
The day started with the dudes doing their lead climbing. Corne did his best but didn't end up very high. Jurgen tried really hard to fix the undercling, but also fell off pretty early in the route.
Dennis had a different qualification route, and climbed easily through the first drytooling part and had a big struggle in the ice roof. He fell popping off with his feet and handing just on one axe, out of energy, power to get on. But out of all of us he did best!
Later came the speed for me. I failed (I found). I was slow, not used to the snowy crumbly ice and kept popping off with my feet. I didn't want to fall so climbed slow, resulting in a 9th place. No finals for me.
Later around three I got in the isolation for the semi-finals lead climbing. I warmed up well, talked a lot with the other girls and guys and felt pretty ok, not too nervous.
When I got in the isolation where you prepare your stuff, the light and heating went down. So it got quite cold and dark. Not the best seconds before a attempt. But I still felt fine.
I struggled in the route, not yet used to kicking my crampons in the wood and matching iceaxes on one hand and clipping. I got pretty pumped, not so much in my underarms, but more in my hands! When I started on the roof I was so pumped in my hands that I fell off, leaving my axes in the ice.
My mission was to reach at least the roof and get to the rest, but just before the good rest I fell off. Too bad, but not too bad :) I landed in 14th place, which wasn't even last place!
The good thing was, that I gained so much experience and motivation to train hard and loads for the next competition year!
In the evening we had the disaster climbing of the dudes in the speed.
Corne fell. So was out :( Then Jurgen had to climb. He was pretty promising when we trained in the Globe in Holland. So I was really hoping the best for him. But he hit his arm with his iceaxe (meat-hook) Had to quit, get to first aid and get some stitches in his arm. Damn...
The next day we amazed us about some Korean climber and of course Markus Bendler both dominating the field. And then we drove off to Kandersteg in Swiss.
We dropped off Jurgen at the airport, because with his arm he wouldn't be able to climb on.
It was painful to leave him there. We were just starting to form a team, and with a three it's always different then with a team of four.
Jurgen, we miss you here!

Daone Ceremony

Arrived in the Hotel with Corne and just attended the extremely patriotic Italian ceremony.
Bla, bla, bla in Italian, children in Italian colours, old men with Tiroler hats and feathers, fire brigade kids and adults and the local-forest-army-dudes playing some music and a procession through the little village of Daone.
I have some video's, but the connection here is so slow that I can't add anything :(
Tomorrow at 10:30 the speed climbing for the women starts, and the isolation for the men opens at 8. Pretty early...and later on the day I have the lead. Busy day...
I quite excited about it all. Loads of eastern European gilrs competing, 9 from Russia (is that allowed? *Checking the UIAA rules...*) and some other countries.
They first thought I was from Iceland. I wasn't actually allowed to compete (Iceland is not member of the UIAA, why why why...?) and they were worried becuase they couldn't find an Icelandic flag for the opening ceremony. Funny Italians... After showing my Dutch passport it was all ok again and they smiled again (instead of talking emotional Italian).
Now I'll go asleep early, to be fresh for tomorrows comp!

First real iceclimb in Europe mainland!

We arrived in Daone on Wednesday evening and slept next to the big competition wall. We stole some electricity and slept well, though, we felt our throats next day (cold?)
The next day we wanted to try our brand new Black Diamon Fusion axes on the backside of the snow-speed-wall, but then we heard there was real iceclimbing. So we left for a WI5 and climbed until dark 5 pitches and abseiled back in the dark. It was extremely cold but fun!

On the road

Tuesday Dennis and me left for Italy. Really late (thanks to the brilliant Dutch train system) but we didn't really care.
We drove through Austra with a little sleep stop somewhere in Germany and a emergency stop after the Fernpass (the brakes started to complain).
Dennis' van is brilliant. With two sleeping compartments, heating, good music and loads of fun movies. We watched Planet Terror and laughed our ass off.

Off to Italy!

I drove around half of the Netherlands yesterday. Picking up iceaxes (thanks Tim!), picking up a Barryvox and then iceclimbing with the dudes in the Globe. And luckily we climb for free Skabbi...
We did some speed climbing with the Icelandic Hedinn axes and they actually work quite ok. Still have to get used to them :) But even with girly pink tape they still look like brutal meat-crooks. I was pretty satisfied with my climbing, 10.7 seconds (see video) to get up. I could do better with more practice, but for a first time... I fell a lot, looked at my shoes every time and had difficulties reading the route which resulted in my axes popping out. Here also a little video of Jurgen doing good, with 6.8 seconds he was the fastest of us four today. (Knowing that Dennis just came back from Kirov with just 6 hours of air plane sleep over the last 48 hours...)
Dennis and me will drive off today around 11/12. I hope, now packing all my stuff, which looks impossible!

