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Slideshow in Kiel, Germany

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The show in Kiel, my birth town, was kindly introduced by Eckehard Schirmer, an experienced sea kayaker himself and the Referent Küstenfahrt sowie Ressortleiter Freizeitsport in the Landeskanuverband Schleswig-Holstein. Eckehard was one of my first mentors when I started the “serious” sea kayaking about 7 years ago. Thanks, Eckehard! He seemed to enjoy to check […]

21Apr

Slideshow in my Hometown Husum, Germany

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Jörg Knorr, an experienced expedition paddler himself, was so nice to introduce my talk to the audience. Thanks very much, Jörg! The venue for the first German talk in Husum in the Hotel “Altes Gymnasium” was very stylish, almost like an ancient church 🙂 – good Jörg was walking behind and not besides me through the narrow gap in the […]

19Apr

Sea Kayaking UK Symposium Anglesey

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I’m happy to announce I’ll be the Saturday night keynote speaker at the Sea Kayaking UK Symposium in Anglesey. What I’ll be talking about? Well…OZ…??? Come and join the symposium! It’s a great place to meet experienced and advanced paddlers from all over the world.

31Mar

Outer Edge Adventure Magazine article

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Patrick Kinsella from Outer Edge Adventure Magazine Australia was so kind to provide his recent story for my blog online! Please check out his great magazine! Just click on the pics to enlarge and to be able to read after zoomed in!

29Mar

Slideshow “Race around Australia” in Holland

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Hi, Dutch paddlers! please keep the 27th of April open – the venue for my talk in Holland will be announced soon! It will central in Holland, somewhere around Utrecht. www.Kanoshop.nl is organizing the talk and will do the pre-selling of the tickets as well. Thanks to Oskar being busy with it! See you all soon!

16Mar

German TV Magazine: DAS! Abendstudio NDR3

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Update: Here’s the recorded Interview-link, in the NDR-Mediathek! (Still all German…thanks for the link, Lutz!) Please click on the big button “mediathek starten”, wait a few seconds until it loads, put in the search box my full name and the link will appear. It is (fortunately…) cut down to the interview footage only, without the interrupting […]

27Dec

some statistics

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Trip dates: 18.01.2009 – 15.12.2009 solo paddling all days Trip days: 332 Paddling days: 245 Rest days: 87 Trip hrs: 7968 Paddling hrs: 2637,5 avg. hrs per paddling day: 10,8 hrs 33% water, 33% sleep, 33% land (incl. rest days) loaded (unsupported) paddling days: 191 (78 %) unloaded (supported) paddling days: 54 (22 %) paddling […]

23Dec

Back in (c)old Germany

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Jörg Hofferbert, one of my most active blog readers, waited at Hamburg airport to greet me with a special made German x-mas “Lebkuchenherz”. Thanks, Jörg! my mom was another “fan”, waiting at the airport… my mom’s creative artwork to greet me my shop manager Ilona Sierks, mom and Ilona’s husband Udo preparing the arrival ceremony (Thanks […]

23Dec

Talk in Sydney

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Rob Mercer and Mark Sundin, organizers of my Sydney talk. Thanks, Rob and Mark! “Grashopper” Andre Janecki took a great series of pictures from my talk in Sydney on saturday night. Please have a look at his flickr album here. He allowed me to share my favourites here with you on my site. Thanks, Andre! […]

23Dec

Bridge Climb in Sydney

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A BIG thanks to Phil Newman, maintenance manager of Bridge Climb Sydney ! Phil invited me alredy month ago to join a climb on the Sydney Harbor Bridge. Now it was “THE” chance to give it a go on Saturday morning, as Greg and I were driving to Sydney on Friday anyway. It was a beautiful, sunny […]