Day 1 - Trondheim - Copenhagen - Tokyo


Instead of  7 hours waiting at Copenhagen airport for our connection flight, we went for some sightseeing. Metro from the airport into the city centre every 5 minutes, 15 min journey...thinking about Prague airport.
under the bridge on the way to Christiania
the city was hot, people swimming in the harbour
a lot of bikes of course
Airbus A330 to Tokyo
8 hours in the air and still in Russia, huge country
finally reaching Tokyo Main Train station
the keys from our super smal room in a flat above a local shop in Tsukiji
trying not to sleep after long journey, we went for a walk in Tsukiji quater. This is the bank of  Sumida river. Safety first - local gardeners in helmets...
It is amazing how the streets are clean...and there are almost no waste baskets...strange
Safety first
probably a dangerous place where pedestrians are attacking cyclists
local monsters

hmmm...where is a beer?
electricity everywhere

Lets go to Asia

Heading to Japan and China in couple of hours. Follow our trip, exclusively on Pøkblok. Starting song here.


Fishing with Adam

To start, play this

and now the story of the weekend...  The offer to spend a weekend in Flatanger with Adam Ondra is hard to refuse. I have not been climbing almost a year, nevertheless there still is some rock in my soul. Here is the story:
as the bridge on the way to Flatanger is closed during the night, we slept somewhere in the forest. Adam brought 60 kg of baggage (a lot of historic fishing equipment from Fery) , so he was tired...
view from the cave was as usuall...perfect
and rock was huge as usuall too- try to find a climber
Adam immediately went under one of his projects...very strange looking roof corner (left diagonal above Adam, crossing The Change), just 15m of climbing, but it is combination of 8b, 8B+ and 8B+ = one of the hardest ones in the world. On the first look it is strange, on second absolutly unique and cool.
It was a lot of fun just to belay. And he also forced me to climb some routes...thanks!
Evening and my part of the show - to get dinner. Done.
On Sunday, Adam felt weak (hopefully not after that cod liver we had). So after couple of tries in the project, we escaped from the cave and headed into Aurora Borealis wall.
It is an amazing wall, with some potential for easy routes too
Adam is preparing for OS of Crack the Back (8c). Cool fight, done in couple of minutes. Personal opinion - 8b+
maybe he is not so weak today...lets go into Froskekongen (8b). Big jump at the start and another OS. Personal opinion - 8b+
view I had most of the time
to finish that weak day, Adam redpointed his old 8c project (Open Your Eyes) - freak slab next to the farm, to the right of the beautiful fingercrack...and went to do campus...I opened the bottle of wine
and tried some midnight fishing
on my way back home, I tried to hike and catch some trout in Litleheggsjøen. After long hike I found shallow lake and no fish. But nice landscape

Catalonia

Intensive short holiday in Catalonia, visiting Barcelona and Palafrugell region...
enjoying the sun and sandy beaches
hunting for food in La Boqueria
and eating, a lot...
observing locals
and life
is that Gaudi too?

dice of champagne bottles on the roof
and more colours on the terrace
one of the rivers of Girona
Girona's bridge from mister Eiffel
in Cadaques
Adria explaining wave's theory on a remote beach
relaxed morning on the terrace of Adria's place in Llafranc
remote beach at Cala del Crit
"Laying bishop" - a famous mountain range in the area

kayaking from S'Encalladora (stop at Platja Fonda)
local man Adria on his terrace
and Belma on another terrace
view from Far de Sant Sebastiå
and back home...

to find our first northern tomato