One day left in Holland

Today I guess will be the last day in the Netherlands before I'll leave for Daone.
Really exciting. I'm still very very insecure about my iceclimbing capabilities and train as much as I can. But for my feeling, one month for changing from sportsclimber into world-class iceclimber is a bit too short...
Luckily I got some great advice from a couple Duch iceclimber who've joined World Cups before.
(Thanks Dennis, Niels and Fedor!) Now I know better how to figure-of-4 and what moves I can expect in a World Cup...
Before I had my Icelanders, who were always willing to go iceclimbing with me, especially Siggi was a good reference. He is stronger, very fanatic and doesn't treat me like a 'weak woman' and expected me to do just the same as the guys. I like that attitude, that attitude that is often missing I find when you get to a climbing hall. Most people just watch you climb, stare and don't even dare to talk to you. Which can be very annoying. I just need people to train with!
At the moment one of the Dutch climbers, Dennis is on his way back from Kirov, Russia from the World Cup there in -25 Celcius.
He's just started a blog as well, you can read his adventures on http://dennisvanhoek.nl/
Here some video's of us training at Niels' drytool cave.

IceSurfing

In the Netherlands it's rare nowadays to have so much ice and snow. But when there is ice, the whole country get's crazy for iceskating on natural ice. Even if the conditions are not good, they still try to get on the ice.
So, my brother and me as well.
Only this time a bit different. The Dutch Championships Icesurfing were cancelled so we tried out old-fasioned method at Muiderberg.
In the morning we searched for hours and hours to find a 'pollepel' (big soup-serving spoon). It took us a drive to three different shopping centers and a massive search on the attic before we found one. Just one...And we're with 2. But we just went!
The whole day we stood on the ice with wind and snow and enjoyed ourselves with the most simple icesurfing system ever: the pollepel.
We got many reactions from "levensgevaarlijk", to "natural born inventors". And best of all was, that we went much faster then all the kite-boarders with their ski's and snowboards and that whilst the ice was really snowy. The video is my brother showing how to be fast on the ice (me filming).

Boreal late Christmas package

Finally, after e-mailing, calling, more mailing and waiting. I now have my new shoes. The Ice Mutant fits perfectly and I tried them straight away in the Globe in Den Haag. Here a little movie on my first first try with the shoes on really really hard ice in the Globe "ískápur". (Diederik filming)
My brother went with me and had his first real iceclimbing experience.
Though, the climbing shoes are a bit too small :( so I have to change them somehow/somewhere. But that's ok, at least it's all here now (after more then 3 months)

Sinterklaas-Christmas-New Year-Birthday-Surprises

Sometimes my family is a bit strange, but that's fun.
We celebrated all big yearly feasts two days after new-years. With surprises and a poem. I drew my brother and had a brilliant idea for a surprise-creation and on the way, with a bit of help from some friends, created a funny poem.
I got a poem from my dad, very sweet and personal and a car-surprise with a new flash-card for my camera. My dad can make poems like no other, exactly grabbing my feelings and even make it in a rhyme.
And of course got some other things, even from Iceland. The best was the little Anasazi rock-magnet (not the 5.10 shoes, a real piece of rock I mean).
Here the pic's.

Drytooling

Here in Holland theres loads of ice now. But it's all pretty horizontal. Good for iceskating, bad for iceclimbing. So we went indoors and enjoyed the hospitality at Niels' place.
Valdi even did better then most of us with hanging on axes! I was just jealous!
Here further not much to train, loads of things to do every day, climbing gyms far away and actually very very expensive. I climb 5 times a week, sometimes 6. It costs between 9 and 12 Euro's per person to climb, Let's say 10 Euro per time makes 50 to 60 euro's a week! Do that for a month and it's more then you're monthly rent or fee at the campsite of Siurana (where the climbing is a lot better then here indoors)
But well, we'll leave for Italy this Tuesday, hopefully more ice, boulders and fun there :)

Happy new Year!

So, 2009 is gone and we're already more then a week in 2010 (weird number) I've been busy iceclimbing, drytooling, bouldering and climbing all around in Holland. And of course enjoyed the nice weather here: really cold and snowy.
Do you have any good plans for this new year? Loosing weight, climbing even harder, find a girlfriend...?
I'm pretty simple and just try a lot, try a lot of climbing, do a lot of travelling and just have loads of fun! No real plans so far. But I'm sort of lucky: I don't smoke, I'm not fat, I already do sports so don't have to start them up :)

More sportswoman of the year awards?

Gosh, got a phonecall, actually, Valdi got a phonecall. If I'd like to put together a little presentation with pictures of me. For the Sports-woman-of-the-year-awards in Hafnarfjordur, Iceland. That's the town where I always teach climbing.

So, does that mean another price?

Would be really cool...I'm almost nervous now :)

Too bad though, I'm in Holland now and the awards-thing is tomorrow, in Iceland...

Here the presentation (not much though, I feel a bit arrogant, putting pics of myself together...)

Snowy Christmas

Here in Holland there is snow. Even much more then in Reykjavik now. (Weird)
A couple days ago I went for a walk with my dad, we talked a lot and practised our hobby (and my dad's addiction). Photography. We saw some classical Dutch winter-views and took some nice pictures. Here some "raw pictures", with an edge around it and some adjusting they look really nice...I'll show them later on the website zoom.nl
Afterwards we went for a climb in the gym in Bussum. I was proud of having my dad as a belayer!
Now, Valdi is in Holland too, so we can have some fun together.
He's been really lazy today though: slept till 12 'o clock. I hope he'll be active enough to go for a climb :D or at least play belay-bitch, tryggjatik, zekerteef.

Petzl picture

So sweet: on the Petzl website there is a nice competition. You can win your own weight in Petzl gear.
And of course I'd love to get a new headlight or some! And actually I really do need a new headlight (lost mine, guess somebody borrowed my light...hey dude, could you please give back my light?)
So...please all vote on my nice northern light picture :D
Ow yes, and there is copyright on this picture, so don't use it yourself for any commercial shit...

Byebye Iceland, hello icy Holland

Yesterday around 10 local Dutch time I finally arrived in the Netherlands!
I left 7 o clock in the morning from Iceland after a short but fun stay in our Van at the Reykjanes peninsula.
Due to the two flocks of snow in London and the two and a half in Holland, it took me a record time to get to Holland.
The pilots of IcelandExpress were joking about the 2mm snow layer in Icelandic, but were really serious in the English comments about the landing times and possible cancellation of the flight.
I was lucky and could get my flight to Amsterdam, but on the screen I saw more and more canceled flights.
My parents and brother we so happy to see me again. The last time I visited the Netherlands was more then 9 months ago. So I really had to catch up a bit.
Today I went shopping with my mum in a close by town called Bussum.
We bought a pair of trousers together, yes together. We apparently have the same size, so we share.
And of course we did some Christmas shopping. Getting more and more presents under the tree.
After that all we went to Albert Heijn, my favorite Dutch supermarket. They just sell all the food you need and it's tasteful, much better then most Icelandic vegetables, bread and diaries.
Be bought the ingredients for 'boerenkool' (farmers cabbage) a dish made with a green lettuce likely cabbage cooked with mashed potatoes, brown sauce from meat (not the fake tasteless stuff from a package) and a 'rookworst (smoke sausage). I loved it!

íþróttakona ársins

Sweet, some already knew, but I really had no idea I was respected this much in Fimleikahusid Bjork!
I'm sportswoman of the year over all sporting departments located in FBjork! (Which is, gymnastics, climbing, taekwondo and the general department with adult-gymnastics, fit-kid and more)
I felt flattered by the little speech about me; a summing of the things I've done with climbing and for FBjork last year.
The real feast will be on the 29th of December, when all good sporters in the town of Hafnarfjordur will be rewarded on the sports gala of the year, organized by the town.
Unfortunately I won't be in Iceland on the 29th. I hope Sjofn will take the credits for me.
(Oh, yes, and I still have a blue eye...)

Blue eye baby

Went to gymnastics yesterday. (As I always do 3 times a week).
I did a flip, flipped too late, because my start was wrong and landed with my knee in my eye in the mattress.
The result is free make-up on one eye, beautiful...

Nailed tires

Changed the tires on my bike, but actually don't know why.
It's around 8 degrees (celcius) here, no snow, no ice, not even close to being winter :(
Luckily I have to study really hard now, so no time for outdoor ice anyway.
Can't wait till next weekend: finished with all studying and freezing cold!

Hedinn, metal-heroes

For iceclimbing you need iceaxes. For speedclimbing you need special weird little iceaxes (I don't understand the sports of speedclimbing)
So how do you get this axes. Option 1: buy them, pay a fortune and realise speedclimbing is not your thing...
Option 2: go to Hedinn and meet exactly the right guy at the right time.
They made me a new model, combined out of a Russian drawing (no joke) and some examples of other axes.
For me, for free.
Thanks a lot Hedinn!

Training

And I was thinking we only had Klifurhusid to train drytooling. (On ancient bad old climbing holds) but it turns out to be that HSSR has way better conditions. One of the Icelandic search and rescue organisations (Iceland doesn't have an army, so all helping activities goes through those organisations)
Here Robbi (one of THE Icelandic iceclimbers) leading on the M6-wall.
I now meet with the real iceclimbers here at least once a week.

First time outdoors

And yes, finally, finally I'll go onto real ice. Gummi, Vidar, Haukur and Ivar took me to Eyafjallajokull (drive inwards to Thorsmork) not the best conditions ever, because the were no frozen waterfalls at all, but it was something...
The glacier was moving a lot, big blocks of ice fell of almost daily and we were climbing in between them (with Hari Berger in our minds)
Gummi was so good to take some beautiful pictures of us all, and I was so lucky to get in the national newspaper! See the article on mbl.is
Thanks for the coffee Haukur!

Iceclimbing

Men, what a funny development here.
I'll go to the World Cup Iceclimbing this January!
I describe myself nowadays as pure sportsclimber who happens to do bouldering as well.
But last winter I got triggered again to go out for a colder climb: iceclimbing.
And now I apparently do so well that I get into World Cup's!
Time to forget my Moonboard for a bit (never leave it completely) and start hanging on my axes!

Iceland food crisis

You know, IceSave and more here in Iceland has quite a big impact. It's pretty irritating how everything goes here. People have massive loans, massive cars, but complain about the taxes. But on the other hand, people like me, no loan, no big car also have to pay those taxes. On the food for example we now have even more tax. So basic supermarket food for one day can cost you over 25 euros per person. Weekly I shop for at about 25.000 kronur just food (around 120 euro's) I don't even think about eating out, or buying other things like clothing. Quite worrying for Christmas though...
Eating out wasn't so good here anyway (except the Italian restaurant in Akureyri) even Mac Donald's has been changed into some sucky "Metro". Bad dry tasteless mini burgers for way too much (fries, coke, burger for 8 Euro's). I really think I'll go to Mac Donald's when I get to Holland.

Ja.is

Just put myself in the Icelandic phonebook with my mobile number and e-mail and my profession: climber
Check out ja.is and send me a text :)

Icelandic Post

Welcome back.
There has been so much going on in the last months that I decided to take a blog-break.
But, now that I'll be traveling a lot, I'll be back here again.
As Icelanders don't complain too much about the rules, I decided to complain. (Great)
I ordered some books from Bol.com for my book about climbing.
Paid, including Dutch taxes, or "BTW" and paid for the sending to Iceland.
Received some books in the last weeks, but not all. I got a message that some books had arrived and had to pick them up at the post-office (I paid for home-sending of the books, not post-office sending)
For one package I suddenly had to pay toll. The other package (with the same amount of books) was toll-free. The previous packages also have been toll-free.
So, I asked, why do I have to pay toll over this sending. The lady (of the post office, so not of the toll) answered...
"Well, you've been lucky with the previous sendings. They pick out packages and sometimes you pay, and sometimes you don't have to pay. It depends also a bit on which toll employee you have, some are nice, some are very strict." I was surprised by her honest answer and remembered my sending with iceaxes, which got me over 1000 Euro's in toll.
I paid the toll, as discussion wouldn't really help.
I asked how to avoid the toll. She told me: "Well, best is to send the package to friends or family abroad, for example when you buy things from e-Bay. Then they can put it in a box and sent it to you as private sending. The toll doesn't check very often private sendings."
I told her, 'waauw, that is actually quite corrupt' and I smiled and walked with the package.
Actually I was just angry, so if I understand it right it's a gamble to pay toll or not, or you have to have friends working at the toll.
Sometimes I really think Iceland is a Third-World-Country...

Iceclimbing

Hi everybody,
long time no write...
I just am too busy doing things. Like school, work and climbing.
And as the rocks here are all frozen or wet, I decide to dive into another side of the climbing sports: iceclimbing.
See the results on Picasa http://picasaweb.google.com/der.steen/IceclimbingGrundarfjRUrMRarhyrnaIceland#
and more :)
Greets
Marianne

Iceland has become a Russian colony

Today President Putin of Russia gave Iceland a nice birthday-present. (Putin has his birthday today) (http://mbl.is/mm/frettir/innlent/2008/10/07/gudni_og_putin/)
He sponsored Iceland with 78 billion Krónur. (Probably a loan) To save the banks and economy in Iceland.
The Icelandic coin (Krónur) has seriously gone down the last weeks and it doesn't seem to stabilize.
Banks get in trouble, pensions get in trouble and as more then half of the population got a loan at a foreign bank, the whole country seems to be bankrupt.
I went to do some shopping yesterday and saw my favorite food getting almost twice as expensive. A lot of food here is imported from Europe and the States and they, in some cases, even stopped importing it.
Great, now I have an ok job but no money to spend in Europe. In other words: do you live in Europe, fly for 300 Euros for a long weekend to Iceland including hotel and all...(See Icelandair.nl)

Shampoo

I knew for a year that Iceland is expensive. Especially expensive with the most nonsense things like bread (3 euros for a normal supermarket bread), haricots vert (at least 5 euros for 100g.) and so on, but shampoo, just simple cheap simple shampoo 7 EUROS?! Next time my bag is going to be filled with shampoo from the Netherlands, proper cheap shampoo...never realised Iceland was that expensive...

BAZ and PromoTop

Klimax ll
Exactly one weekend ago we had our first competition in Belgium. It was raining everywhere even in France so we decided to go and climb indoors instead. We drove with our own borrowed car (thanks mum&dad) all the way to Klimax ll in Puurs close to Antwerp.

Not a good start
We arrived in time but still a bit late. We had hardly any time to warm up and I was first to climb at the females route. The girl who showed the route hadn't climbed for 3 months (I heard that afterwards) and couldn't do the whole route. It looked super difficult and I wasn't even sure I could do the first move as it looked so hard when she was doing it. She took a lot of time and I was completely cold when I stepped into the route. No way my fingers warmed up so I got pumped and on a sudden move I just dropped because I didn't feel the hold I was holding. It got me pissed. I found it unfair I had to go first after such a bad example. All the other climbers could now profit from my attempt, I didn't have this profit form the girl who showed the route...
Ok second route...I was too late, nobody called our names and the whole thing was a bit chaotic. I did a bit better then before but because I was in such a hurry in the start I wasn't very concentrated. I fell but was just good enough to get into the Promo finals/Top half finals.

Valdi the Viking ;)
Valdi did just very well and didn't have the unlucky things I was dealing with. He topped both qualifications and was easily though to the next round.

Finals
Again some hassle with the isolation yes/no/yes/no/yes you have to be in the isolation...Handy. As I was qualified last I had to go first again and again because of all the trouble I wasn't very warm. So I did sort of ok and landed 8th in Top class and 3th in Promo class. Not too bad after not climbing on plastic for a couple months.
Valdi did extremely well and impressed a lot by ending 3th in the Top class! We won Duvel (local Belgian beer) and a nice medal. And went to Hrappur to have some more Belgian fun. (We drove four times the wrong way but finally made it to exit number 1.)
Boulderen aan Zee (BAZ)
The weekend before that we were on the beach of Scheveningen between loads and loads of big boulder blocks. I was extremely tired of our trip to the Netherlands and the four days of climbing before that. Valdimar didn't feel well at all, he actually was just ill. The sun was burning the whole day and we got even browner then we were before.
More meeting friends then climbing
It was really cool to see all the people again. Arjen came by with his girl and Herrie joined too. We climbed as hard as we could but being tired, used to soft long limestone routes and actually ill we didn't have the prestations we expected of ourselves. I saw all the girls climbing and they are good, like high world-cup level good. They trained for this, I only trained for long routes. On the end of the day it was so that I or júst had enough points or júst not...So I filled in my list with too less points so I wouldn't land in the finals. I just didn't dare to take up against those girls...
Valdi was still not feeling well and had the shits. We looked at the party in the night but didn't join. We slept in between the boulders and enjoyed the sun on the next day.

Sprain
I tried one 7a boulder where I think I sprained my shoulder a bit. I still feel it and know I have to rest. The funny this is that the boulder was put up by a guy of which I said before he makes boulders which injure people. He builds long moves on tiny footholds without any thechnical moves, just ugly pulling I would say. And that's exactly what I did one move too many...(Thanks Bas, (funny ha, that's the guys name you get it: Bas at the BAZ, haha. But unless his bad routesetting he's a nice guy) Injuries get me crazy because I NEED to climb (I'm not addicted or something...) I'll just realx a bit for this week and see how it feels.
Though we were unlucky we enjoyed being at the BAZ, it's such an amazing setup this cool blocks on the beach all those people it's just pure entertainment.

Picca's from the climbing in Klimax, as I was climbing myself so much I don have any BAZ pictures :(

Back in Iceland

Delayed/missed flights...
After a whole lot of climbing I back in Iceland.
We arrived last Thursday after missing two (!!!) flights and spending more then € 300,- per person extra on a new ticket...
My school started last Monday so I was already skipping a whole week and I din want to miss anything more. Though I would have loved to stay longer in the Netherlands. Join some more comps, and spend more time with my friends which are all getting babies and chickas. (Well done guys just keep on fucking around :)

Céüse
In Céüse we had 4 days completely for ourselves without anybody to take care of or to be around with, as we (Valdi and me) met in Céüse two years ago we really needed this time. We spent it with climbing for the whole day. Walking up Céüse takes at about one hour only up-hill walking and then the climbing isn easy either. So after those days we didn have any energy at all. It especially was to be seen on me. I felt quit some pressure on me and wasn satisfied with my climbing. I really wanted to climb more then just 7b+. I feel I can do so much more then that! But I didn have enough time to get in shape and I am apparently a very emotional climber. If everything around me doesn;t work the way I want it, I can't focus on my climbing.
At least I learned my lesson for next time: never, never, never go on holiday with a group of three in which one person doesn have as much expirience as the other two...

I want more, I just want to climb...
Now that I am in Iceland I feel I'm not finished with the outdoor climbing season yet. I'm strong, motivated and feel I can do very well so I want to go again. Siurana, Terradets...just anywhere where there are big limestone cliffs.
I now have to find enough sponsoring and work next to my studies to be able to climb that magic number I want to climb so badly...

Netherlands
For two weeks we spent our time in the Netherlands with competitions, friends, indoorclimbing and my mum, dad and brother.
I was relieved to be in the Netherlands as I hadn't seen my friends for such a long time.
We smoked some green things in Amsterdam with our Finnish friend, we climbed on the BAZ (Bouldering at Zea) and had some indoor climbing meetings with some of my friends Gerdien, Franc with their amazing little creature Ling and later on actually finally on the last moment with Gerb, Sanan and their little half Thai girl Annika. I suddenly found babies cuite and sweet and wanted to have such a thing for myself. But ehhh, not now, sorry no time for kids.
We even spent a night in a mega villa in Brussels after our comp in Belgium (I'll write in the next posting about the two comps) with Hrappur and his family. We felt so welcome and were amazed about their hospitality. (Takk!!!) It's cool and inspiring to see what people do for living, like Hrappur and his love for sound and what he can make out of the weirdest materials like cat-toilet-rock thingies (what's the English name for a toilet for cats to do their shit and piss on???)

New home?
Now I am typing this all whils Valdi is working in the climbing gym. We looked at a new room for us both. It's difficult to make descisions about that...The room is an ok size but in a cellar with not so much light.
The facilities are ok as we have our own kitchen and toilet and stuff and all inclusive for a very friendly price (in Icelandic terms friendly...)
But, the room we have now is so much lighter bigger and Valdi actually maybe (I don't really know) prefers to stay here with his mum, sis and bro. I just need a place for myself with my own little things, own fridge, own room, own kitchen and more like that. I just need some space. So Icelanders if you know somewhere a nice studio not too far from Klifurhúsið, please let me know :)
Ok, time to add some piccas of Céüse, the Netherlands and later on of the comps we joined.


The frog we found during nightclimbing in Céüse; Valdi asleep on our way from Céüse to Nice and the Netherlands; Getting high on green stuff with Mikkó my brother and Valdi at Amsterdam; Me windsurfing at Pampushaven; Windmills by night at Kinderdijk